Beer is an alcoholic beverage generally made from malted grain, flavored with hops or a carbonated soft drink made with flavor from roots or other parts of a plant.
(noun)
Bud Light, Corona and Coors are each an example of beer.
Root and ginger are each an example of a beer type.
See beer in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
an alcoholic beverage made from grain, esp. malted barley, fermented by yeast and flavored with hops; esp., such a beverage produced by slow fermentation at a relatively low temperature
any of several soft drinks made from extracts of roots and plants: ginger beer
See beer in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(bîr)
noun
a. A fermented alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and flavored with hops.
b. A fermented beverage brewed by traditional methods that is then dealcoholized so that the finished product contains no more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
c. A carbonated beverage produced by a method in which the fermentation process is either circumvented or altered, resulting in a finished product having an alcohol content of no more than 0.01 percent.
A beverage made from extracts of roots and plants: birch beer.