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beer-lore

beer-lore noun: the knowledge, study, history, or science of beer or beermaking; brewology.

Noun

beer-lore (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge, study, history, or science of beer or beermaking; brewology.
    • Delving still earlier into the beer-lore of Germany we find that Tacitus, the Roman historian, in his Treatise on the Situation, Manners, and Inhabitants of Germany makes special reference to the beer made in the first century.1908, Edward Randolph Emerson, Beverages, past and present
    • Gerry Lampert and Gerald Donaldson A full-bodied flow of light and lively photos, cool facts and smooth satisfying fables - a first class brouhaha of Canadian beer-lore through the ages.1975, Saturday Night

Forms of beer-lore

alternative formbeerlore
alternative formbeer lore

Origin of beer-lore

From beer + lore.

Questions about beer-lore

What does beer-lore mean?
Beer-lore means the knowledge, study, history, or science of beer or beermaking; brewology.
What part of speech is beer-lore?
Beer-lore is a noun.

Words near beer-lore in the dictionary

  1. beer-glasses
  2. beer-gut
  3. beer-guts
  4. Beer-Lambert law
  5. Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
  6. beer-lore
  7. beer-off
  8. beer-offs
  9. beer-wort
  10. beer-worts
  11. Beeraahuttaa

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