beer

only beverages containing more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, § 506(3).

A fermented liquor, made from any malted grain, with hops and other bitter flavoring matters. A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as, spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. 120 Ill. 24. The word "beer," when employed in connection with sales in a place where intoxicating liquors are usually sold, means an intoxicating drink. 134 Ill. App. 560.

A malt liquor of the lighter sort and differs from ordinary beer or ales, not so much in its ingredients as in its processes of fermentation. BEES are animals force naturw while unreclaimed; Wallis v. Mease, 3 Binn. (Pa.) 546; Cock v. Weatherby, 5 Sinedes & M. (Miss.) 333. See Inst. 2. 1. 14; Dig. 41. 1. 5. 2; Gillet v. Mason, 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 16; 2 Bla. Com. 392. If while so unreclaimed they take up their abode in a tree, they belong to the owner of the soil, but not so if reclaimed and they can be identified; Goff v. Kilts. 15 Wend. (N. Y.) 550. See Ferguson v. Miller, 1 Cow. (N. Y.) 243, 13 Am. Dec. 519; Idol v. Jones, 13 N. C. 162. See Animal.

A liquor compounded of malt and hops.

In its ordinary sense, denotes a beverage which is intoxicating, and is within the fair meaning of the words "strong or spirituous liquors," used in the statutes on this subject. Tompkins County v. Taylor, 21 N. Y. 175; Nevin v. Ladue, 3 Denio (N. Y.) 44; Mullen v. State, 96 Ind. 306; People v. Wheelock, 3 Parker, Cr. Cas. (N. Y.) 14; Maier v. Slate, 2 Tex. Civ. App. 296, 21 S. W. 974.

— Beer-house. In English law. A place where beer is sold to be consumed on the premises; as distinguished from a "beer-shop," which is a place where beer is sold to be consumed off the premises. 16 Ch. Div. 721.

See Liquor; Prohibition, 3.