Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Beer

BEER, the fermented infusion of some cereal, variously flavored, usually the infusion of barley flavored with the bitter of hops. The varieties in trade are very numerous, as lager and Bavarian, white and brown, sweet and bitter, many beers of local names, some celebrated, as Milwaukee, St, Louis, Munich, Pilsen, and so on. Lager beer was formerly a winter beer as distinguished from summer beer. There is also a March beer, a bock beer, and very many other varieties. The root beers are non-alcoholic drinks flavored with sassafras or some other similar sub- stance. See Brewing.