schwarzbier
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See also: Schwarzbier
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Schwarzbier (literally “black beer”).
Noun
[edit]schwarzbier (countable and uncountable, plural schwarzbiers)
- 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.
- 1981, Market Watch, page 29:
- 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.
- 2005, The New Brewer, page 32:
- These black lagers had flavor all right, but none of them were real schwarzbiers.
- 2013, Matt Gross, The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
Further reading
[edit]Schwarzbier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia