To rise in froth or fermentation.

intransitive. Of ale, wine, or other fermenting liquor: To emit or throw off impure matter by fermentation; to cleanse or purify itself in this way…

intransitive. Of liquor: to undergo fermentation. Also figurative.

To come or rise up in fermentation or ‘working’. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. Of material substances (in early use primarily of dough or saccharine fluids): To undergo the action of a ferment; to suffer…