NOUN | food | ale | a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast |
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Sounds | ey'l | |
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Rhymes | ail ... Yale: 95 rhymes with eyl... |
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 |
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 |
Spanish | ale, bíter, cerveza ale, cerveza inglesa | |
Catalan | bíter |
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