ale -
a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
beer a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
weissbier,
wheat beer,
white beer a general name for beers made from wheat by top fermentation; usually very pale and cloudy and effervescent
bitter the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth