malt-sugar

Updated: June 29, 2025

They contain a kind of starch or fecula; this starch, in the process of malting, becomes converted into a kind of sugar; and from this malt-sugar or transformed starch, may be obtained ale or beer, gin or whisky, and vinegar, by various processes of fermenting and distilling.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460: Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852