WHITE BEER
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 effervescent
Familiarity information: WHITE BEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WHITE BEER (noun)
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 German 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)
