Ale is a type of beer brewed using a warm fermentation method resulting in a sweet, full-bodied and fruity taste. Historically the terms "beer" and "ale" respectively referred to drinks brewed with and without hops. Over time, "beer" came to refer to all beers, though—after the development of cold fermented beer ("lager")—"ale" came to refer to warm fermented beers only.

Ale could refer to:

• ale, a fermented alcoholic beverage
• Ginger ale, a carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger
• Parish Ale an English festival tradition
• Ale Municipality, Västra Götaland, Sweden
• Ale Hundred, Västergötland, Sweden
• Ale the Strong, legendary Scandinavian ruler
• Onela, a semi-legendary Swedish king from the first half the 6th century.
• Ale, plural of ala, a demon in the Serbian and Bulgarian mythology
• A gathering of morris dance teams
• Alessandro, the nickname of Italian football player Alessandro Del Piero
• Ale, a Finnish term meaning sale (as in "on sale")
• Ale (Polish for "But"), a 2012 album by Dorota Miskiewicz
• European Free Alliance , a European political party
• ALE, Avid Log Exchange file format, Avid film-based databases for transferring info between systems. [1]

ALE could also refer to:

• Aleut language, from its ISO 639 code
• Alice, Texas, USA, from its Amtrak station code
• Allerton railway station, from its National Rail code
• Annualized Loss Expectancy, IT risk assessment methodology
• Anti-Lamenessing Engine
• Apple Lossless Encoder
• Advanced Lipoxidation Endproducts
• Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian, in computational fluid dynamics
• Asymptotically locally Euclidean in general relativity and differential geometry
• Automatic link establishment
• Avid Log Exchange
• Application Level Events, an RFID standard for a software interface
• Ajax Linking and Embedding, OLE for AJAX 
• Address Latch Enable
• Agra Lucknow Expressway, an expressway under construction in Uttar Pradesh, India
• [https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/HOME/ALE (Application Linking and Enabling) Application linking and enabling], a transport protocol by SAP AG