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Beverage

Malta

Malta is a dark, carbonated non-alcoholic malt beverage brewed from barley malt, hops and sugar, tasting of toasted grain, molasses and dark caramel with a bittersweet, almost cola-like richness. Beloved across the Caribbean, Latin America and West Africa, it is essentially an unfermented "beer" — the wort of a brew stopped before it turns to alcohol — and is entirely distinct from malted milk.

SweetNon-alcoholic
At a glance
Signature
Toasted malt & Caramel
Molasses
Strength
Non-alcoholic
by taste profile
A cold malta opens with a deep, toasty malt aroma — dark bread crust, caramel and molasses over a faint hop lift — and drinks frankly sweet but grounded by a real hop bitterness and a grain-forward, almost stout-like body; it is thicker, darker and more bittersweet than a cola, foaming heavily and finishing on roasted-barley and raisin notes rather than acid tang.
Taste balance
SweetnessSweet
DrySweet
AciditySoft
SoftTart
BitternessMedium
SmoothBitter
StrengthLight
LightStrong

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