Burtonize

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verb

To enrich (water) with mineral salts, especially for brewing alcohol.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbBurtonize (third-person singular simple present Burtonizes, present participle Burtonizing, simple past and past participle Burtonized)

present singular third person Burtonizes · participle present Burtonizing · participle past Burtonized · past Burtonized

  1. beveragesTo enrich (water) with mineral salts, especially for brewing alcohol.

    ... of many thousand gallons of Burtonized water being daily pumped up from the beds, and allowed to run off without being applied to any special purpose.

    1897, The Mining Engineer, page 112
    2 more examples

    [...] producing a more acid beer; adding hydrochloric or sulphuric or lactic acid simultaneously removes carbonates and "Burtonizes" the water. Acidifying wort by adding acidic malt and acidic malt extract to the copper changes buffering only [...]

    1952, Journal of the Institute of Brewing, Great Britain

    It has a pale chestnut colour with a herbal, spicy and fresh tobacco aroma with rye bread malt and a powerful sulphur note: the brewing water is Burtonized. The palate is bittersweet with rich biscuit malt, [...]

    2018, Roger Protz, IPA: A legend in our time, →ISBN

Origin

From the English town of Burton upon Trent, known for pale ales brewed from water rich in mineral salts, + -ize.

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