real ale
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Camra’s campaign was about preserving a great British tradition. It focused, necessarily, on the past. It has been a success; more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK, accounting for more than 8% of a beer market that has shrunk by a third overall since 1980."