PORTER'S BEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porter's beer mean? 

• PORTER'S BEER (noun)
  The noun PORTER'S BEER has 1 sense:

1. a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley

  Familiarity information: PORTER'S BEER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTER'S BEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

porter; porter's beer

Hypernyms ("porter's beer" is a kind of...):

ale (a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume)