How to Use malt in a Sentence

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  • Played with the amount of malt to get the sweetness level right.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Garnish with a few whole malt balls and caramelized crispies.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Start with the blue crab beignets, which are served with malt vinegar aioli.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This is a blended malt whisky drawn from what the distillery calls the top 1% of its casks.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Hops are kept to a minimum and used to balance out the sweetness of the malt.
    — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The whiskey boasts notes of malt, chocolate and caramel before the notes of oak and vanilla of the bourbon shine through.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Balanced and with a lively mid palate with malt balls, red fruit.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • In a small saucepan over low heat, whisk together the heavy cream and malt powder.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • There’s less alcohol than in most IPAs, less of a malt base than in most pale ales.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In a saucepan, heat the cream with the malt extract until steaming but not boiling.
    — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • No malt is used, but there is a bit of fruit juice and cane sugar added to the final product.
    — Lauren Hubbard, townandcountrymag.com, 9 June 2023
  • If a 311-liter bottle of top-notch single-malt Scotch can’t top that, who knows what can.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 May 2022
  • The bar uses Tullamore Dew, a blend of pot-still, malt and grain whiskies.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • When making brose, Miss MacLehose Is apt to add malt whisky.
    — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
  • Add malt drink mix, vanilla, and salt; beat on low 2 minutes.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Flaky fish with coleslaw, tartar sauce, fries and malt vinegar.
    — The Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The bottle of the record-setting single-malt whisky is one of no more than a dozen still believed to be on the market.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Like ales, lagers can be light or dark depending on how the grain malt is roasted.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Dave overheard him talking about his plight at the local malt shop and offered to give him a ride to REI.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The Frosty Shake flavor is made with a milk chocolate shake base with touches of vanilla and malt.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2023
  • They’re also known for producing some of the world’s best single-malt whisky.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Amber ale beer: Used to deglaze the pan along with water; adding robust flavor and notes of malt.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This ode to Dia De Los Muertos is brewed with pilsner malt, flaked corn and noble hops.
    — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • The price of malt, a key ingredient in beer, has doubled, and aluminum costs have jumped more than 50%.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • It’s brewed with European Pilsner malt, maize, rice, and a select blend of hops.
    — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Roasted malts yield smooth coffee and cocoa flavors, laced with a splash of cream.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Our testers loved the subtle malt flavor and light bitterness.
    — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Balanced with malt base, hoppy, but bitterness is not over the top.
    — cleveland, 8 May 2022
  • The flavor profile—less smoky than scotch, less sweet than bourbon—provides toasty malt notes and spice with just a hint for fruit.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Zacherle sources locally for his gruits, going so far as to make some of his own malt.
    — Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2022
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  • The grassy notes in the finish stem from the corn, rye, and malted barley grain recipe.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The results is malted and crispy on the outside and light on the inside.
    — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Just as in the soda fountain drink, the main source of malt flavor for the ice cream is malted milk powder.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
  • This crisply hopped ale is brewed from barley grown in Maine and malted in South Egremont.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In principle, any grain can be malted: wheat, rye, corn, and rice.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
  • The barley is grown and malted, then raked across the floor every four hours for five days to germinate.
    — David Coggins, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Given its ideal climate for malting, Tassie’s Whisky Trail is a good place to start.
    — Ewen Bell, National Geographic, 29 Dec. 2019
  • There are usually three grains in mash bills: corn, rye or wheat, and malted barley.
    — Karen Locke, GQ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Malted grain is a key ingredient in the beer-brewing process.
    — Josie Klemaier, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Tom's brother-in-law in North Carolina has been malting for several years, and the Thatchers learned the trade.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • Add fries and a malted and marvel at the impressive collection of Kewpie dolls.
    — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • The barley grains were sent into space for a beer-malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch.
    — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Laphroaig gets most of its malted barley from Port Ellen Maltings (owned by Diageo), but does indeed still malt some of its barley in-house.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The whisky is made from 100 percent barley, but in a style more similar to Irish pot still whisky—two-thirds of the barley is unmalted, while one-third is malted with koji.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 26 June 2023
  • His favorite flavor is chocolate malted krunch, studded with malt balls and chocolate bits.
    — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • In addition, there are barley grains aboard the Dragon for a beer-malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Per the press release, archaeologists think the pit was originally used for malting grain to brew beer between the second and third centuries.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The base grains are malted (so the grain starts to germinate aka liiiiive and then that process is halted), similar to whiskey, giving it a more robust flavor.
    — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Mimi Rancatore’s own favorite is malted vanilla, and Gus’s is chocolate chip.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Brewing relies on grains, typically malted barley, which are first soaked in hot water.
    — Larissa Zimberoff, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • Now that the dust has settled, the Buchanans can focus on little details like sourcing massive batches of malted barley and other key grains within ten miles of their horse country headquarters.
    — Andrew Parks, CNT, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Made in a style last popular in the 1800s, the blend of malted and unmalted barley with rye imported from the English countryside provides a mouthfeel that screams vanilla cream, rounded out by mellow notes of clove and spice.
    — Fortune, 13 July 2019
  • The research supplies will support a number of experiments, like a study of malting barley in microgravity to help adapt it for use on long-duration spaceflights and a study of how fire behaves in space.
    — Kelly McCleary, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Grain to glass: Craft malting facility Admiral Maltings will host a special tour featuring farmers, maltsters and brewers to give a sense of the full process of craft beer production, starting in the barley field.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 31 Jan. 2020
  • That includes pieces of a frieze which decorated the company's office building and two bronze statues depicting men sowing and reaping barley used for malting.
    — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Like single malt whiskey, the vodka is made from a single grain—in this case, barley, which is malted (a process involving germination that turns starch into sugar) before being pot distilled four times in West Cork, Ireland.
    — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Under the law, a farm brewery in its first year must use 25 percent of some combination of hops, barley, cereal grains, honey, flowers, or other fermentables grown or malted in Connecticut.
    — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Brewing beer is only one reason people might malt grains like barley; throughout history, malted but unfermented grains have also been fed to infants being weaned, taken as tonics, or just eaten as a snack.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 5 June 2020
  • Before Admiral, California breweries had only a couple of options for malt purveyors, all large-scale and industrial, malting their grains in enormous steel tanks.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2018
  • Despite the centuries of technological innovation in brewing, beer has stayed pretty much the same: a sugary liquid derived from malted barely, seasoned with hops, and fermented using yeast.
    — John Perritano, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2013

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