What is a malster or maltser as an occupation? Listed on 1861,71 and 81 census.?

Answer 1

A Malster was someone who brewed beer or prepared malt for brewing purposes

maltster (also malster)

A manufacturer of malt. Malting was a trade in its own right, and maltsters generally independent from either the farmers who produced the barley or the brewers who consumed the malt, though some of the larger breweries conducted their own malting operations, especially from the nineteenth century onwards [Technically the term ‘maltster’ is feminine (cf brewster), malting having traditionally been the work of women; by the period in question, however, the enterprise was male-dominated and the term applied largely to men.

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Answer 2

A Malster (also called Maltster) was someone who made malted barley to flavour beer.

This is still done (for beer and whisky). The process involves letting the barley grains start to sprout, then stopping them growing further by cooking them. Sprouting turns the grains' starch content to sugar (this is why malt tastes sweet).
The grains are ground to a flour, then water is poured through to draw out the sugar.
Then the sugar (with its distinctive malty flavour) is used to feed the yeast which produces alcohol... beer, in fact!

Answer 3

A Malster was a brewer of beer. Some pubs are still called the Malsters Arms.

Answer 4

in sussex a malster was someone who worked in a brewery he would stir the malt into the brew barrel when making beer...

Answer 5

I would guess a worker in a brewery or distillery,definitely to do with
the production of alcohol.

Answer 6

Basically a brewer. It is a variatiation of maltster.

Answer 7

It's a manufacturer of those delicious brown chocolate balls with aero(TM) bubbles of horlicks(TM) malt inside. Yummmm!