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yard of ale
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The amount of ale that fills a very tall tapering beer glass (approximately 1 yard). Drinking it as quickly as possible is a traditional pub game.
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James McAvoy's character, Charles Xavier, is filmed downing a yard of ale in an Oxford pub.
Hawke has some previous in the field: he once held the record for skulling a yard of ale.
Braver drinkers can try a yard of ale (£9) or a 25ml shot (£8) of the Dutch brewer 't Koelschip's 70% strength beer.
Everyone has their speciality, from Betty Turpin's Hotpot to Big Hefty's ability to drink a yard of ale in 12.42 seconds and not decorate nearby walls with special carrots.
Here, too, Bob Hawke most affirmatively did swallow a yard of ale (two and a half pints) in 11 seconds, securing a place in the Guinness World Records, as well as (later) the Australian premiership.
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Yard-of-ale glass, tall, extremely narrow drinking glass that was known in England from the 17th century.
Yves 50% Nvo 50% And finally, thanks to Merry Frizmas for this: "I know about Yards of Ale, but is there such thing as a metre of vodka?
Most of the rest of this mob had pissed away three or four years at whichever Brideshead-style Oxbridge college they'd blagged or bribed their way into, drinking yards of ale and buggering each other.
A pint of ale is $2.75.
Ask my opinion about their latest batch of ale?
The reporter talked to them over a round of ale.
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