(Harl. 221) 9 Alberey,..alebrey [1499 Pynson albry], alebrodium, fictum est.
a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 53 (MED) Ale bre þus make þou schalle, With grotes and safroune and good ale.
1543 T. Becon Invect. against Swearing in (1843) 373 They would taste nothing, no, not so much as a poor aleberry..until they had slain Paul.
1572 J. Jones iv. f. 32v This is also good, to keepe you soluble, taken in a thinne alebury.
1630 J. Taylor 12 His appetite..needed the assistance of cawdle, iulep, alebery.
1672 E. Ravenscroft iii. i. 46 Physicians!..a Caudle, Ale-berry, or a good Posset is worth all your damn'd drugs.
1743 H. Gordon Let. 24 Dec. in (1906) 4 19 He gets meat in the morning and at night, either Bread Berry or Ale Berry.
1766 J. Porter in 40 The deceased took a very little supper, either of ale-berry or kail-brose.
1849 Aug. 478/2 Sir Ludwig buried his large features in a tankard of aleberry.
1906 4 20 His strong sense in declining the Bread and Ale Berry may partly have contributed to the good old age he attained—he lived to be 83.
1973 C. A. Wilson x. 375 Also recommended for sick men was aleberry.
2008 A. Weir viii. 114 ‘Some aleberry, sir, to tempt you,’ she said, placing it on the little table by the King's chair.