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noun a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
originVarious origins: * Borrowed from Italian Ales, a regional variant of Alessi. * Borrowed from Czech and Slovene Aleš. * Borrowed from Spanish Ales.
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