Alcoholic beverage dispensing system

Abstract

An alcoholic beverage dispensing system comprising a mother bag having and a plurality of pouches contained within the mother bag. One or more of the pouches includes an alcoholic beverage.

1 . An alcoholic beverage dispensing system comprising:
 a mother bag that can be opened; and   a plurality of pouches contained within the mother bag, one or more of the pouches including an alcoholic beverage.   
   
   
       2 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the mother bag includes a gusset that enables the bag to be self-supporting in an upright position. 
   
   
       3 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the mother bag lacks a gusset. 
   
   
       4 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein at least some of the pouches include a perforated tear seam which enables the alcoholic beverage to be releasably contained within the pouch so that when the tear seam is at least partially opened, the beverage may be poured from the pouch. 
   
   
       5 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1 , where
 V n =volume of mother bag   V p =average volume of each pouch in the mother bag, and   n=number of pouches in the mother bag then,
   V n ≧n×V p    
   or
   n≈V n /V p . 
   
   
   
       6 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the mother bag has a re-sealable opening. 
   
   
       7 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the same amount of alcohol is contained in each of the pouches. 
   
   
       8 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the amount of alcohol contained in at least some of the pouches is unequal. 
   
   
       9 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 8 , where:
 V n =volume of mother bag   X 1 =number of pouches of volume  1  (VI)   X 2 =number of pouches of volume  2  (V 2 )   X n =number of pouches of volume n (V n ) then,
   V n ≈Σ(X 1 V 1 +X 2 V 2 + . . . +X n V n ) 
   where 1<n<240.   
   
   
       10 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 9 , wherein V 1 =50 ml, X=10, V 2 =25 ml, and Y=10, so that V n  is equal to 750 ml. 
   
   
       11 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1 , wherein the amount of alcohol contained in at least some of the pouches is more than one shot of alcohol. 
   
   
       12 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1 , wherein the amount of alcohol contained in each pouch is one shot of alcohol. 
   
   
       13 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1 , wherein the alcoholic beverage contained in at least some of the pouches is selected from the group consisting of those alcohols listed in Table 1 and mixtures thereof. 
   
   
       14 . The alcoholic beverage dispensing system of  claim 1  wherein the pouches are vacuum-packed within the mother bag so that there is no air between the outside of the pouches and the inside of the mother bag. 
   
   
       15 . An alcoholic beverage dispensing system comprising a plurality of pouches that are interconnected by perforations so that the pouches can be removed individually or severally. 
   
   
       16 . An alcoholic beverage dispensing system comprising a plurality of pouches, each having a long edge and a short edge, wherein the long edges are separated by perforations and one small edge of each pouch is contiguous with one or more continuous strips so that the pouches may be removed from the one or more strips, while other pouches remain detachably attached thereto. 
   
   
       17 . An alcoholic beverage dispensing system comprised of a plurality of triangular pouches wherein two of the sides of at least some of the pouches are connected to a neighboring pouch by perforations.