Beer from Prussia. Obsolete.

a strong beer with good keeping qualities, brewed in the spring.

a strong beer brewed at Lubeck.

In ancient Egypt: a kind of malt beer.

beer used or consumed in a household; spec. beer of ordinary quality suitable for everyday use.

attributive with the sense ‘stored, sold, or brewed in a bottle’, as bottle beer, bottle cider, etc. Cf. bottled, adj. 3.

A kind of beer brewed from wheat malt and flavoured with aromatic herbs, originally made at Brunswick (Braunschweig) in Germany.

(a) beer that is old or stale; (b) = old ale n.

Six-shilling beer. In later use plural. Also old six (see quot. 1890).

Short for. four-shilling beer (see quot).

? beer employed for conversion into vinegar.

(See quot. 1689)

English regional (East Anglian). A strong variety of beer, brewed esp. in Norfolk.

A kind of strong ale traditionally brewed in October. Now chiefly historical.

= sense 2.

beer made for consumption on board ship.

beer kept in a butt, as opposed to a hogshead or other cask.

(apparently) a kind of weak or medium-strength beer.

A type of beer usually identified as a type of porter. Frequently in entire butt (see entire, adj. 2b). Now historical.

A strong variety of wheat beer, formerly brewed at Louvain. Obsolete.

see quot. 1795.

A Tibetan beer typically made from barley, rice, or millet.

a light ale or beer brewed from treacle and water.

beer that is stored for ripening before being drunk.

a fermented liquor made from the sea sandwort, Honckenya (formerly Arenaria) peploides (family Caryophyllaceae), a succulent perennial plant of…

= India pale ale n. at India, n. 4.

a pale amber-coloured beer, with a higher than average alcohol and hop content, originally to help preserve the beer when exported to British…

A kind of beer made chiefly at Brussels and in its neighbourhood. Cf. Pharaoh, n. 2.

slang. Beer (originally, beer brewed in Australia). Now rare.

Bass's ale or beer, the ‘India Pale Ale’ or ‘Bitter Beer’ manufactured by Messrs. Bass & Co. of Burton-on-Trent. Also with a and plural, a…

In full bock beer. A strong dark-coloured variety of German beer. Also, a glass of this or any other beer.

a brand or strength of beer. See also in sense A. 2.

Used attributively and absol. to designate a type of ale (frequently in Burton ale): (a) = Bass, n.6; (b) (see quot. 1953).

(a) South African a drink similar to mead, made of honey fermented by the addition of leaven and (occasionally) the larvae of bees; (b) beer made or…

In Russia and some Eastern European countries: beer made from hops and barley malt; a glass of this.

A strong beer brewed in Belgium.

a Californian effervescent beer.

A type of sour, fizzy, strong Belgian beer made by blending new and aged Lambic beers before a secondary fermentation.

A style of Belgian beer with a distinctive sour cherry flavour, traditionally made by slowly fermenting lambic beer with morello cherries. Also more…

Originally and chiefly British = best bitter n. at compounds 2a.

(A type of) sharp, acid, or harsh alcoholic drink, as draught bitter beer, rough wine, or (now esp.) rough cider.

In full keg ale, keg beer, keg bitter. Ale, beer, etc., from a keg (see quot. 1972).

= India pale ale n. at India, n. 4.

A strong home-brewed traditional Kenyan beer made from fermented millet, maize, or sorghum flour.

A traditional home-brewed beer of the Chagga people of Tanzania, made from fermented bananas and finger millet flour.

Beer produced in a microbrewery; a particular variety of this, a microbeer.

Beer produced in small quantities, usually for distribution locally or to beer connoisseurs; a particular variety of this. Cf. microbrewery, n.

new beer with which a small quantity of fermenting wort has been mixed to make it ‘work’.