In my memory, it was about twenty three years ago that dark and frothy, non alcoholic malt drink appeared on the Ghanaian scene as Super Malt and Malta Guiness. We were then in university. Thereafter, came the commercialization of our residential common rooms into pubs serving Malt and other drinks and edibles. After basketball practice, we would walk, sweaty and stinky and still innervated to the Republic Hall pub and occassionally the Queen's Hall pub, there to drimk malt. Supermalt had on it's label: for sports men and convalescing patients, nursing mothers etc, alluding to the idea that it was particularly nutritious. Well we drank it and developed the taste for it, and so many years and so many miles awa, we occassionally will buy a box of Malt to indulge ourselves. The problem I find is that it is high in calories and may represent some of the weight gain over the last few years that some of us have experienced. So perhaps we ought to slow down on Malt or have half a glass at the most.
