draff

[ draf ]

noun

1. dregs, as in a brewing process; lees; refuse.

draff

/ dræf /

noun

1. the residue of husks after fermentation of the grain used in brewing, used as a food for cattle

Derived Forms

• ˈdraffy, adjective

Other Words From

• draffy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of draff¹

1175–1225; Middle English draf; cognate with Icelandic, Dutch draf; akin to Dutch drab ( drab ² ), German Treber draff

Word History and Origins

Origin of draff¹

C13: from Old Norse draf; related to Old High German trebir, Russian drob fragment; see drivel

Example Sentences

"Working with the team to prepare the malt, charge the stills, pitch the yeast, and finally 'draff out' was a great end-to-end view of the distilling process."

From BBC

Inspired by the girls she went to school with in Belfast who, as she wrote in the performance publication Draff, practiced disco dancing for competitions, Doherty’s strident, tough army echoes her memory of them: “Wiping sexuality and shapes out into space like weapons.”

From New York Times

Edinburgh-based Celtic Renewables has developed a process to manufacture the biofuel biobutanol from draff and pot ale - barley kernels and a yeasty liquid that are produced when whisky is made and then usually thrown away.

From Reuters

It is made from kernels of barley called draff, and pot ale - a yeasty liquid left over from fermentation.

From BBC

Almost 750,000 tonnes of draff and two billion litres of pot ale are produced by the malt whisky industry in Scotland every year.

From BBC