brewer's yeast

Definitions of brewer's yeast
  1. noun
    yeast used in fermenting beer
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    types:
    bottom fermenting yeast
    brewer's yeast used in bottom fermentation of lager
    top fermenting yeast
    brewer's yeast used in top fermentation of ale
    type of:
    barm, yeast
    a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
  2. noun
    used as a leaven in baking and brewing
    synonyms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, baker's yeast
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    type of:
    yeast
    any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
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