Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bottom_fermentation

1 sense of bottom fermentation

Sense 1
bottom fermentation -- (a slow kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature low enough that the yeast cells can sink to the bottom of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of lager)
       => zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment -- (a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol)