Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.

There was a small sideboard with some empty beer bottles on it and perhaps fifteen wooden chairs.

But the beer hall riot in Subic had been unusual, too, and Walt Perry was convinced that Doc had started it through some expert tactics in rabble rousing.

From now on, his was going to be a man's world: the North Woods, duck blinds at dawning, beer and poker and male secretaries.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

Jonas of Bobbio records that Columbanus was active in Bregenz, where he disrupted a beer sacrifice to Wodan.

Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies.

The most successful was the American Association ( 1881 – 1891 ), sometimes called the " beer and whiskey league " for its tolerance of the sale of alcoholic beverages to spectators.

Hops had been used for medicinal and food flavouring purposes since Roman times ; by the 7th century in Carolingian monasteries in what is now Germany, beer was being made with hops, though it isn't until the thirteenth century that widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is recorded.

Before the thirteenth century, beer was flavoured with plants such as yarrow, wild rosemary, and bog myrtle, and other ingredients such as juniper berries, aniseed and ginger, which would be combined into a mixture known as gruit and used as hops are now used ; between the thirteenth and the sixteenth century, during which hops took over as the dominant flavouring, beer flavoured with gruit was known as ale, while beer flavoured with hops was known as beer.

The first were nearly all in the downtown of Buenos Aires ( el égido de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires ), and soon Polish brewers began industrial production of beer: San Carlos in the province of Santa Fe, Río Segundo and Córdoba in the province of Córdoba, Quilmes ( Quilmes beer ) and Lavallol on the outskirts of La Plata ( in Buenos Aires Province ), San Miguel de Tucumán in the province of Tucumán and on the outskirts of the cities of Mendoza and Salta.

However, the first documented use of hops in beer as a bittering agent is from the 11th century.

In Britain, hopped beer was first imported from Holland around 1400, but hops were condemned in 1519 as a " wicked and pernicious weed ".

In 1471, Norwich, England, banned use of the plant in the brewing of ale ( beer was the name for fermented malt liquors bittered with hops ; only in recent times are the words often used as synonyms ), and not until 1524 were hops first grown in southeast England.

The first ice beer marketed in North America was Canadian Ice, which was introduced by Molson in April 1993, although the process was patented earlier by Molson's competitor, Labatt ( now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev ), instigating the so-called " Ice Beer Wars " of the 1990s.

According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea, which had been published for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty, sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily ( 5 / 6 of the usual British gallon, equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres ).

The first light ale introduced in Canada, Labatt 50 was Canada ’ s best-selling beer until 1979.

After his first few years as a student, during which he spent much time " drinking beer and fencing ," Weber would increasingly take his mother's side in family arguments and grew estranged from his father.

Mesopotamian settlers were some of the first people to make beer and wine.

Porter was the first beer to be aged at the brewery and dispatched in a condition fit to be drunk immediately.

It was the first beer that could be made on any large scale, and the London porter brewers, such as Whitbread, Truman, Parsons and Thrale, achieved great success financially.

In the first year, 400 beer houses opened and within eight years there were 46, 000 across the country, far outnumbering the combined total of long-established taverns, pubs, inns and hotels.

It was the pub that first introduced the concept of the bar counter being used to serve the beer.

The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting ( b. Netherlands 1659-d. Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742 ) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.

Many of the total of 14 banquet and beer halls had a Wagnerian theme-indeed, the very name of the complex was taken from the Wagner opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four parts of the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, although this name did hark back to the building's planned former role as a concert venue.

The name porter was first used in 1721 to describe a dark brown beer popular with street and river porters of London that had been made with roasted malts.

It is a 4. 5 % abv bitter, first brewed as a bottled beer ( 4. 5 % abv ) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in 1990.

The first Stella Artois beer was exported to the European market in 1930.

To make beer or sake, the sugar needed to produce alcohol must first be converted from starch.

However, new players on the scene — beer, wine, and spirits — became very popular in Japan, and in the 1960s beer consumption surpassed sake for the first time.

* Adolphus Busch's brewery, Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, Missouri, first markets Budweiser, a pale lager, as a nationally sold beer.

* Hops first mentioned in connection with beer brewing

* The first pils beer is brewed in the Czech city of Pilsen.

One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.

*: This beer was put on the market in 1903 and is Miller Brewing's oldest brand.

Junior newspaper reporter Hector Puncheon has a beer in a pub, and discovers later that someone put a bag of cocaine in his coat pocket.

" My job was to put a little sugar in each of the bottles ," Milan Cimbora said, part of the final fermenting process that gives beer its fizz.

During a two-year dormancy the company was bought by the Hols firm, and with help of many friends of Maffersdorfer beer the brewery was put back into operation in summer of 2004, trading under the name of Konrad.

In 1772 a scheme for brewing beer without malt or hops put the brewery in debt by £ 130, 000 (£ 13 million today ).

The law originated in the city of Ingolstadt in the duchy of Bavaria on 23 April 1516, although first put forward in 1487, concerning standards for the sale and composition of beer.

She told an anecdote about how someone in the family had put a can of beer in Hank's casket.

An apocryphal early illustrative example for this was when one super market chain discovered in its analysis that customers that bought diapers often bought beer as well, have put the diapers close to beer coolers, and their sales increased dramatically.

Alewives would put out a sign — a hop pole or ale-wand — to show when their beer was ready.

I found that publicans, beer sellers and butchers are subscribing to this imposture ... the collector told me that the object of the Skeleton Army was to put down the Salvationists by following them about everywhere, by beating a drum and burlesquing their songs, to render the conduct of their processions and services impossible ... Amongst the Skeleton rabble there is a large percentage of the most consummate loafers and unmitigated blackguards London can produce ... worthy of the disreputable class of publicans who hate the London school board, education and temperance and who, seeing the beginning of the end of their immoral traffic, and prepared for the most desperate enterprise.

In Minnesota after WWII and into the mid-century, " Hamm's " was a common synonym for beer, as in " It's been a long day-let's get a Hamm's ", or packing for a summer picnic, " Don't forget to put in the Hamm's!

Putting together the case that would incriminate Angela ( she had the opportunity to steal the poison on the morning of the crime, she had previously put salt in Amyas's glass as a prank and she was seen fiddling with the bottle of beer before Caroline took it down to him ; she was very angry with Amyas ), he demonstrates that Caroline herself would have thought that Angela was guilty.

Because of mining subsidence, one side of the pub has a pronounced list — so much so that it is difficult to put one's glass on a table without spilling beer.

Some state that a wedge of lime was put on bottled beer like Corona to disinfect the rim or to keep flies from landing on it.

" 1 ) Go to a crossroads of Exu on a Monday or Friday near midnight, if possible in the company of a member of the opposite sex ; 2 ) greet Ogum with a bottle of light beer, a white or red candle, and a lighted cigar ; 3 ) greet Exu Sir Block-Streets-of-the-Souls by opening seven bottles of rum ( cachaça ) in the form of a circle, lighting seven red and black candles, and offering seven cigars ; 4 ) put inside a vase ( alguidar ) and mix the following: manioc flour ( farinha da mandioca ), palm oil ( azeite-de-dendê ), and peppers ; 5 ) put on the ground in the middle of the circle the name of the person whom one wishes to hurt, and, using a knife, stab this with violence, asking Exu to attend to one's request.

While the cashier was gone, the robbers picked up a case of beer in the front of the store, put the beer in their car, and drove off.

In Calgary, and Edmonton, as well as the parts of Gleichen, Banff-Cochrane and Clover Bar, that were within the Calgary and Edmonton city limits, a second question was put on the ballot asking if " mixed drinking " should be permitted in beer parlours.

As Homer lies unconscious in the hospital bed, Bart confesses that he was the one who put him in the hospital with his shaken beer can prank.

It was put up for sale in October 2004 on eBay and purchased by Manchester pub landlord Chris Ollerenshaw ( for £ 15, 102. 03 ) who had intentions to transport it to his pub and display it in his beer garden.