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n. A beer that uses a warm fermentation and predominantly pale malt, resulting in a lighter colour.
WordNet
n. an amber colored ale brewed with pale malts; similar to bitter but drier and lighter
Wikipedia
Pale ale is a beer made by warm fermentation using predominantly pale malt.
The higher proportion of pale malts results in a lighter colour. The term "pale ale" first appeared around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at that time. Different brewing practices and hop levels have resulted in a range of taste and strength within the pale ale family.
Usage examples of "pale ale".
In the same way Jack's views on humidity did not prevent him from drinking up his whole private store of East India pale ale, nor from going over their supplies of water with the master again and again, adding up what was left in the 159 gallon leaguers of the ground tier, the 1o8 gallon butts, the hogsheads and half hogsheads, laid bung up and bilge free in the wings, and coming to a most discouraging sum total.
On the far side, there's a lighted Kingsland Premium Golden Pale Ale bar clock.
He looked at the tray, taking in the slices of ham, the egg toast, fillets of some sort of fish, a basket of black bread, a pot of jam, and the twin pitchers, one of pale ale, and the other of cider, with an empty beaker.
When we had changed our wet clothes and drunk a glass of pale ale to the Club's prosperity, one of their number escorted us to an hotel.
As it went down, and as the Admiral was silently occupied with his own tankard of pale ale, Jack tried to dismiss his hurry of spirits, so as to look objectively at the scheme and at the plum it might contain.
It came open with a musical clinking and she looked down on a dusty row of empty pale ale bottles.
Max ordered Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and then asked if they had milkshakes.
And on the low table sat a plate of roast beef sandwiches, a pot of strong English mustard and two tall bottles of pale ale.
He frequently offered him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room, which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows.