beer sticks

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
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
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
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
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