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From: bobm@rtech.UUCP (Bob Mcqueer)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER (Near Beer)
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 17:31:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 17:31:15 1985
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I've seen "Near Beer" around recently.  I don't believe this is the
"non-alcoholic" beer originally referred to, however.  I think Near
Beer is slightly alcoholic.  I seem to remember my parents telling
me about something being marketed under that name during prohibition -
it had an alcohol content just low enough to be legal.  There was also
a quote concerning it, attributed to Babe Ruth, if I remember correctly:

"Whoever named that stuff was a damned poor judge of distance"

Bob McQueer
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