ale (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *ale*:
NOUN	food	ale	a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast

ale > pronunciation
Sounds	ey'l
Rhymes	ail ... Yale: 95 rhymes with eyl...

English > *ale*: 1 sense > noun 1, food
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.
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

HyperDic: ale