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Malt liquor   /mɔlt lˈɪkər/   Listen
Malt liquor

noun
1.
A lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer.  Synonym: malt.






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"Malt liquor" Quotes from Famous Books



... armies in two wars," says the Dr. Jackson mentioned above, "by the aids of temperance and hard work, and probably could wear out another before my period of old age arrives. I eat no animal food, drink no wine or malt liquor, or spirits of any kind; I wear no flannel, and neither regard wind nor rain, heat nor cold, when business is in ...
— Select Temperance Tracts • American Tract Society

... mortar or bricks for building purposes. The stranger is unpleasantly impressed with the fact that more beer is drunk in Munich than in any other community composed of the same number of people. The obvious trouble with those who consume so much malt liquor is that they keep half tipsy all of the time, and their muddled brains are never in possession of their full mental capacity. There is not much absolute drunkenness to be seen in the streets of this capital, but the bloated ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... during last week, and even the duty remains without fluctuation. In this state of inactivity the effects of the Metropolitan Total Abstinence movement was a topic of interest to the trade. As it appears that nearly 70,000 persons took the pledge, the consumption of malt liquor must seriously diminished, and the demand for Hops will consequently be very considerably decreased. It is fortunate, therefore, for the planters that this year's growth is not large, otherwise the prices would have ...
— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various



Words linked to "Malt liquor" :   lager, lager beer



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