lagering

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of lager.

   After fermentation, the brewers spent two months lagering the beer in cool cellars.

   Lagering at near-freezing temperatures gives the beer its clean, crisp finish.

   Note

   The verb form keeps its object: brewers spend weeks lagering the beer, and the beer is the thing being stored cold. That object is the easiest way to tell it from the noun for the cold stage, which takes adjectives instead (long lagering, proper lagering). The same spelling also serves lager as a variant of laager, so outside brewing the word may belong to laager.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The stage in making lager beer during which it is stored at a low temperature to mature and clear.

   Like aging wine in a cool cellar, only it takes weeks rather than years.

   Proper lagering can take six to eight weeks in cold tanks.

   The brewery's long lagering period gives its pilsner a remarkably clean finish.

   Similarconditioning, maturation, aging

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