Meaning of beer stick | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short, spicy, cured meat sausage.
2. A beer flight.
3. A device for tapping into a keg of beer.
4. A stick that has been impregnated with wild yeasts, used by Vikings to aid the fermentation of beer.
5. A thin straightedge used to cut the top of the foam of a glass of beer.

Examples

“To dry beer sticks in conventional oven, add 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring to meat mixture.”

“We load a few more supplies that will be beneficial for processing: large heavy plastic bags, twisties, and my seasonings for making sausage, brats, polish, and beer sticks.”

“Locally made ham sausage, koubasa, farmers' sausage, garlic coil, bison smokies, venison bratwurst and beer sticks; Spanish chorizo, Lebanese lamb kebabs, French merguez and Balkan cévapčići.”

“I also had beer sticks (mini salami sausages generally more at home on a bar leaner next to a beer-swilling male), which I had never taken before but which I thought would be a nice change from all the sweet snacks I usually ate, muesli bars, electrolyte-replacement drinks, bananas and chocolate.”

“Landjäger, made of pork and beef, resemble beer sticks sold at American deli counters and are eaten in dried form.”

“There were a few regulars amongst them who came every day for lunch (a meat pie with tomato and barbeque sauce, a hamburger, two vanilla slices and a beer stick was a typical order) .”

“A beer stick (£10) gets you six 1/3-pint glasses of different draft beers; great for a group.”

“Lorin cracked another beer stick and passed it around. It tasted smoky and acrid and it was like the first beer Flint had ever drunk.”

“Baron got behind the bar, moved to the sole beer stick, and drew Clint a mug.”

“[…] behind the beer-sticks and the bottles, and even the cans of Budweiser and Ströhs may have had a swipe of the rag.”

“Under the grime, Colin could make out the familiar images of Davey Grogan's grandfather and great-grandfather, proud men dressed in white aprons and bow ties, posing behind the beer stick and with horse-drawn beer delivery wagons.”

“Through the glass front doors -- tables and booths on the left, the worn wooden long bar on the right, and behind the beer sticks, blessedly, Stella, our friend and sensible respite from all that "Hi! How're you doin'" "You bet!" "Oh, sure!" barkeep word slop that's the ruination of decent tavern talk almost everywhere.”

“"I can" replied Otinga, taking his beer stick from its holder and putting into the beer, "if you can get me the proper things to make the medicine..."”

“[…] beer stick, almost a magic wand in ancient brewing, that survives today in the production of African sorghum beer and kvass in parts of Scandinavia.”

“So even well into the Medieval era, fermentation was a mystical process. Vikings, for example, kept a "beer stick” that would kickstart fermentation by exposing wort to its accumulated yeast microbes.”

“The bands at 580 cm², (PhSiCl₂) and at 510 cm², (Ph_(2Si)(OH)₂) were measured using a "beer stick", a log ruler, by placing infinity on I₀ and measuring the peaks by the baseline technique.”

“He wiped off the foam with a beer stick which resembled a white ruler, and set the goblet down in front of Tom.”

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