Malt

Beer is brewed from malt.

Beer is taxed according to its malt content, so low-malt beer is cheaper.

The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt.

I guess malt vinegar is more common than white vinegar on fries.

Only four ingredients are needed to make one of the oldest staples of mankind. Mix water, hops, malt and yeast and you’re well on your way to making beer. But it’s beer’s smallest ingredient that’s making the biggest splash today.

Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.