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bottom yeast

noun

  1. a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bottom yeast1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

Microscopic examination of the yeast, however, showed the same to be bottom yeast.

Of the higher sugars raffinose is fermented by juice from bottom yeast, but more slowly than cane sugar or maltose.

It has not, however, been possible to transform a typical top yeast into a permanent typical bottom yeast.

Sometimes a bottom yeast may for a time exhibit signs of a top fermentation.

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