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beer noun In making whiskey, the fermented mash solution produced during the first stage of distillation, sometimes drunk but more often redistilled for higher alcoholic content. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly Southern Appalachians”]
1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 134 [After the conversion of sour mash into carbonic acid and alcohol] the resulting liquid is technically called the “wash,” but the blockaders call it “beer.” 1937 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) The still house [is] the house for a still to keep beer warm and from freezing. 1990 Aiken Stories 199 The malt was mixed with ground cornmeal and water, then cooked to become “mash.” The mash was allowed to ferment and produce a “beer.” The beer was then distilled to become “moonshine.”