bottom yeast

noun

a yeast whose cells, in the manufacture of wine and lager beer, fall to the bottom as a sediment.
Also called sediment yeast.

Origin of bottom yeast

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby bottom yeast

bottom of the ladder, bottom out, bottom quark, bottom round, bottom time, bottom yeast, bottom-feeding, bottom-fish, bottom-liner, bottom-of-the-line, bottom-up