SC - liqueurs and jenever (longish)

[Christina van Tets]

In a message dated 00-06-28 01:23:24 EDT, you write:

<< I've gotten two different answers to the question of what was the 
differance
 between an ale and a beer.
 
 One is that beer uses top feeding yeasts while ale uses bottom feeding 
yeasts.
 This may be a modern definition.
  >>

You have that reversed (sort of).  Actually, an ale is a top fermenting 
beverage, brewed at or near room temperature, using saccaromyces cerivisae 
(sp?) yeast, while a lager is a bottom fermenting beer, brewed at cooler 
temperatures using saccharomyces uvarum (among others).  Beer is a generic 
term for both.  Derived from the Germanic, if I am not mistaken...

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