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WHITE BEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white beer mean? 

WHITE BEER (noun)
  The noun WHITE BEER has 1 sense:

1. a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescentplay

  Familiarity information: WHITE BEER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WHITE BEER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Weissbier; wheat beer; white beer

Hypernyms ("white beer" is a kind of...):

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)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "white beer"):

Weizenbier (a general name in southern Germany for wheat beers)

Weizenbock (a German wheat beer of bock strength)


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