top fermentation

Noun
  1. A violent kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature high enough to carry the yeast cells to the top of the fermenting liquid;
    Used in the production of ale (synset 113588830)
    "top fermentation uses a yeast that ferments at higher temperatures than that used for bottom fermentation"
    is a type of: ferment, fermentation, fermenting, zymolysis, zymosis - a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

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