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 sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered ( through self-administered CPR ).

Under the 1830 Act any householder who paid rates could apply, with a one-off payment of two guineas ( roughly equal in value to £ today ), to sell beer or cider in his home ( usually the front parlour ) and even to brew his own on his premises.

The beer was usually served in jugs or dispensed directly from tapped wooden barrels on a table in the corner of the room.

The monthly quota depends on their income but is usually about five bottles of liquor or 100 bottles of beer.

The shoplifters were usually teenagers who stole small items such as chocolates, cigarettes and beer.

While in English, such classifiers are usually absent (" four chairs ") or optional (" two bottles of beer " or " two beers "), a classifier is almost always used in Thai ( hence " chair four item " and " beer two bottle ").

It is usually eaten with rice and washed down with beer.

Pachamanca or huatia, a process similar to barbecueing, is also popular, and is usually served with corn beer ( chicha ) in traditional settings.

Moe usually serves Duff beer on tap.

Apart from the wilderness, it is usually the saloon that emphasizes that this is the " Wild West ": it is the place to go for music ( raucous piano playing ), women ( often prostitutes ), gambling ( draw poker or five card stud ), drinking ( beer or whiskey ), brawling and shooting.

His appearances typically included him rummaging through a pocket or bag or other container and listing the things inside, usually ending with " a check for a short beer ".

In Turkey, mussels are either covered with flour and fried on shishs (' midye tava '), or filled with rice and served cold (' midye dolma ') and are usually consumed after alcohol ( mostly raki or beer ).

They humorously chronicle the lives of a couple of drunken middle-aged layabouts, Jim Pooley and John Omally, who confront the forces of darkness in the environs of West London, usually with the assistance of large quantities of beer from their favourite public house, The Flying Swan.

Beersel is known for its ' boterham met plattekaas en radijzen ' a slice of bread with white cheese and radishes, usually served with a geuze beer, and for its ' mandjeskaas ' ( literally ' basket cheese '), which is a white cheese stored in little baskets.

Synonymous with beer joint and similar terms, honky tonks usually serve beer or hard liquor and may have had a bandstand and dance floor.

Bavarian-style wheat beer is usually served in 500 ml, vase-shaped glasses.

While the crowds usually while away the time drinking beer and eating sausages, the young men busy themselves with decorating the maypole to get the symbols of various trades representing the region into the right position.

Barley was grown primarily to be brewed into beer, but it was also eaten, usually in dish called " pottage.

A blind pig was usually a dive where only beer and liquor were offered.

However, it became possible to isolate and propagate favored yeast strains in the same manner as was done in the beer industry, and it eventually became practical to propagate yeast in a slurry with a composition similar to beer wort, usually including malted barley and wheat flour.

House kobolds usually live in the hearth area of a house, although some tales place them in less frequented parts of the home, in the woodhouse, in barns and stables, or in the beer cellar of an inn.

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 word originally referred to a drink made with water or " small beer " ( a weak beer ) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740.

Depending on the time spent fermenting, the sugar content, and the quality of the ingredients and preparation, pruno's alcohol content by volume can range from as low as 2 % ( equivalent to a very weak beer ) to as high as 14 % ( equivalent to a strong wine ).

Every three months a weak beer was made available in the canteen for sale.

If fermented, a weak beer called chicha de maca can be produced.

Others have hypothetized that it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer respectively liquor or essence.

Eventually, Mojo becomes tired, weak, and overfed from eating junk food and drinking beer with Homer.