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malt

noun as in ale

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The new Coors offering isn’t classified as a fortified wine, but rather as a malt beverage—never mind that the alcohol comes from fermented cane sugar, not malted grains.

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The men joked about whether they could have a drink in hospital - when Mr Shinda's daughter said her father "likes his malts".

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The drink was a Laphroaig whisky - a smoky, peaty Scottish malt, like pouring a wistful but rather melancholy highland walk into a tumbler.

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Sir Geoff's academic work saw him invent the barley abrasion process - which involves deliberately damaging the protective husk of grains to speed up the process of malting.

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Missing maps include a malt whisky map of Scotland, and several maps relating to Gogerddan, the principal estate of the old county of Cardiganshire in the 17th century.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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