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rice beer

rice beer

4.9
An alcoholic drink made from fermented rice often served warm with Japanese food
  • noun
translation icon : sake
  • Have you ever tried rice beer?

Examples

  • The aroma of freshly brewed rice beer filled the festival hall.

  • He ordered a cup of rice beer with his sushi at the Japanese restaurant.

  • Traditional ceremonies in some Asian countries include the sharing of homemade rice beer.

  • I love drinking rice beer during summer.

  • At the festival, we enjoyed a glass of traditional rice beer alongside the delicious food.

  • The restaurant offered various drinks, but the highlight was their homemade rice beer.

  • During the winter celebration, they served steaming cups of rice beer to keep everyone warm.

Synonyms

beer
vsrice beer
∞ 1.0

A drink made from grains and hops that contains alcohol

is made from fermented rice and is sometimes served hot not from hopped cereals
sake
vsrice beer
44 7.0

A Japanese alcoholic drink made from rice

is served hot sometimes and presented as a rice-derived fermented beverage

Surface Forms

rice beer singular
rice beers plural

Morphology

rice + beer

The meaning 'an alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'rice' (the ingredient) with 'beer' (the beverage): it denotes beer made from rice. This noun+noun ingredient composition is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will very likely infer the intended meaning.

Etymology

Rice beer comes from the simple image of cooks or farmers leaving cooked rice in jars to ferment until it turned into a drink like beer, often shared at festivals. So, rice beer today means an alcoholic drink made by turning rice into a fermented 'beer' that people drink with food or at celebrations.