bottom fermentation

1. 1.

   a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of lager

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Questions about bottom fermentation

What does bottom fermentation mean?

bottom fermentation means "a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of lager".

Is bottom fermentation a common word?

bottom fermentation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.