BOTTOM FERMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottom fermentation mean? 

• BOTTOM FERMENTATION (noun)
  The noun BOTTOM FERMENTATION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BOTTOM FERMENTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTOM FERMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("bottom fermentation" is a kind of...):

ferment; fermentation; fermenting; zymolysis; zymosis (a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol)