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Definition of Light beer
1. Noun. Lager with reduced alcohol content.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Beer
Literary usage of Light beer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Control of the Drink Trade: A Contribution to National Efficiency, 1915-1917 by Henry Carter (1918)
"Licensees or secretaries of clubs who decided to sell light beer under the terms of
... The morning sale of light beer was not to commence before 9 o'clock. ..."
2. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1915)
"And do they know that the brewing of light beer actually has diminished drunkenness
just as the driving out of light beer and light wine increases ..."
3. The Year Book of the United States Brewers' Association by United States Brewers' Association (1915)
"Do they know that Jefferson urged particularly liberal treatment of brewers on
the ground that good light beer alone would drive out the whiskey that was ..."
4. A Text-book of True Temperance by Michael Monahan (1909)
"And in Russia the consumption of light wine and light beer amounts practically
to nothing, ... It never happens to the German, whose drink is light beer; ..."
5. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
""Moreover, Georgia tried from 1908 to 1916 a 'near' or light-beer experiment,
but gave it up, because, according to Judge Broyles, of Atlanta, a light-beer ..."
6. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"If the taxation of light beer containing 3 per cent or less of alcohol were so
reduced that it was possible to sell it at twopence per pint, whilst that of ..."