steam beer

[Mark.Mandel at LHSL.COM]

Yet another putative explanation: When I lived in Berkeley I was told that
the beer had very fine bubbles, giving rise to a "steamy" look in the
liquid; but as I wasn't a beer drinker then, I never had an opportunity to
check it out.

                  Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist
 Dragon Systems, a Lernout & Hauspie company : speech recognition
 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02460, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com