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- noun Plural form of
maltster .
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Examples
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The high-quality stuff is sent to maltsters like Briess in Chilton, WI; the low-quality stuff is used for livestock feed.
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The high-quality stuff is sent to maltsters like Briess in Chilton, WI; the low-quality stuff is used for livestock feed.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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By doing this he had done for himself — as regards sweet hospitality — among all the leading farmers, maltsters, tanners, and millers for miles around.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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The two-row malt that is generally available today is well modified by the maltsters.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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The two-row malt that is generally available today is well modified by the maltsters.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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The common practice of maltsters is to allow twenty one days, which generally brings the green malt in a mouldy state to the kiln, to the great injury of flavour and preservation in beer brewed from such malts; whereas, the grain should be brought as sweet and dry as circumstances will allow of to this last and important operation of malting, every part of which requires minute and continued attention.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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This, or even less than this, is contended for by many maltsters, as a sufficient advance of the acrospire, which, they say, has done its business, so soon as it has passed the middle of the kernel.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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The Dutch and German maltsters generally prefer having their lower or working floor under ground; but this I take to be a bad plan, unless in elevated situations, or where the soil is dry and gravelly; for if any spring of water or damp arises in the malt-house floor, or walls so placed, the injury to the malt is very great, and should be carefully guarded against.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger
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In the year 1850, 40,745,050 bushels of malt paid duty, the number of maltsters in the United Kingdom being from 8,000 to 9,000.
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The quantity of barley made into malt in the United Kingdom in the year ending 10th October, 1850, was 5,183,617 quarters, of which about four million quarters were used by 8,500 maltsters.
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