Talk:Malt beer

Merger
Malzbier was merged with this page. No need to have two articles about this -- one with an English title and another with a German title. Wahrmund (talk) 21:25, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What is the difference between malt beer and malta (soft drink)? Most of the iw-links point to that article, but should be pointing here imo. --Akigka (talk) 11:56, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Questioning prominent reference to Tempo Beer Industries
Under the See Also heading, is there any reason to single out one concern, Tempo Beer Industries, among all the companies in the world that produce malt beer? It seems odd to favor or promote one commercial enterprise over all other similar operations in this way. What's WP policy? Anyone have other opinions? &mdash; IslandGyrl (talk) 18:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Tempo is not being singled out. Any other major producer of malt beer could be added, although I don't know of any others which fit that description. The criterion for inclusion here would be that a company has to have its own article on Wikipedia and its production of malt beer would have to be mentioned in it. Wahrmund (talk) 21:58, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Another merger
The article about Malta (soft drink) contains a wealth of information about this type of drink, but apart from the page name it covers many international varieties. I suggest we merge the content under the title of "Malt beer" since that is the English term. Malta, however, is Spanish, so just like Malzbier has been merged into this page we should now include the content from the Malta page under the common name "malt beer". De728631 (talk) 22:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I tend not to agree. Malt beer and malta, although related, are two different beverages. In many countries, only one of the two is common so it makes sense to keep them separated also on Wikipedia. However, the list of different varieties in the Malta article is in need of some review since it contains a number of references to beverages that are actually malt beers, not malta. Birnuson (talk) 01:10, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The modern German Malzbier is actually produced in a manner described in the malt beer article, namely by adding yeast at a temperature of 0°C. I suppose that makes it a malt 'beer' and not a malta; which would also justify the Vitamalz image in this article. So if we don't merge the entire content, I believe we should at least move the Malzbier section to this article while leaving a note about it in the Malta article. De728631 (talk) 16:39, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose--The malta article says it is non-alcholic. So malt beer and malta are differnt, although they are both flavored by malt. static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ  16:56, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Low-alcohol beer includes non-alcoholic beer, i.e. 0% abv which is even included in the definition for malt beer. De728631 (talk) 17:01, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose--Malta drinks are not intended to be beer-like products but rather malt-based soft-drinks, yeast is not added so technically it is not a beer. But this does not mean the article should merge with soft-drinks either. &amp;Brewt@lk 22:03, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Looks like it's time to rewrite the Malta article and clarify the alcohol content in Malt beer, because Malta (soft drink) says that "Malta is actually a beer that has not been fermented" and the lead of "Malt beer" includes an alcoholic range of 0%–2.5% ABV which makes it non-alcoholic too. And to add to the confusion, the German Vitamalz brand (which does contain yeast) appears in both articles. De728631 (talk) 19:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I guess it need to be discussed in Malt beer whether it actually include the drink with 0% alcohol content. If yes, then Malta (soft drink) can be considered special case of Malt beer; it still can be separate article, though. - S P Arif Sahari Wibowo (talk) 16:09, 26 March 2014 (UTC)