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ale

Originally malt liquor brewed without hops, but now generally a synonym for beer.

Mild ale is beer with a sweetish flavour and a fairly dark colour. Pale ale, whether in a cask (in which form it is usually termed bitter beer) or in a bottle, is light in colour and has a pronounced hop flavour.



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Right merrily they dwelled within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither care nor want, but passing the time in merry games of archery or bouts of cudgel play, living upon the King's venison, washed down with draughts of ale of October brewing.
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A bottle of ginger ale cost the saloon ever so much more than a glass of steam beer; and it was up to me, if I wanted to hold my job, to drink beer.
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Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
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