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(The brewery kept its doors open by making "near-beer," a concoction that the government allowed that contained less than .05 percent alcohol, but the company must have struggled.)

Kate Kelly: Eighty Years to Right a Wrong: Baseball, Politics, and the Press 2010

Joe doesn't drink -- most famously seen when he met in the Rose Garden Beer Summit with Obama, Professor Gates and Officer Crowley -- and Joe alone drank near-beer.

Stanton Peele: Three Things Joe Biden Opposes: Alcohol, Female Sexuality and Swearing 2010

(The brewery kept its doors open by making "near-beer," a concoction that the government allowed that contained less than .05 percent alcohol, but the company must have struggled.)

Kate Kelly: Eighty Years to Right a Wrong: Baseball, Politics, and the Press 2010

Their subculture developed "secret handshakes, practical jokes," and "buying and drinking near-beer even though some of us hated it."

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

Raj, Howard, and Leonard all took a shot at chatting her up, with only Raj even coming close to keeping her interested - at least until he found that he was "buzzed" on near-beer.

Archive 2009-03-08 Toby O'B 2009

Crazy Uncle Joe Biden - you know, the one who drank near-beer at the President's White House garden beer bash - actually proposed changing the name of the NIDA.

Stanton Peele: What If We Had A National Institute Of Addiction? 2009

Before the birth of our twin girls, I remember when life used to be about working out, getting stuff waxed, haircuts, long brunches, lively dinner parties with near-beer flowing, and meandering throug ...

Max Mutchnick: They're Not Water Bottles, They're Babies 2009

Did any one else grow up with near-swears, like near-beer?

Dammit! Someone else wrote something on cussing! « Dating Jesus 2009

Before the birth of our twin girls, I remember when life used to be about working out, getting stuff waxed, haircuts, long brunches, lively dinner parties with near-beer flowing, and meandering through art galleries in SoHo.

Max Mutchnick: They're Not Water Bottles, They're Babies 2009

Before the birth of our twin girls, I remember when life used to be about working out, getting stuff waxed, haircuts, long brunches, lively dinner parties with near-beer flowing, and meandering throug ... digg

Max Mutchnick: They're Not Water Bottles, They're Babies 2009