My friend told us a story?!
My friend said it is true that the process would work because the ovaltine malt has barley malt extract
my main question could they make the alcohol from malt from OVALTINE ?
Answers: everyone knows yeast and sugar makes alcohol but there was a rumor that surfaced that kids were using ovaltine malt to make liquor in the college and were arrested. Sounds fishy right?
My friend said it is true that the process would work because the ovaltine malt has barley malt extract
my main question could they make the alcohol from malt from OVALTINE ?
Theoretically you could as long as there are no preservatives (sodium benzoate...) in the Ovaltine. I know for a 100% fact that you can use Ovaltine to flavor beer I just don't know that you could make a fermented beverage from nothing but Ovaltine.
The only far fetched portion of this story to me is that they actually got caught doing it, and furthermore arrested rather than fined. Alcohol laws are really weird from region to region though.
Historically speaking though, thousands of years ago alcoholic beverages fermented from cacao have been done, they're one of the earliest examples of "beer" known to man.
Urban Legend.
"more ovaltine, please!"
just kidding ;) i couldn't resist....