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kvass

/kvahs, kwahs/US // kvɑs, kwɑs //UK // (kvɑːs) //

克瓦斯,卡瓦士,卡瓦斯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Russian beer made from fermenting rye or barley and having a dark color and sour taste.

Examples

  • Another cure is Kvass, a slightly alcoholic beverage made by soaking dried rye bread with sugar and yeast.

  • However, for the true Odessa experience, find a truck selling kvass, a traditional Russian beer brewed from bread.

  • Meanwhile, he became a kvass merchant and exercised this trade for several months.

  • The Slavs kept several wives, and were given to consume large quantities of a strong drink called kvass.

  • One day after luncheon I poured myself out a glass of kvass, and then dropped the decanter, and so stained the tablecloth.

  • There are, beside the ordinary kind, superior forms of the drink, such as apple or raspberry kvass.

  • I mixed him some oil and onion and kvass and bread broken up.