Beer: alternatives and connections

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who…

Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast

To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

Strong malt liquor.

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry.

A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.

Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.

An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any…

Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

A bitter principle extracted from hops.