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单词 colonial ale
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colonial ale
C2. Australian and New Zealand (now historical). Designating an ale or beer brewed in a colony; spec. one that contains non-traditional ingredients due to the difficulty of obtaining barley, and often considered to be of inferior quality, as in colonial ale, colonial beer, etc. Cf. sense B. 2a(a).
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1823 M. Bacon in Sydney Gaz. 6 Feb. (advt.) Many People have advised me to advertise the good qualities of my Colonial Beer, but I cannot be led to do so—let it speak for itself.
1826 Hobart (Tasmania) Town Gaz. 11 Nov. This Morning—The brig Earl of Liverpool..for Sydney, with..4 tons of potatoes, 10 casks Colonial ale.., and 10 cannisters snuff from this Port.
1857 Illustr. Jrnl. Australasia III. 109 The young men nearly poisoned themselves with their first draught of colonial ale.
1867 J. K. Moillet Mary Ira 9 A glass of thick, saltish, mess called Colonial ale.
1886 D. M. Gane New S. Wales. & Victoria 51 The colonial beer, an insipid drink, is looked upon as poison by those who can afford a bottle of Bass.
1903 H. H. S. Pearse Hist. of Lumsden's Horse xvii. 307 We regaled ourselves with limited quantities of colonial stout in a vain endeavor to keep out the eternal rain.
1954 N. Bartlett Pearl Seekers 109 You could get drunk, at Cossack's other pub, on Colonial ale or ‘shypoo’ at sixpence the quart.
2018 @EmersonWBaker 2 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 20 Sept. 2021) Butch from @EarthEagleBrews and I will be talking about brewing colonial ales and beers, then and now.
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