Barley vs Malt - What's the difference?
barley | malt |
A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare , or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
* 1896 , , A Shropshire Lad , LXII:
(US) Short for "malted milk shake", a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
As nouns the difference between barley and malt
is that barley is a cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks while malt is malted grain sprouted grain (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.As a verb malt is
to convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.barley
English
(wikipedia barley) (Hordeum vulgare)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* barley-bird * barley-bree * barley-broth * barley-hood * barleymow * barley sugar * barley water * barley-wine * four-rowed barley * pearl barley * sea barley * sprat-barleyAnagrams
* * *malt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Oh many a peer of England brews
- Livelier liquor than the Muse,
- And malt does more than Milton can
- To justify God's ways to man.