mash
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4.3
- noun
- /mæʃ/
:
masa
- The farmer mixed the grain with water to create a nutritious mash for the livestock.
And this makes this kind of nasty fermented sour oat mash.
- And this makes this kind of nasty fermented sour oat mash.
Examples
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The odor of sour mash and fermented peaches hung over the place like an alcoholic fog.
Fiction book (2001) -
Later, he tasted the murky choc from the bottom of the mash barrel and liked it better than the whiskey.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sour mash, but not too sweet, please.
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I need about five pounds of laying mash, and you better give me about the same amount of scratch.
Fiction book (1990) -
We both have ordered a steak and we have mash and broccoli with that too.
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And there was no detectable trace of it in either the mash or the resulting ethanol.
Academic text (2002) -
- Sausage and mash.
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One evening, hogs had gotten into the sour mash and were staggering around drunk.
Fiction book (1998) -
Bangers and mash.
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This isn't schnapps, it's aquavit, distilled from potato mash.
Compounds
- Specialized
2
7.4
A way of making whiskey using part of a previous batch to start the next one
- Specialized
1
7.2
People add some mash from an earlier batch when making whiskey to keep the same flavor
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Etymology
Mash as the brewing word comes from an old idea of making a 'soft mass' by crushing grains. Think of mashed potatoes: the brewer turns barley into a soft, wet mix to get the sugars out, which is why that mix is called 'mash'.