It is intended to provide fermented malt drinks with a lessened
purine compound content and a process for producing the same, more specifically, a process for producing a fermented malt drink for example, beer, low-malt beer wherein
purine compounds are selectively, efficiently and effectively eliminated, and fermented malt drinks with a lessened
purine compound content thus produced. It is found out that a fermented malt drink with a lessened purine compound content can be efficiently and effectively produced by, in the process of producing a fermented malt drink such as beer or low-malt beer, treating the wort with an adsorbent capable of selectively adsorbing purine compounds in particular,
activated carbon to thereby selectively adsorb and eliminate the purine compounds in the wort. As the
activated carbon to be used herein, it is particularly efficacious to employ one having an average pore size of from 1 to 3.5 nm. The treatment with the adsorbent can be carried out by, for example, using a column treatment or separating the adsorbent after contact with a
definite period of time.