19 Metaphors for beer

I know that there are many poor people yet in Lancashire who use decoctions of herbs instead of teamint and balm are the favourite herbs for this purpose; but I could not imagine what this herb beer could be, at a halfpenny a bottle, unless it was made of nettles.

The beer was the most frequent subject of protest in the Commonwealth times.

The non-intoxicating 'Bad Sproos Beer' was only twopence a quart and helped to keep off scurvy.

"] The King has done a popular act in abolishing the German titles held by members of his family, and Mr. Kennedy Jones has won widespread approval by declaring that beer is a food.

'Bristol Beer' was eighteen shillings a dozen, 'Bad malt Drink from Hellifax' ninepence a quart.

So they sat down, and when the lad took out his bread, behold it was turned into a splendid meat pie, and his sour beer became delicious wine!

But the drink for tropics must not be fermented liquor: beer and wine are headachy and livery things.

Root-beer had been Mitchell's main intoxicant heretofore, but as he and the noisy Miss Dunlap sipped the effervescing wine over their ice-cream, they pledged themselves to enjoy Monday evenings together, and she told him, frankly: "Mitch, you're the nickel-plated entertainer, and I'll never miss another Monday eve unless I'm in the shops or the round-house.

Beer were a better alternative.

Beer and porter answer much better than any kind of spirit, and are worth pains and cost to obtain.

The beer was a weak mixture, which I should think would make one fall over from its weight before it would intoxicate him.

'Bristol Beer' was eighteen shillings a dozen, 'Bad malt Drink from Hellifax' ninepence a quart.

The beer is not Bass's ale, but it contains from two to five per cent. of alcohol.

Wine, coffee, beer and other refreshments are to be had; but beer is the favorite beverage.

"Beer is a good thing, and I heard Padre Camorra say this morning that the lack of energy noticeable in this country is due to the great amount of water the inhabitants drink.

The fierce thirst, which, with these men, is not a consequence, because it is a thing that was and is and ever will be, was brought vividly to their minds by this unnecessary adstimulation; and now the bar-keeper, whose lager-beer was wellnigh exhausted, from its connection with ham-sandwiches, had enough to do to furnish them with whiskey, of which stimulant there was but too large a supply on hand.

If Englishmen were heedless of foreign philosophers, they were quick to notice that the fruit of the vine had failed, and forthwith the unheard-of novelty of taverns where beer and mead were sold sprang up in France, probably by the help of those English traders whose beer was the marvel of Frenchmen.

He said, 'Miss Beer, do you know, I know what sand is, it's little tiny tiny stones.'

Norwegian reformers hold that beer is the great promoter of temperance, and encourage its use as a beverage, although every saloon in the kingdom is closed on Sundays, on all holidays, and Saturday afternoon, which is the regular pay day for the working classes.

19 Metaphors for  beer