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malt

[mawlt] / mɔlt /
NOUN
ale
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“I think that the Notch is the most Scotch-like American single malt in flavor profile,” said Adam Polonski, co-founder of bottling house Lost Lantern Whiskey.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Dessert revives malt bread as French toast alongside sea buckthorn and pumpkin held through autumn and sharpened into sorbet.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

Watt says they would sleep only a few hours a night, often on sacks of malt on the brewery floor, and told of the financial hardship they faced.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2026

Founded in 1933 as E. & J. Gallo Winery, the company in 2024 renamed itself to reflect its portfolio, which by then had grown beyond wine to include distilled spirits, malt beverages and ready-to-drink cocktails.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

After a hairdressing, for example, he meets her at the drugstore for her vanilla malt and his cherry smash.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The U.S. isn’t the only producer of single malts outside traditional powerhouses like Scotland, Ireland and Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Many recent technological advances in production help nonalcoholic beer maintain fermentation characteristics derived from the malts, hops and yeast, thus providing a more balanced and pleasant product that tastes like "real" beer.

From Salon Dec. 13, 2023

Long viewed as an inferior copycat of Scotch, Japanese single malts and blended whiskies started racking up international awards around 2008, sparking intense global demand that effectively drank the supply dry by around 2015.

From Reuters Nov. 21, 2023

The team hopes the research will create new single malts for Edinburgh's Holyrood Distillery.

From BBC Jan. 1, 2023

A hamburger and a malt, a cold malt and fries—two hamburgers and two malts and fries— and he would sit and eat and tell everybody about the storm and the killer whales.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen

But the federal government didn’t even recognize American single malt—whiskey made from 100% malted barley produced at one U.S. distillery—as a spirits category until 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

Firebrand does that by adding less malted barley - the main source of sugar which ferments into alcohol.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2024

“And the Welsh have everything that we have: They have decent water, they have malted barley, and they have yeast, so they can make good whisky.”

From New York Times Jan. 14, 2024

The malted barley then goes into the mash.

From Salon Dec. 13, 2023

“Have what you want, but have a malted shake for me.”

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

"At Berryfields, we found evidence of malting and brewing and the tanks used to steep the grain before processing," he said.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2024

In the three years prior to the tariffs, China bought between 86% and 91% of Australia's malting barley exports, Australian government data shows.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2023

After the malting operation closed, the building fell into disrepair.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2022

The malting step adds flavor but also a few days to the recipe.

From Seattle Times Mar. 22, 2022

And besides, with July nearly upon them, the three roommates were malting plans for going home.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson




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