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Definitions of fermenting
  1. noun
    a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
Definition that contains fermenting
  • beer a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
  • ale 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
  • brew drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
  • brewing the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast
  • yeast a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
  • lager 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
  • wort unfermented or fermenting malt
  • alcoholise make alcoholic, as by fermenting
  • bottom fermentation a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of lager
  • spruce beer a brew made by fermenting molasses and other sugars with the sap of spruce trees (sometimes with malt)
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