Meaning | A general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume. |
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Narrower | Burton | A strong dark English ale |
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Weissbier, white beer, wheat beer | A general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation |
bitter | English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) |
pale ale | An amber colored ale brewed with pale malts |
porter, porter's beer | A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley |
stout | A strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops |
Broader | beer | A general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture / mixture of cereals) flavored with hops |
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Spanish | ale, bíter, cerveza ale, cerveza inglesa |
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Catalan | bíter |
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