Worty
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwɜːti/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Worty is an adjective meaning Characteristic or indicative of a wort; wortlike; vegetative.
Meaning
Characteristic or indicative of a wort; wortlike; vegetative.
Example Sentences
These methods were formerly associated with intensely 'worty' flavours in the resultant beers which were cloying and not 'moreish'.
It was thus demonstrated that the addition of the recovered hop oil to the cooled wort did not impart a “herbal flavor” but a "hop oil" or "hop oil like" flavor to the finished beer without any worty odor.
Because of the low temperature, the metabolic activity of the yeast is low, but there is an adsorption of hop and wort compounds to the surface of the yeast and some reduction occurs of the carbonyl compounds from the wort that are responsible for the worty flavour.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wortlike, wartlike, wrenlike, wartish, woolish, watry.
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