Malzbier

Malzbier is a form of sweet, low-alcohol (0 - 1%) beer that is brewed like normal beer but without fermentation by adding the yeast at or about 0 °C. CO₂ and sugar is added later. It's a common beverage in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is often used as an vitamin and energy drink^[1] or a nutritional supplement.

The closest American drink with some similarity of appearance is root beer, however root beer tends to have a strong sassafras, vanilla, and spice flavor, and no vitamin content, which is quite different from the grainy, sweet malt flavors, vitamin content, and bitter hops flavors in Malzbier. Malted milk or chocolate malted milks like Ovaltine have been a more common American use of malt in a nutrient rich drink.

See also

• Vitamalz a brand of malzbier
• Malta (soft drink) a typically sweet and dark carbonated malt drink
• Malt beer
• Malt beverage

Sources

1. ^ description of Malzbier on the web site of the German Beer Institute

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