Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling beer or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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beer +‎ -like

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Examples

  • That isn't the highest-alcohol beer I've ever had -- if I'm not mistaken, that would be Dogfish Head's wonderful World Wide Stout (rating: 90), 18% alcohol and yet miraculously well-balanced -- but it certainly is the beer that feels less beerlike.

    Alex Remington: Mikkeller Black Ale: Being the Strongest Beer In Scandinavia Isn't a Good Thing 2010

  • Q1: What type of beer or beerlike drink do you drink the most at home?

    The impending instant ramen sticker shock: part 2 of 2 2007

  • It also has been called “a malt-free beerlike alcoholic beverage”, a “quasi-beer”, and probably dozens of other scatologically derived epithets by beer lovers in different states of intoxication.

    Bean beer. . .?!? » Japundit Blog 2005

  • That quest for beerlike qualities in wines led me to compile these suggestions of beers for wine drinkers.

    STLtoday.com Top News Headlines 2010

  • It uses the energy it gains from eating to rapidly multiply, and the by-product of this growth is ethanol - a kind of alcohol that gives raw dough its beerlike smell - and CO2, which is a gas.

    Baking and Books 2009

  • The brand was then hailed as a marketing coup, an ingenious way to sell beer-or rather, a clear, beerlike solution-to consumers who eschewed traditional suds.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • I picked up King Arthur White Whole Wheat last year and it gave all my baked goods this bizarre beerlike flavor - not a nice wheaty flavor and certainly not something akin to the taste of white flour (and it wasn’t the recipes, because I’d used them many times before).

    White Whole Wheat Biscuits | Baking Bites 2009

  • The remaining gardening equipment would go to the renters of the neighboring plots who in the summertime had relaxed with her father after a long day’s work in their gardens and drank kvass, the beerlike beverage made from fermented black bread.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • The remaining gardening equipment would go to the renters of the neighboring plots who in the summertime had relaxed with her father after a long day’s work in their gardens and drank kvass, the beerlike beverage made from fermented black bread.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

  • The remaining gardening equipment would go to the renters of the neighboring plots who in the summertime had relaxed with her father after a long day’s work in their gardens and drank kvass, the beerlike beverage made from fermented black bread.

    State of the Union Brad Thor 2004

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