How to Use malt in a Sentence

malt

1 of 2 noun
  • Splash malt vinegar on the fries and don’t fear the mushy peas.
    — Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Start with the blue crab beignets, which are served with malt vinegar aioli.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Played with the amount of malt to get the sweetness level right.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Balanced and with a lively mid palate with malt balls, red fruit.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Flaky fish with coleslaw, tartar sauce, fries and malt vinegar.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Stout is a full-bodied ale that lends toasty depth and hints of malt and hops to the broth.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Add malt drink mix, vanilla, and salt; beat on low 2 minutes.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The Isle of Skye blend is built around a core of island malts.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Their go-to order is a hot dog sandwich and a chocolate malt.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Bock beer is an ideal beer for spring with its hearty, strong, rich malt flavors and slight kick.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The biggest differences are in what malts are used.
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Like ales, lagers can be light or dark depending on how the grain malt is roasted.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In a small saucepan over low heat, whisk together the heavy cream and malt powder.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
  • It’s known for its chili dogs, burgers, and classic chocolate malt.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Black sugar boba + pearl + chocolate malt milk with cream mousse.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Hops are kept to a minimum and used to balance out the sweetness of the malt.
    — oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In a saucepan, heat the cream with the malt extract until steaming but not boiling.
    — Abigail Abesamis Demarest, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Roasted malts yield smooth coffee and cocoa flavors, laced with a splash of cream.
    — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Balanced with malt base, hoppy, but bitterness is not over the top.
    — cleveland, 8 May 2022
  • They’re also known for producing some of the world’s best single-malt whisky.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Our testers loved the subtle malt flavor and light bitterness.
    — Emily Laurence, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2022
  • There are dessert items such as frozen custard, shakes, malts and other seasonal items.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There are dessert items such as frozen custard, shakes, malts and other seasonal items.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There are classic banana splits, milkshakes, hot fudge sundaes, and even malts.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
  • That’s followed by notes of nutty malt, caramel, clove, and a squeeze of lemon on the palate, and a bright finish.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The beverages contain real coffee and tea, as well as a malt base.
    — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 18 Aug. 2023
  • There are big chocolate malt notes that lead the palate, along with fresh fruit, a bit of grass, and long notes of vanilla and caramel.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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

malt

2 of 2 verb
  • The results is malted and crispy on the outside and light on the inside.
    — Bridget Arsenault, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The barley is grown and malted, then raked across the floor every four hours for five days to germinate.
    — David Coggins, CNT, 24 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • Malted grain is a key ingredient in the beer-brewing process.
    — Josie Klemaier, The Denver Post, 3 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
  • Add fries and a malted and marvel at the impressive collection of Kewpie dolls.
    — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • This is also made from 100 percent malted rye, but the grain has not been smoked, and it’s aged in ex-bourbon and French oak casks.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 June 2026
  • The barley grains were sent into space for a beer-malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch.
    — Fox News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • It’s based on Indian six‑row barley and is smoked with peat imported from Islay during malting.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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 Appétit, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Long before a refreshing mint julep can hit your lips, grain must be malted, milled, mashed, and fermented, the resulting wash then distilled to concentrate the alcohol.
    — Samuel Cochran, Architectural Digest, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In addition, there are barley grains aboard the Dragon for a beer-malting experiment by Anheuser-Busch.
    — Washington Post, 5 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Crafted entirely from concerto barley malted by hand on-site, this 10-year-old single malt is the oldest and most complex in the series, and the first to carry an age statement.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • The brewing process The brewing process takes raw cereal grain – usually from barley – and converts its starch and proteins into simpler chemicals by malting.
    — Alcina Johnson Sudagar, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • Most distilleries in Scotland don’t actually malt their own barley, the process in which barley is germinated and then heated to stop the process before being turned into mash and distilled.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Every kernel of corn, rye, wheat, and barley that goes into a Frey Ranch whiskey is grown on the ranch, the barley malted on-site, milled, mashed, distilled, aged, and bottled within the same property.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • This whisky is made from barley grown on farmland surrounding the distillery, and every step from malting to bottling is done onsite (other expressions, however, are made from barley purchased from malting houses).
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2026
  • And the peas continue to be malted at Rabbit Hill Farms, making this portion of the pea supply entirely within New Jersey.
    — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Rotating flavors include Mexican hot chocolate, butterscotch bourbon pecan, malted vanilla, and blood orange sorbet.
    — Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 8 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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