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

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

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 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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