Schwarzbier
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Schwarzbier is a noun meaning A dark lager that has an opaque, black colour with hints of chocolate or coffee flavours, and is generally around 5% ABV, similar to stout in that it is made from roasted malt, which gives it its dark colour.
Meaning
A dark lager that has an opaque, black colour with hints of chocolate or coffee flavours, and is generally around 5% ABV, similar to stout in that it is made from roasted malt, which gives it its dark colour.
Example Sentences
These black lagers had flavor all right, but none of them were real schwarzbiers.
Heralded for their dark colors and bittersweet chocolate flavors, schwarzbiers are represented on U.S. shores by Köstritzer Black Beer, imported by Friedlin & Assoc. Inc.
Once, at a traditional charcoal-making plant, I got a bottle of schwarzbier, a kind of black lager, and another day, just east of the former East Germany–West Germany border, I happened on Kukki’s Erbsensuppe, a roadside stand selling bowls of thick split-pea soup with bacon that had opened just after reunification.
Word Forms
- schwarzbiers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dunkel, doppelbock, festbier, bock, stout, maibock.
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