PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beer taste beverage of low alcohol content in which the fishy-smelling of the hop is suppressed and which has a crispy bitterness and a beer-like flavor.SOLUTION: The beer taste beverage is a beer taste beverage whose alcohol content is less than 1 mass%, that contains the following constituents (A), (B), (C) and (D): (A) hop extract, (B) polymeric catechin by 0.008 to 0.1 mass%, (C) non-polymeric catechin, and (D) carbon dioxide gas, and in which the mass ratio of the (B) polymeric catechin to (C) non-polymeric catechin [(B)/(C)] is 1 to 4.5 and the pH is 3 to 4.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】ホップの生臭さが抑制され、キレの良い苦味及びビールらしい香味を有するアルコール低含有ビアテイスト飲料を提供すること。【解決手段】次の成分(A)、(B)、(C)及び(D);(A)ホップエキス、(B)重合カテキン類 0.008~0.1質量%、(C)非重合体カテキン類、及び(D)炭酸ガスを含有し、(B)重合カテキン類と(C)非重合体カテキン類との質量比〔(B)/(C)〕が1~4.5であり、かつpH3~4である、アルコール含有量が1質量%未満のビアテイスト飲料。【選択図】なし
