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- German · borrowed fromtrüb“not clear, turbid”
- English todaytrub
Borrowed from German trüb (“not clear, turbid”). Related to droff (“turbid, sorrowful, sad”)), Dutch droef (“sad, miserable”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
trub
Today it means: The layer of sediment that appears at the bottom of the fermenter after yeast has completed the bulk of the fermentation. Full definition →
German trüb