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malt

[mawlt] / mɔlt /
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A beloved producer in Melbourne, Australia, Starward’s signature Nova single malt is aged in Australian red wine barrels.

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

“I think it will be good for us,” Hoak said, while hauling 55-pound bags of malt.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

Mama came in holding a tray piled high with bottles of soft and malt drinks lying on their sides.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When it first appeared on shelves most of the country wasn’t clamoring for domestic malts, and so the Notch’s arrival went largely ignored by a bourbon-swigging public.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

"The reduction of trade barriers in the Republic of Korea will further enhance Scotch Whisky's access to an important market, especially for single malts."

From BBC Dec. 15, 2025

"With no Australian malt available, the prices of other malts has become crazy."

From Reuters Sep. 29, 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

All around us, families were eating burgers and drinking malts and sodas.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

When brewing beer, brewers extract sugars from malted barley — barley grains that have been partially germinated and then dried to make available the starches in the grain and enzymes that break them down.

From Salon Dec. 13, 2023

On the front counter there are two oversized jars full of gumballs, jawbreakers, and malted milk balls.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

But in the absence of Australian malting barley, many Chinese craft brewers turned to alternatives such as French or Canadian malt.

From Reuters Sep. 29, 2023

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

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

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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