malt
モルト
解説 Definition
モルトとは、大麦などの穀物を発芽・乾燥させたもので、ビールやウイスキーの醸造に不可欠な原料です。糖化酵素を含み、発酵のための糖分を生み出す役割を担っています。モルトウイスキーやモルトビールなど、独特の風味を持つ飲料の素材として広く知られています。
Malt is grain, especially barley, that has been allowed to begin germinating and then dried. It supplies sugars and characteristic flavors in the production of beer, whisky, and certain foods or drinks.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
malt は大麦などを水に浸して発芽させ、乾燥した「麦芽」です。malted barley、malt whisky、roasted malt という組み合わせで工程と用途を結びつけましょう。maltose「麦芽糖」も同じ語族です。単なる barley「大麦」ではなく、発芽・乾燥という加工を経た穀物だと区別するのが要点です。
Think of malt not as ordinary barley but as barley after a controlled transformation: the grain is soaked, allowed to sprout, and then dried. This process makes its stored material available as sugars needed for brewing. Learn it through common combinations such as malt whisky, malted barley, roasted malt, and malt flavor. The related word maltose, a type of sugar, reinforces the connection between malt and fermentable sugar. In a brewery scene, barley is the original grain, malt is the prepared ingredient, and the resulting beer or whisky carries flavors affected by how that malt was dried or roasted.
例文
The brewer carefully selected the finest malt for his craft beer.
醸造家はクラフトビールのために最高のモルトを慎重に選んだ。
Whisky made from malted barley has a rich and complex flavor.
麦芽大麦から作られたウイスキーは豊かで複雑な風味を持っている。
The malt was roasted to give the stout its dark color and bitter taste.
スタウトの黒い色と苦みを出すために、モルトを焙煎した。
malt の類義語・関連語
malt の語源・成り立ち Etymology
maltは古英語mealtに由来し、さらにゲルマン祖語をへて「発芽させた穀物」を表した語です。麦を水に浸して芽を出させる工程が語の核で、maltedやmaltoseにもその意味が残ります。
Malt comes from Old English mealt and belongs to a Germanic family of words referring to grain prepared by soaking, germination, and drying. Cognate forms occur in other Germanic languages. The central idea has remained remarkably stable: grain altered through the malting process for brewing or food production. Modern derivatives include malted, describing grain treated in this way, and maltose, the name of a sugar historically associated with malt.
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