User:DoctorJ 37/Alcoholic Soft Ice

Alcoholic Soft Ice is an invention that provides a ready-to-consume, freezable, alcoholic beverage composed of water, sugars, alcohol, flavorants and caboxymethylcellulose.

Inventors
All From Connecticut
 * Robert S. Ashmont
 * Thomas C. Bibeau
 * Anthony Livaich
 * Nancy J. McCormick

Patented
December 13, 1988 by the USA

Summary of the Invention
This invention relates to a ready-to-consume alcoholic beverage which forms a soft ice at freezer temperatures. Once the invention is ready to be in consumer or commercial freezers, the consumer will soon be able to buy ready-to-consume packages to take-home in the form of a slush. Since this product is formulated for substantial dilution prior to consumption, mouth feel, taste and other consumer perceptions of the slush product, per se, are not a substantial consideration in the product formulation. One can buy the beverage in one, two, three liter containers. With large containers, the consumer into a smaller container; ice cube trey, and simply place it into the freezer for 6-8 hours in a typical home freezer, at a temperature within 0-10 Fahrenheit. The result being that the beverage can be readily consumed in the soft ice form or spooned into a glass to provide an enhancement in an alcoholic beverage. This invention is also spurred the curiosity of making hard frozen food that contains alcohol.

Alcoholic Soft Ice in the form of beer
Beer generally is comprised of less alcohol content than other harder liquors, which allows beer and even wine to freeze to a relatively harder state. As of right now Coors in the UK has launched a project to achieve Sub Zero beer in looks to target an emerging trend for colder beer. The crux of the technology is the formation of soft ice that has been frozen as lager crystals in the top of the beer glass. This current method is still being adopted by other companies and is not currently nationwide.

Advantage of Alcoholic Soft Ice
Alcoholic Soft Ice could be used as a basic premise to a method of fighting alcohol-related problems, as it can be used as a transition from heavy drinking. With the amount of alcohol limited to just whats in the Soft Ice, one can theoretically reduce the risk of alcohol-related problems by simply going from lots of alcohol in one drink to Alcoholic Soft Ice to nothing.