Trub

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation. uncountable
  2. 2
    A truffle countable, obsolete, uncountable

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dregs

Etymology

Borrowed from German trüb, from Old High German truobi, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (English droff (“turbid, sorrowful, sad”)), cognate with Dutch droef (“sad, miserable”).

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