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ale

DEFINITIONS OF: ale

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n 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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Weissbier, wheat beer, white beer
a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
bitter
English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
Burton
a strong dark English ale
pale ale
an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter
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
Weizenbier
a general name in southern Germany for wheat beers
Weizenbock
a German wheat beer of bock strength
Guinness
a kind of bitter stout
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beer
a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
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