||1:Adventurous amateurs are well served by a homebrewing culture that has spread like yeast in an airing cupboard.||2:In the 1970s most bought a kit containing malt extract and a gloopy brown syrup which merely required the addition of water and a bit of patience.||3:Kits are still popular for the first-time brewers and there are plenty of online stores that will sell you one.||4:But home brewers are progressing to a set-up like a commercial brewery in miniature: mashing their own grain and selecting from an international array of malts and hops.

||1:敢于尝试的业余者们处于一个良好的氛围中，这种家庭酿造文化已如烘柜里的酵母般蔓延。||2:20世纪70年代多数人购买了小木桶，装入麦精和一种棕色糖浆，只需加水再耐心等待就行了。||3:小木桶在酿酒新手中仍备受欢迎，网上有很多商店贩卖这类小桶。||4:但家庭酿造者们也在进步，置备一整套类似于迷你商业酿造机器的设备：自己磨粮食，在国内外各种麦精和啤酒花中精挑细选。

||1:“It was a stroke of genius coining ‘Scotch' for a drink that can be made successfully anywhere,” says Andrew Nelstrop, a Norfolk farmer who in 2006 opened England's first new distillery for more than a century.||2:With the help of a former Laphroaig distiller—a contribution more crucial than any amount of peat or rainfall—St George's Distillery now sells its English Whisky Company single malts to supermarkets in England, distributors overseas, and even in Scotland.||3:In December Adnams, a Suffolk brewer, will bottle whisky that has been sitting in casks for three years—the time it takes for the European Union to recognise fermented cereal mash as whisky.||4:The London Distillery Company in Battersea is soon to start barrelling a single malt aimed at young urbanites.

||1:来自诺福克郡的农民安德鲁说到，“在势必会畅销的饮料瓶上印着苏格兰三个字的举动真是神来之笔”，他在2006年经营着英格兰的第一家酿酒厂，这个酿酒厂已经有100多年的历史了。||2:得力于比任何泥炭和降水量更关键的拉弗格蒸馏器，圣乔治的酿酒厂现在把英国威士忌公司的纯麦芽威士忌销售到英格兰超市、海外经销商、甚至到苏格兰。||3:在11月，萨福克的啤酒制造商亚当那姆斯将对储存在木桶有三年之久的威士忌进行瓶装，这三年正是等待欧盟认可糖化发酵谷物为威士忌的过程。||4:位于巴特西的伦敦酿酒公司将迅速开展对以年轻都市人为目标市场的纯麦芽威士忌进行桶装的工作。

Crown Candy Kitchen has been serving Route 66 travelers from the very beginning. It is just a few short blocks from the 66 path through St. Louis, Missouri. The family-run soda fountain shop opened more than 100 years ago, and has been making candies, malts , and meals ever since.

皇冠糖果厨房从很早以前就一直为66号公路的游客提供服务。它距离穿过密苏里州圣路易斯市的66号公路仅有几个街区。这家家庭经营的苏打水店于100多年前开业，并且截至目前一直在经营糖果、麦芽酒和膳食。

I'd picked five malts from the Society's winter list (see box), hunting above all for variety.

我从该协会的冬季酒单（见附表）中挑选了五种麦芽威士忌，极力想找出它们的不同之处。