malt
IPA: mˈɔɫt
noun
- Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
- (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
- Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
- Initialism of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.
verb
- (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
- (intransitive) To become malt.
- (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.
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Examples of "malt" in Sentences
- Sift the remaining malt and flour together.
- A malt shake is a milk shake but made with malt in it.
- Mild ales are generally based on mild malt or pale malt.
- Single Malt whisky is malt whisky from a single distillery.
- Laphroaig is also the name of the Islay single malt Scotch whisky.
- Uses for Malted Grains Malted grains aren't just used in beer making.
- Drying malt over an open flame may impart a smoky character to the malt.
- A handful of sorghum malt and a handful of mealie malt is added to the vat.
- CMB retailers may sell cereal malt beverages or nonalcoholic malt beverages.
- The malt portion of the distillery was closed in 1975 and demolished in 1976.
- Etc: Often comes from Bamberg, where malt is dried with the smoke of local beech wood.
- If for no other reason, a good single malt is VERY expensive and it would be a total waste of money.
- The dried malt is then ground and mixed with hot water, which extracts the dextrin and converts it to a sugar, maltose.
- Suppose some wackjob blogs that “out of desperation, I tried bathing in malt vinegar three times daily for a week, and it has cured my afib!”
- The only conceivable explanation I can think of is they were not drenched in malt vinegar and swimming in salt – which is the way God meant for them to be eaten.
- The fresh barley (a standard two-row malting variety) adds a nice underpinning of sweetness, but the malt is a supporting player in this beer; the hops are the headliners.
- The flavor of chocolate and malt is a winning combination in any form, but incorporating chunks of malted milk balls adds just enough of the familiar texture of those classic candies to take this ultra-creamy ice cream over the top.
- New-York deserve much credit for the high improvement they have made in the quality of their malt liquors within a few years, which seem to justify the hope that they will continue these advances to excellence, until they realise the opinion of Combrune and others, that it is possible to produce a "_malt wine_."