ETYM Old Eng. beor, ber, AS. beór; akin to Fries. biar, Icel. bjerr, Old High Germ. bior, Dutch and German bier, and possibly Eng. brew. Related to Brew.
Alcoholic drink made from water and malt (fermented barley or other grain), flavored with hops. Beer contains between 1% and 6% alcohol. One of the oldest alcoholic drinks, it was brewed in ancient China, Egypt, and Babylon.
The distinction between beer (containing hops) and ale (without hops) was made in medieval times. Beer is now a generic term including pilsner and lager. Stout is top fermented but is sweet and strongly flavored with roasted grain; lager (German “store”) is a light beer, bottom fermented and matured over a longer period. Modern ales, like beer, are made with hops but are fermented more rapidly at relatively high temperatures. In the US, light beers and lite beers are made with more water, fewer calories, and less alcohol.
(Homonym: bier).
Fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops; SYN. suds.
Slabo alkoholno piće, pravi se od ječma.
Pivo se pije više od 8.000 godina. Na glinenim pločičcama drevnog Vavilona nađen je opis procesa pravljenja ovog pića. Prema nekim podacima, stanovnici Vavilona su 4.000 godina pre nove ere pravili oko 16 vrsta piva. I u starom Egiptu pivo je bilo popularno pa je smatrano sastavnim delom svakodnevne ishrane. Oko 3.000 godina pre nove ere, tu su pravljene tri vrste piva. Prema nekim starim zapisima, majke su deci u školu donosile pivo. Tako, egipatski vladar Ramzes Treći tvrdi da je bogovima namenio 466.303 krčaga piva. I u staroj Kini 2300 godina pre nove ere jedna vrsta piva bila je popularno piće koje se zvalo kljun. I Inke su pravile piće od prevrelog žita pre otkrića Amerike.