lager beer

Questions about lager beer

What does lager beer mean?

lager beer means "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".

What is another word for lager beer?

Close synonyms include lager. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lager beer a common word?

lager beer 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.