White and red beers

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Sep 1 05:35:02 UTC 2011


Other than a sentence under "mawkish," the OED does not have "white beer."

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1887    W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 308   ‘White beer’, a liquor of paramount mawkishness.
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Brown ale is listed, so surely "white beer" and "red beer" qualify.

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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