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yard of ale

noun

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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