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I wonder if 84.etc. had added "generally" before "dark brown" because some brands, or home-brewed malta isn't as dark in color (maybe because it doesn't have as much caramel color?). I've never encountered home-brewed malta and don't even know if there is such a thing. Anybody from a malta-drinking region reading this who knows?
There is recent news that caramel coloring may be a carcinogen, and Malta was named as a major use. I find it curious why if "It is similar in color to stout (dark brown)", why is caramel coloring needed?
Flight Risk (
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00:04, 24 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Who drinks it?
Don't Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Venezuelans, etc. drink malta as well? The recent paragraph makes it sound as if it's primarily consumed by Cuban Americans, leaving out the other Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean. If they also drink it, that should probably be added to the article. I don't have enough familiarity, having moved away from Florida years ago.
Badagnani17:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)reply
I don't know how popular it is in
Cuba, but in
Puerto Rico it's definitely one of the most popular
soft drinks. I don't know why this article is more attached to Cuba than it is to Puerto Rico, and latin
countries in general.
Arthur Curry04:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)reply
I took the photo of the Malta bottle and glass at a Miami Cuban American eatery. I think it has been deleted because one of the editors thinks that it might be copy writed. I have to post it again with the clause saying that it was taken by me. How can I prove this. It was a nice picture that illustrated what the drink looks like - I think it would be a shame not to have it.
I see that someone added "Malta Pony" to the list. Maybe this was added by me - it was a long time ago so I don't know. However, it is interesting to list this brand of Malta because it is a Colombian type malta rather than the more traditional Puerto Rican or Cuban American variety which is more common in North America. It was a good malta and I had several of them at a Colombian eating place. The only difference was a slight taste variation in that artificial vanilla flavor was added as an ingredient, This made the malta mellower, and it gave it a faint sweet "vanilla" taste of course. This Malta is made in Colombia - in Barranquilla to be more precise and it is brewed and bottled by “Bavaria S.A.” in the aforementioned city. On the label there is a Spanish description that say, “Bebida de Campeones” which translates into English as the “Drink of Champions”.
Other Malta brands
Here in PR now we have Malta Polar, but I'm not shure if it is the same Maltin Polar of Venezuela. Also, there was a Food Club Malta, it tasted like crap. Other thing I noticed about Malta is that many of the non-hispanic people who tried for the first time described the flavor as "rotten grapes", so, I guess because we drink it in the early childhood we get used to the flavor.
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64.237.176.10205:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)Samuel Trujilloreply
I wonder if anyone can comment on malta's similarities to
kvass (ingredients, manufacture, taste). They appear to be very similar drinks and I was surprised to see there was no reference to either from each's page.
Kvass is a very different beast. I'm told you can get non-alcoholic drinks called "Kvass" these days, but real Kvass is indeed fermented and mildly alcoholic (1-2% alcohol by volume). Kvass ranges from sweet to sour, based in part on how fresh it is, and is often flavored with mint or raisins. Being made from dark bread, it tastes of dark bread. Malta, on the other hand, tastes like unfermented beer, because that's basically what it is--it's quite sweet, with a kind of molasses bitterness behind the syrup.--
158.111.4.27 (
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14:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Hmm... The kvass sold on the streets in Russian cities is almost never alcoholic, and I've never seen it flavored with mint or raisins. I tried both kvass and malta, and I have to say they do taste quite similar. I would say malta is more sweet, and kvass is more sour. Malta is also much darker in color than kvass. I think the main reason these articles don't refer to each other is the fact that these drinks are from different cultures, and not many people tried both.
Selerian (
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03:19, 12 March 2010 (UTC)reply
The story gets a little complicated. Modern, commercial kvass may be a non-alcoholic soft drink carbonated by industrial methods. Traditional kvass is carbonated by the action of yeast on sugar, and that produces alcohol. The quantities involved are very slight: no more than one percent in many cases. You'd have to drink a _lot_ of kvass to feel inebriated. So it's often considered "non-alcoholic" although you can bet there is some alcohol in there. (Somewhere, I have a recipe from the Prohibition period in America for a "lemon soft drink" that involves adding yeast to lemonade and letting it ferment for a couple of days to get fizzy. This drink was touted as a good alternative to alcohol!) Most of my exposure to kvass is via homemade stuff prepared in big jars on the windowsill. I have not made a careful ethnographic study, but mint and raisins both abound in the recipies I have been given. —Preceding
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15:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)reply
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"A popular way Africans and Americans sometimes drink malta"
I'm almost positive Americans don't commonly drink malta, it's more something for Caribbean and Latino communities. It's not consumed in the USA regularly, only sold in specialty foreign shops.
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00:03, 3 February 2022 (UTC)reply