ale
English Thesaurus
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 (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | beer, |
| definition | : | a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | weissbier, wheat beer, white beer, |
| definition | : | a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | bitter, |
| definition | : | English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | burton, |
| definition | : | a strong dark English ale (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | pale ale, |
| definition | : | an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | porter, porter's beer, |
| definition | : | a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | stout, |
| definition | : | a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops (noun.food) |
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