schwarzbier

See also: Schwarzbier

English

Köstritzer schwarzbier

Etymology

From German Schwarzbier (literally “black beer”).

Noun

schwarzbier (countable and uncountable, plural schwarzbiers)

1. 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

• Schwarzbier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia