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malt (môlt)

noun

  1. barley or other grain softened by soaking in water until it sprouts and then kiln-dried: used for brewing and distilling certain alcoholic beverages or liquors
  2. a beverage or liquor made from malt, esp. beer, ale, or the like
  3. ☆ Informal malted milk

Etymology: ME malte < OE mealt, akin to Ger malz < IE *mel-d, soft < base *mel-, to crush, grind > melt, mill

adjective

made with malt

transitive verb

  1. to change (barley, etc.) into malt or something maltlike
  2. to treat or prepare (milk, etc.) with malt or malt extract

intransitive verb

  1. to be changed into malt or something maltlike
  2. to change barley, etc. into malt

malt Synonyms

malt

n.

slops, malt liquor, ale; see beer.

malt Usage Examples

Object

  • barley: THE Cuthbert family have grown malting barley in the Bow of Fife for over 60 years.
  • wheat: The true name of this type of bread is 'brown bread with malted wheat ' .

Converse of object

  • vat: Vatted Malt Such a malt is a blend of single malts.
  • roast: It is also invariably darker than bitter through the use of a higher rate of roasted malt.

Adjective modifier

  • peated: The product, Glenisla, was distilled from peated malt, the peat being shipped from Shetland.
  • Lowland: It is a logical " next step up " from a lighter Lowland malt.
  • unpeated: For the other 12 weeks, they used an unpeated malt.
  • single: Or you can enjoy a pint or a single malt in the cozy bar or the beer garden.
  • pale: Pale malt from silos is augmented by special malts from the malt store.

Modifies a noun

  • whiskey: Mix the heather honey with the malt whiskey in a mixing bowl.
  • distillery: My feeling is that England needs a malt whiskey distillery.
  • whiskey: With malt whiskey the heating of the kiln will come from peat.
  • scotch: Is it something to do with the fact that proper single malt scotch whiskey is always ten years old, never nine or eleven?
  • agar: Can be grown on malt agar or agar with oatmeal.
  • Scotch: The very name evokes the warmth of mellow, single malt Scotch whiskey.

Noun used with modifier

  • islay: Whiskey, especially Islay malts, has been a passion for far longer.
  • barley: Offer it warm with rice syrup or barley malt added.
  • cask: Be sure to drink the contents, as cask strength malt does not like to be stored in a hip flask for too long.
  • highland: The barrels are not re-made as is common practice. tastings 18 yr old, 86 proof Perhaps the defining highland malt.
  • roast: Copper Dragon Black Gold 3.7 % A dark style with a rich roast malt character from this newly established regional brewer in Skipton.
malt Quotes

Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built onTrent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)