1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

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the same family. These are ate, beer, and porter. Ale is a pale liquor, brewed from lightly-dried malt, and is usually met with, abounding in undecompos– ed saccharine matter and mucilage. Bee'!' is a :fine, strong, well-fermented liquor, darker, less saccharine, and more alcoholic than ale. The finer class of Scotch, Bavarian, and East India ales, properly belong to this class. P

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