Meaning of berele | Babel Free

Definitions

A flask-like glass vessel with a bulbous body and a narrow neck typically used for serving tej.

Examples

“Filtered into bottles and served in small berele, bulbous, narrow-necked flasks, the cloudy-gold brew tastes simultaneously sweet and pungent.[…]¶ Thus 1 or 2 cups can easily get you dizzy, especially if using berele to drink it.[…]Thus, if tasting tej in berele for the first time, make sure to stand up every once in a while to check if you're feeling too dizzy to walk.”

“Opened in October, the tasting room features semi-sweet and semi-dry honey wine in [sic] served in either wine glasses or a large Ethiopian glass drinking vessel called a berele.”

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