porter's beer

1. 1.

   a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley

   Synonymsporter

   Broaderale

Questions about porter's beer

What does porter's beer mean?

porter's beer means "a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley".

What is another word for porter's beer?

Close synonyms include porter. 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 porter's beer a common word?

porter's 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.