Word Finder - beer

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An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

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Beer is brewed all over the world.

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A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

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A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.

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A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

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Can I buy you a beer?

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A variety of the above beverages.

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I haven't tried this beer before.

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To give beer to (someone)

When he spoke, it didn't sound as if either beer was his first.

He left his beer untouched.

Dusty groused, taking in the lopsided posters of cars and beer bottle décor.

After introductions we gathered around the oak table to get acquainted as more beer and wine flowed.

Dean bumped into Joseph Dawkins, who was coming in from the patio, a beer in each hand.

Quinn returned with a tray, glasses, beer and a bottle of wine, looking somewhat apologetic.

He continued to sip his beer, then added, "Besides, you shouldn't be drinking and driving."

She had barely sat when a servant bearing a tray of coffee and diet root beer -- her favorite --set down the drinks in front of her.

They washed away their disappointment with cold beer and dove into the rest of their treasures.

Beer he could not touch.

What would we say to Borlaug if we met him in a cornfield and ended up discussing the world's problems over a beer somewhere?

The process of fermentation in the preparation of wine, vinegar, beer and bread was known and practised in prehistoric times.

I dug in a tub of iced beer and Quinn and I toasted the two cans as we sat back on Adirondack chairs to enjoy the late afternoon.

The group specially described as indirect taxes includes those on alcohol, wine, beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks, on passenger and goods traffic by railway, on licences to distillers, spirit-sellers, &c., on salt and on sugar of home manufacture.

There is a trade in beer, cattle and grain, sold at eleven annual fairs, three of which last for ten days each.

The Code also regulated the liquor traffic, fixing a fair price for beer and forbidding the connivance of the tavern-keeper (a female!) at disorderly conduct or treasonable assembly, under pain of death.

The quantity of beer is about the same, the greater part of the beer drunk being imported from Germany, while the production of artificial mineral waters has somewhat decreased.

Quinn took a long sip on his beer.

Quinn had an I-told-you-so look on his face as he made a second sandwich and opened a beer.

Besides, you don't have to give up beer.

Give it a couple of days and we'll laugh about it over a beer.

A bunch of under-agers were boozing it up on beer.

Harrigan, smiling as usual, was anxious to get home to his new wife and turned down Dean's offer of a beer.

Dean spent the evening alone, drinking too much beer.

He answered his own question as he sipped on his beer.

Dean rose to get another beer.

He took a long pull on his beer.

We'd talk sports and stuff, and maybe have a beer.

Dean could be back on Collingswood Avenue, listening to John Coltrane or Charlie Parker and patting Mrs. Lincoln, or catching a Phillies game on the tube, or eating pizza and slugging down a cold Coors beer.

The manufactures of Stralsund are more miscellaneous than extensive; they include machinery, playing cards, sugar, soap, cigars, gloves, furniture, paper, oil and beer.

The principal manufactures are firearms, ironmongery, earthenware, woollen cloth, beer, stoneware, zinc goods, colours and salt; in the neighbourhood are iron and coal mines.

Beer is chiefly brewed in Poland and the Baltic provinces.

In 1920 he vetoed a bill calling for censorship of moving pictures and likewise a bill to permit the sale of " 2.7 5 per cent " beer.

In addition to being the principal emporium for the Austrian traffic on the Elbe, Tetschen has a considerable industry, its products comprising chemicals, oil, soap, cotton stuffs, plaster of Paris, glazed and coloured paper, cellulose, beer, flour and preserved fish.

The diseases or sicknesses of beer and wine had from time immemorial baffled all attempts at cure.

Pasteur one day visited a brewery containing both sound and unsound beer.

But we may ask, as Pasteur did, Why does beer or milk become sour on exposure to ordinary air?

The Light Railways Act and the Locomotives on Highways Act were added to the statute book in 1896, and various clauses in the Finance Act effected reforms in respect of the death duties, the land-tax, farmers' income-tax and the beer duty.

Cnossian frescoes show women grouped apart, and they appear alone on gems. Flesh and fish and many kinds of vegetables were evidently eaten, and wine and beer were drunk.

In the neighbourhood are extensive coal-mines and brick-works, and the industries embrace the manufacture of linen, beer, spirits and tobacco.

A strong beer, brewed from Kaffir corn, is a favourite drink.

Beer and distilled liquors are largely manufactured, and fine building stone is obtained from numerous quarries.

Holland is a grain and fruit shipping centre, and among its manufactures are furniture, leather, grist mill products, iron, beer, pickles, shoes, beet sugar, gelatine, biscuit (Holland rusk), electric and steam launches, and pianos.

The industries include the manufacture of soap, tobacco, machinery, paper, bricks and tiles, beer and other goods.

Machines are manufactured here; beer is brewed, and shipbuilding is carried on.

At the latter date besides seventy-three villeins, bordars and serfs there were forty cervisarii, a species of unfree tenants who rendered their custom in the form of beer.

The industries of Breda comprise the 'manufacture of linen and woollen goods, carpets, hats, beer and musical instruments.

The principal industries are wool and cotton spinning, and the manufacture of porcelain, earthenware, boots, soap, oil, sparkling wines and beer.

There are numerous breweries, producing annually about 24,000,000 gallons of beer, spirit distilleries and factories of artificial.

This character is the base of the plan of adding glucose to wine and beer wort before fermenting, the alcohol content of the liquid after fermentation being increased.