PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an unfermented beer-taste beverage that has a beer-like bitterness, and to provide a method for producing the same.SOLUTION: Provided are: an unfermented beer-taste beverage comprising a caramel pigment and 1 kind or more bitterness ingredients selected from quasier, quinine, kina skin extract, red tea polyphenol, naringin, dandelion, swertia herb, guarana, yuzu polyphenol and chlorogenic acid other than hop derived ingredients as a raw material, as well as having a color saturation of 12 to 50 and a method for producing unfermented beer-taste beverage including a step of preparing a raw material containing a caramel colorant, a bitterness ingredient other than a hop-derived ingredient, other drink additives, and a liquid raw material, and a step of blending a caramel pigment into the raw material such that the color saturation of said beverage is within the range of 12 to 50.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】ビールらしい苦味を有する未発酵のビールテイスト飲料とその製造方法の提供。【解決手段】原材料としてカラメル色素と、ホップ由来成分以外のクワッシャー、キニーネ、キナ皮抽出物、コウチャポリフェノール、ナリンジン、ダンデライオン、センブリ、ガラナ、ユズポリフェノールおよびクロロゲン酸から選択される1種以上の苦味成分とを含んでなり、かつ、飲料の彩度が12~50である、未発酵のビールテイスト飲料。カラメル色素、ホップ由来成分以外の苦味成分、他の飲料用添加剤及び液体原料を含む原材料を調合し、該飲料の彩度が12~50の範囲内となるようにカラメル色素を原材料に配合する、未発酵のビールテイスト飲料の製造方法。【選択図】なし
