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beer stick

beer stick noun: a short, spicy, cured meat sausage.

Noun

beer stick (plural beer sticks)

  1. A short, spicy, cured meat sausage.
    • To dry beer sticks in conventional oven, add 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring to meat mixture.1994, America's Favorite Wild Game Recipes, page 118
    • 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.2009, Loren Bartels, Twice The Luck: A Diary Of A Minnesota Moose Hunt, page 78
  2. A beer flight.
    • 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) .1988, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, page 206
    • A beer stick (£10) gets you six 1/3-pint glasses of different draft beers; great for a group.2013, Samantha Cook, Claire Saunders, The Rough Guide to Kent, Sussex and Surrey
  3. A device for tapping into a keg of beer.
    • Baron got behind the bar, moved to the sole beer stick, and drew Clint a mug.1951, J.R. Roberts, Lincoln's Revenge
    • […] behind the beer-sticks and the bottles, and even the cans of Budweiser and Ströhs may have had a swipe of the rag.1987, Sebastian Barry, The Engine of Owl-light, page 180
  4. A stick that has been impregnated with wild yeasts, used by Vikings to aid the fermentation of beer.
    • […] 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.2017, Pete Brown, Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast and the Nature of Beer, page 196
    • 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.2021, Paul Deines, HowExpert Guide to Craft Beer, page 20
  5. A thin straightedge used to cut the top of the foam of a glass of beer.
    • 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.1973, Alan Richard Bond, Kinetics of the Hydrolysis of Diphenyldichlorosilane, page 20
    • He wiped off the foam with a beer stick which resembled a white ruler, and set the goblet down in front of Tom.2021, Donald Henderson Clarke, Lady Ann

Examples of beer stick in a sentence

  • 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.2010, Amy Jo Ehman, Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home for Dinner, page 182:
  • Landjäger, made of pork and beef, resemble beer sticks sold at American deli counters and are eaten in dried form.2022, Wendell G. Johnson, Katharina Barbe, Modern Germany:
  • Lorin cracked another beer stick and passed it around.2020, Keith Brooke, Genetopia:
  • 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!2010, Gary Cahill, “Corner of River and Rain”, in Best Genre Short Stories Anthology #2, page 11:

Forms of beer stick

pluralbeer sticks

Questions about beer stick

What does beer stick mean?
Beer stick means a short, spicy, cured meat sausage.
How do you use beer stick in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is beer stick?
Beer stick is a noun.
What is the plural of beer stick?
The plural of beer stick is beer sticks.

Words near beer stick in the dictionary

  1. beer runs
  2. beer snake
  3. beer snakes
  4. beer soup
  5. beer soups
  6. beer stick
  7. beer sticks
  8. beer tent
  9. beer tents
  10. beer ticket
  11. beer tickets

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