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Definition of Lager beer
1. Noun. A general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September.
Generic synonyms: Beer
Specialized synonyms: Munchener, Munich Beer, Bock, Bock Beer, Light Beer, Octoberfest, Oktoberfest, Pilsener, Pilsner, Malt, Malt Liquor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lager Beer
Literary usage of Lager beer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Brewing Industry and the Brewery Workers' Movement in America by Hermann Schlüter (1910)
"lager beer Until the early forties of the nineteenth century, ... lager beer,
which had been brewed in Germany since the thirteenth century, was not known ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Fig 5, Plate I., shows refrigerators, employed in Messrs Allsopp's lager beer
brewery, at work. ... lager beer."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"lager beer, being a malt liquor, is to be regarded as an Intoxicating liquor ...
lager beer falls within the term "intoxicating liquors" if the use of it is ..."
4. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney, Thomas H. Calvert (1917)
"That there shall be levied, collected, and paid in lieu of the tax of $1 now
imposed by law, a tax of $1.50 on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, ..."
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