Beverages, Malt liquor beverage

Malt liquor is a fermented barley-malt beverage, brewed to a higher alcohol content than standard beer and typically sold in large single-serve bottles like the 1184 g bottle this data reflects. It is served cold, straight from the bottle or poured over ice, without the layered hop bitterness that defines many pale ales, and its taste leans simple and malty rather than complex. Its role at the table is almost entirely social rather than culinary, since it is not commonly poured into a dish or used as a cooking ingredient the way wine or stock might be, and it is typically consumed on its own rather than paired deliberately with food.

Keep bottles refrigerated or chilled well before serving, since warm storage flattens the carbonation and dulls the flavor, and drink soon after opening because it does not hold its character once exposed to air for long. Per 100 g it carries just 40 calories, 0 g of sugar, and only 3 mg of sodium, with essentially no protein (0.35 g) or fat, making it one of the lightest beverages in this data set on a per-100 g basis, and a large bottle like this one is meant to be poured and shared across a serving rather than treated as a single small pour.