TOP FERMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does top fermentation mean? 

• TOP FERMENTATION (noun)
  The noun TOP FERMENTATION has 1 sense:

1. a violent kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature high enough to carry the yeast cells to the top of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of ale

  Familiarity information: TOP FERMENTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOP FERMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A violent kind of alcoholic fermentation at a temperature high enough to carry the yeast cells to the top of the fermenting liquid; used in the production of ale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

top fermentation uses a yeast that ferments at higher temperatures than that used for bottom fermentation

Hypernyms ("top fermentation" is a kind of...):

ferment; fermentation; fermenting; zymolysis; zymosis (a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol)