beer

Formsbeers, beering, beered

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   brewed alcoholnoununcountable

   An alcoholic drink fermented from grain, usually malted barley, and often flavored with hops; also a serving or a particular kind of this drink.

   Workers shared a round of beer after finishing the harvest.

   Beer ferments when yeast turns the sugars in malted barley into alcohol.

   UsageFor the drink in general, use no a: I like beer. For one serving, say a beer or a glass of beer.

   Note

   Hops are the usual bittering agent but not the only one. Gruit is another, so a beer need not be hopped to count as beer. Source

   Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Hops are the usual bittering ingredient in beer. en.wikipedia.org
   • Gruit can provide bitterness instead of hops, and unhopped beer exists. en.wikipedia.org
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   ginger-type drinknoununcountable

   A drink made from or flavored with roots and other plant parts, such as ginger, sassafras, or spruce, once brewed by fermenting and today usually made as a fizzy soft drink.

   Colonial sailors drank spruce beer to help prevent scurvy on long voyages.

   The recipe for sassafras beer calls for fermenting the roots with sugar.

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   drink sociallyverbcolloquialintransitive

   To drink beer, especially in a casual or social setting.

   The crew beered late into the night after the launch.

   On Fridays they like to beer down by the river.

   Similardrink, booze

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