Ale

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Ale	A beer brewed from a top-fermenting yeast with a relatively short, warm fermentation. The top fermenting yeast perform at higher rates at this warmer temperatures than do yeast's used to brew lager beer, and their byproducts are more evident in taste and aroma. Fruitiness and esters are often part of an ale's character. In these malt beverages, the wort is fermented with strains of yeast which tend to rise to the top of the vessel and form a yeast head at the end of fermentation.

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A beer brewed from a top-fermenting yeast with a relatively short, warm fermentation. The top fermenting yeast perform at higher rates at this warmer temperatures than do yeast's used to brew lager beer, and their byproducts are more evident in taste and aroma. Fruitiness and esters are often part of an ale's character. In these malt beverages, the wort is fermented with strains of yeast which tend to rise to the top of the vessel and form a yeast head at the end of fermentation.