Word Finder - beers

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An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

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Beer is brewed all over the world.

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A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.

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A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.

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A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

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Can I buy you a beer?

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A variety of the above beverages.

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I haven't tried this beer before.

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One who is or exists.

As to the booze, Byrne only had two beers here with dinner.

Her paranoia faded with the first round of beers and disappeared completely by the third.

Dean spent the next hour nursing two beers and telephoned again, still without success.

According to the time-stamped dinner receipt, Byrne had dined on fish, and had two beers as Hunter had remarked.

He went to the kitchen for two more beers.

It took two more beers and 30 minutes before a couple of men looking totally out of place in spit-and-polish business suits entered the bar.

Nope. Our only stop was for a couple of beers.

I only had two beers.

He said he had two beers.

Darian retrieved more cheeseburgers and beers from the kitchen.

The land on which the town is built belongs to the De Beers Company.

By 1889, in the whole group of mines, Kimberley, Dutoitspan, De Beers and Bultfontein, open pit working was practically abandoned.

Meanwhile mining below the bottom of the pits by means of shalts and underground tunnels had been commenced; but the full development of modern methods dates from the year 1889 when Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit, who had already secured control of the De Beers mine, acquired also the control of the Kimberley mine, and shortly afterwards consolidated the entire group in the hands of the De Beers Company.

The workings at De Beers had extended into the still more deeply seated granite in 1906.

Figure 9, Plate I., shows the top of the De Beers' crater with basalt overlying the shale.

For the extraction and treatment of the blue ground the De Beers Company in its great winding and washing plant employs labour-saving machinery on a gigantic scale.

The annual output of diamonds from the De Beers mines was valued in 1906 at nearly £5,000,00o; the value per carat ranging from about 35s.

The Kimberley shales, which are penetrated by the De Beers group of pipes, were, however, certainly not the source of the carbon at the Premier (Transvaal) mine, for at this locality the shales do not exist.

Specimens of pyrope with attached or embedded diamond had previously been found in the blue ground of the De Beers mines.

On the other hand many tons of the somewhat similar eclogite in the De Beers mine have been crushed and have not yielded diamond.

A yellowish octahedron found at De Beers weighed 4282 carats, and yielded a brilliant of 2882 carats.

The discovery a few weeks later of the much richer mines at Bultfontein and Du Toits Pan, followed by the great finds at De Beers and Colesberg Kop (Kimberley) caused Jagersfontein to be neglected for several years.

Up to 1887 the claims in the mine were held by a large number of individuals, but coincident with the efforts to amalgamate the interest in the Kimberley mines a similar movement took place at Jagersfontein, and by 1893 all the claims became the property of one company, which has a working arras ement with the De Beers corporation.

The diamond-mining industry is almost entirely under the control of the De Beers Mining Company.

From the De Beers mines at Kimberley have come larger numbers of diamonds than from all the other diamond mines of the world combined.

In 1870 Dutoitspan and Bultfontein diamond mines were discovered, and in 1871 the still richer mines of Kimberley and De Beers.

The manufacture of a big gun, which was able to compete with the Boer " Long Tom," at the De Beers workshops, under Rhodes's orders, and by the ingenuity of an American, Mr. Labram, who was killed a few days after its completion, forms one of the most striking incidents of the period.

Sunday was eight hours of listening to Vinnie's uninformative babble, followed by a TV ball game, a couple or three beers and a steak.

The corporate minutes of De Beers on June 20, 1946, reflect this growing apprehension.

Aww he will be chuffed, he's half asleep at the mo, too many beers me thinks!

I cracked open a few bottles of wine and some beers, and we all settled back to enjoy Terry Wogan's witty banter.

A list advertising the top ten foreign bottled beers is also displayed.

British in its sourcing of produce, beers and lagers, it is inspired by the traditional brasseries (breweries) of Europe.

Traditional beers are produced at their brewery in Cockermouth, which also offers brewery tours.

Until recently, all draft beers were delivered to pubs in oak casks, and each brewery employed coopers to make and repair them.

Andy's much the same but does occasionally dabble in American bottled beers, which we readily mock him for.

Chill the beers and practice your Texan drawl because the Hills are back!

The scarcity of diamonds is completely fabricated by the De Beers family.

With a fine selection of beers, Blackfriars makes a homely rendezvous for the avid pub goer.

Once done, we found a local hostelry where we marked on the checkpoints over a couple of beers.

They are served from tall fonts which are presumably powered by electricity rather than gas as the beers taste entirely kosher.

The comfortable, cozy lounge bar carries a large selection of beers, wine, liqueurs and spirits, including single malts.

A diamond is forever Meaning advertising slogan for De Beers ' diamonds.

I grab two beers from the unopened bar and take one over to Alex, who's hacking away at pigs trotters.

We try many other beers here and my tasting notes become sadly unintelligible.

The pub has an extensive wine cellar to complement its menu and a wide selection of local ales and beers.

Mauldon's traditional beers are brewed only from the finest East Anglian malted barley, traditional English hops, water and brewing yeast.

Having found that some of the commonest diseases of beer, such as yeast turbidity and the objectionable changes in flavour, were caused not by bacteria but by certain species of yeast, and, further, that different species of good brewery yeast would produce beers of different character, Hansen argued that the pitching yeast should consist only of a single species - namely, that best suited to the brewery in question.

Gladstone, before he accepted office, had denounced the policy of annexing the Transvaal; his language was so strong that he was charged with encouraging the Beers to maintain their independence by force; his example had naturally been imitated by some of his followers at the general election; and, when be resumed power, he found himself in the difficult dilemma of either maintaining an arrangement which he had declared to be unwise, or of yielding to a demand which the Boers were already threatening to support in arms. The events of the first year of his administration added to his difficulty.

With these Diamonds resembling more the Ratners ' variety than De Beers ' in the first period, more Swansea goals seemed inevitable.