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malting

malting

5.8
Soaking and letting grain sprout to make malt for brewing
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔltɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : malteo
  • In malting, barley is soaked in water and spread out to germinate for several days, converting starch into sugar.
  • malting barley
  • malting process

Examples

  • The process of malting transforms grains by allowing them to sprout, which is essential for beer production.

  • The process, called malting, occurs when moistened barley grains are allowed to germinate and, incidentally, to convert inborn starches into a fermentable sugar called maltose.

    Academic text (1994)

  • So how do we take that process over the origin of malting, right?

  • The American Malting Barley Association and the North American Barley Genome Mapping Project help fund the research.

    Academic text (1999)

  • During malting, grains are carefully germinated to prepare them for fermentation and distillation.

How Complete

malting
  • Specialized
5.8
germination
  • Specialized
2 4.0

Surface Forms

malting singular
maltings plural

Morphology

malting = malt (transparent) = malt + ing

This is the regular verbal noun in -ing, directly naming the process of making malt from grain.

Etymology

Malting comes from malt, which originally meant grain that has been soaked and allowed to sprout. So malting is the process of making malt—soaking and sprouting the grain before drying—and that is why the word means this step in brewing and distilling.