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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

Born in 1932 in South Africa to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants who ran a malt business, Kirsh ventured into grain milling and then distribution, according to news reports.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Pike perch tartare from Lake Oulujärvi rests on malt bread with capers and dill oil and a whisper of pine tar.

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

Lose a litde weight maybe, but the first hamburger and a malt and fries will bring it right back.

From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

From BBC Sep. 3, 2025

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

For example, Amazon in 2019 offered “Maisel Day” to promote its comedy drama “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” with 1950s-inspired pricing on malts and movie tickets.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 11, 2022

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

Without that moisture, the candy turns into a crispy structure with an interior texture that resembles a chocolate malted ball.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

“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

There are six flavors — two vegan, two not, two seasonal — and the dairy-based vanilla and malted chocolate swirl cone is an almost-preposterous upgrade in texture and flavor compared to the fast food standard.

From Seattle Times Jul. 4, 2023

Bunny was the only one of us who ever drank malted milk.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"One of the classic areas is malting and brewing, if you look at Roman Britain you see next to nothing about this, yet people must have been drinking beer."

From BBC Aug. 10, 2024

Additionally, its small size means it falls through the perforations at the bottoms of malting kettles designed to accommodate larger barley kernels.

From Salon Sep. 21, 2023

Established in 1868, it is the oldest malting plant in the country and one of the oldest in the world.

From Reuters Jan. 2, 2023

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

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2022

He walked back to Strawberry and began malting the hissing noises that grooms make.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis




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