Small beer (also known as small ale or table beer) is a lager or ale that contains a lower amount of alcohol by volume than most others, usually between 1% and 2%. Sometimes unfiltered and porridge-like, it was a favoured drink in Medieval Europe and colonial North America and up to the 19th century compared with more expensive and inebriating beer containing higher levels of alcohol.
Small beer (also known as small ale or table beer) is a lager or ale that contains a lower amount of alcohol by volume than most others, usually between 1% and 2%. Sometimes unfiltered and porridge-like, it was a favoured drink in Medieval Europe and colonial North America and up to the 19th century compared with more expensive and inebriating beer containing higher levels of alcohol.
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