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bottom fermentations

bottom fermentations is the plural of bottom fermentation.

Meaning of bottom fermentation

Noun

bottom fermentation (countable and uncountable, plural bottom fermentations)

  1. A slow alcoholic fermentation process carried out at low temperatures during which the yeast sinks to the bottom of the liquid. Used in brewing lager-type beers.
    • Carlton was mainly equipped to produce top-fermentation bulk beer, the old fashioned English ale. But the public taste had changed. On 27 April the brewers reported to the board that the public taste now was largely for bottom-fermentation beer or lager.1987, Keith Dunstan, The Amber Nectar, Ringwood: Vicking O'Neil, page 90

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What is bottom fermentations the plural of?
Bottom fermentations is the plural of bottom fermentation.

Words near bottom fermentations in the dictionary

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  5. bottom fermentation
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