Glossary
Gyle
A single batch of beer, or the fermenting wort itself — a brewery’s batch number is traditionally its gyle number.
Trade usage. Established by practice in the trade rather than by any formal definition.
Related
- Parti-gyle — The practice of splitting one mash into several beers.
More vocabulary
Arrested fermentation · Barrel ageing · Batch sparging · Biotransformation · Blending · Bottle conditioning · Bottom fermentation · Burtonisation · Cask conditioning · Centrifugation
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Last reviewed 2026-08-16.