Yorkshire square

noun

A two-storey fermentation system involving a shallow chamber with a walled deck above it. Cooled wort is fermented in the lower chamber, while the yeasty head settles on the deck above, and has the fermenting wort periodically pumped into it from below.

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Meanings

nounYorkshire square (plural Yorkshire squares)

plural Yorkshire squares

  1. A two-storey fermentation system involving a shallow chamber with a walled deck above it. Cooled wort is fermented in the lower chamber, while the yeasty head settles on the deck above, and has the fermenting wort periodically pumped into it from below.
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Yorkshire square. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yorkshire%20square

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