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nouna 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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- 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
- brewage drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling
- alcoholize make alcoholic, as by fermenting
- top fermentation 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