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to bottle beer

to bottle beer

2.7
Put beer into glass containers for sale or storage
  • phrasal verb
  • /ˈbɑːtəl bɪr/
translation icon : embotellar cerveza
  • I have this strange belief that bottled beer is much fancier than canned beer, which isn't always true.

Examples

  • After fermentation, they will bottle the beer to sell at local markets.

  • I watched them bottle the beer before it was distributed to stores.

  • The brewery plans to bottle the beer next week for the upcoming festival.

Synonyms

to bottle
vsto bottle beer
37 1.6

To put liquid into bottles for sale or storage

focuses on commercial packaging for storage sale and distribution
to bottle water
vsto bottle beer
2.0

To put water into a container to keep or carry it

is aimed at preparing beverages specifically for sale and wide distribution

Surface Forms

bottle beer infinitive
bottled beer past
bottled beer past participle
bottling beer present participle
bottles beer third person singular

Morphology

bottle + beer

The meaning 'to package or put beer into bottles' is directly and transparently derived from combining the verb 'bottle' (to fill or pack liquid into bottles) with the noun 'beer' (the beverage). This V + N compositional pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common verb–object construction and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.

Etymology

Bottle beer comes from the simple picture of pouring beer into many bottles on a production line and then closing them so they can be kept or sold. So today bottle beer means 'to put beer into bottles for selling or storing'.