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The process involves boiling grains and water into a mixture called the wort, the liquid that is fermented to become beer.

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  1. noun A plant. Often used in combination: liverwort; milkwort.
  2. noun An infusion of malt that is fermented to make beer.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English wyrt; see wrād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wort, wurt, wert, wirte, wrt, from Anglo-Saxon wyrt, a plant, = Old Saxon wurt, root, flower, = Old High German Middle High German G. wurz, root, plant, = Icelandic urt (for vurt), also spelled jurt (perhaps borrowed) = Swedish ört = Danish urt = Gothic (Moesogothic) waurts, plant, root; also in diminutive form, Dutch wortel = Old High German wurzala, Middle High German G. wurzel, root. Cf. root and radix.
  2. from Middle English wort, worte, from Anglo-Saxon wyrte (in comp. max-wyrte, literally ‘mash-wort’), wort, new beer, = Middle Dutch wort, wort, new beer, = Low German wort = German würze, wort, spice, seasoning, = Icelandic virtr = Swedish vört = Norwegian vyrt, vort, wort, from Anglo-Saxon wyrt, etc., root: see wort.
 

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