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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for June 16, 1999
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beer [n. BIR]
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Traditional beer is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting malt,
flavored with the female flowers of hops vines. Nowadays, there are
hundreds of kinds of beer including beers without alcohol, and beers
made from all sorts of grains, roots, and other plant parts.
What they all have in common is a foamy head and a rich flavor.
Until the 15th century all foamy, fermented beverages were known as
ale, and a beer was almost any kind of drink. The original root was
Late Latin bibere (to drink). In the 16th century, a distinction
arose between beor, which was made with hops for flavoring, and ale,
made without hops. Today, that distinction has faded.
More "drinking" words from bibere:
beverage: a drinkable fluid, but not usually water
bib: protective garment worn while eating; to drink heartily
bibulous: given to consuming alcoholic drinks; highly absorbent
imbibe: to drink; to absorb as if by drinking
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