lager

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Unlike the heavier draughts and stouts, this lager was a plain and light-flavored beer.

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  1. noun A type of beer of German origin that contains a relatively small amount of hops and is aged from six weeks to six months to allow sedimentation. Also called lager beer.

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  • Blinds me and knocked me colder'n January lager, as we say in the RPAF. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • She ordered a pint of lager, then slowly looked round the scruffy tavern. —  Deadline for Murder—Val McDermid—Lindsay Gordon 03
  • Using Tasmania's pristine water and top quality malt and hops, this lager is on par with some of the world's finest beers.
  • I am constantly surprised that this is a lager, as it reminds me of a Pilsner. —  Ontario Blogs Feed
  • "As his bodyguards got closer one fan swilled Hicks junior with a pint of lager -- and given the price of a pint in the Sandon after the match that's quite a protest," wrote Liverpool Echo reporter Tony Barrett, who witnessed the exchange. —  Texas Rangers
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  1. German, short for Lagerbier : Lager, storehouse, cellar (from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, bed, lair; see legh- in Indo-European roots) + Bier, beer.

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  1. from German lager, an abbreviation of lagerbier, lager-beer: see lager-beer.
 

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