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LAGER BEER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September
Synonyms:
lager; lager beer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("lager beer" is a kind of...):
beer (a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lager beer"):
Munchener; Munich beer (a dark lager produced in Munich since the 10th century; has a distinctive taste of malt)
bock; bock beer (a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring)
light beer (lager with reduced alcohol content)
Octoberfest; Oktoberfest (a strong lager made originally in Germany for the Oktoberfest celebration; sweet and copper-colored)
Pilsener; Pilsner (a pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the Bohemian town of Pilsen)
malt; malt liquor (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)
