Malt is a cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting".[1][2][3][4] Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted milk, malt vinegar, .... Malting grain develops the enzymes (α-amylase, β-amylase) required for modifying the grains' starches into various types of sugar,