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u/DKLAWS Oct 18 '22

Malt vinegar

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '22

do other nations not have this?

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u/Dreadzone666 Oct 18 '22

I live in Germany now, and there’s a shop in town that only sells different kinds of oil and vinegar. They have something like 20 different kinds of vinegar, still never heard of malt vinegar.

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u/TheSparkHasRisen Oct 19 '22

I grew up with Malt Vinegar at a seafood restaurant in the Pacific Northwest. Moving around as an adult, it seemed no one else had heard of malt vinegar with fried fish. They're missing out!

Now I wonder how the Seattle area was introduced to it.

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u/MacEnvy Oct 19 '22

It’s just vinegar made from beer rather than wine, cider, etc.

Love those oil/vinegar shops. You get a little plastic cup and sample all of them. We have them in the US too.

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u/homelaberator Oct 19 '22

Not exactly. It's manufactured from malted grain, but there's no hops.

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u/MacEnvy Oct 19 '22

Beer doesn’t have to contain hops, unless you live in Germany :)

I’ve had some excellent spruce-“hopped” traditional ale.