lager

¹

[lah-ger, law-]

noun

1. Also called lager beer. a beer stored from six weeks to six months for aging before use.

verb (used with object)

1. to age (beer) usually by storing in tanks at just-below freezing temperatures for several weeks or months.

lager

²

[lah-ger]

noun

South African.

1. laager.

lager

¹

/ ˈlɑːɡə /

noun

1. a light-bodied effervescent beer, fermented in a closed vessel using yeasts that sink to the bottom of the brew Compare ale

lager

²

/ ˈlɑːɡə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of laager

Word History and Origins

Origin of lager¹

1835–45; short for lager beer, half adoption, half translation of German Lagerbier. See lair ¹, beer

Word History and Origins

Origin of lager¹

C19: from German Lagerbier beer for storing, from Lager storehouse

Example Sentences

The team also evaluated two lagers from large Swiss breweries.

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Beloved in colonial America, hard cider lost favor in the mid-19th century as crisp lagers ascended; the temperance movement and Prohibition felled cider-apple trees.

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If your people are beer people, think versatile: an amber ale or clean lager, plus a solid N/A counterpart.Athletic makes good ones, though many skew hoppy, so keep your audience in mind.

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Foster's beer drinkers in the UK will soon find their lager's alcohol strength cut to 3.4%.

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Seemingly nonstop construction has since turned Amazon workers and various contractors into regulars at the watering hole, where Speelman now stocks Texas-made Shiner Bock lager to appeal to transplants.

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Related Words

• ale