[Sca-cooks] small beer

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear replied to me with:
> You also get the question, was it bottom or top fermented?  Ale was
> traditionally top fermented.  Beer (as in the hopped lagerbier produced by
> the Germans) is bottom fermented.

 From discussion here and elsewhere, I think the top vs. bottom fermenting
definition of beer vs. ale is a modern one. The period differance seems to
be whether hops (or maybe it was any herbs) was added.


> It probably doesn't matter, as the encompassing term is beer.  Small beer
> could easily have begun as an ale and gone on to being a lager as well.

Yes. That is why I raised the question.
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