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malting

malting

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A building where grain is made into malt for brewing
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔltɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : maltería
  • Visitors to the malting house can see the process of converting barley into malt for brewing.
  • malting barley

Examples

  • Barley bread would open a new market for a grain that today is used primarily for malting and in animal feed.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Anyway, the introduction of modern malting, kilning, and brewing techniques—skills that are not difficult to learn and which most homebrewers are familiar with—could easily produce a product without peer or competition.

    Blog text (24)

  • The local brewery relies on the historic malting facility to produce high-quality malt for their beers.

  • He was fascinated by the technology used in the malting process at the distillery near his home.

Surface Forms

malting singular
maltings plural

Morphology

malting = malt (semi-transparent) = malt + ing

The word is built regularly from 'malt' + '-ing', but the facility meaning is a specialized nominal extension that is not fully predictable from the form alone.

Etymology

Malting comes from the word malt, the grain used for beer and whisky. A malting was literally the 'malt house' where people made malt—like a bakery makes bread—so the word can mean the building where malt is prepared.