ale

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 107905485)
    is a type of: beer - a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
    subtypes:
    • 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

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