A person who does not understand who he is,” the political scientist ales Ancipienka once explained, “is actually a Belarusian.
The complex varieties of flavors that characterize these ales span floral tones and aromas of toasted grains and nuts.
Brown ales are known for their sweet caramel tinge, though some medium-body types can have stronger tastes.
ales had resumed her work on the farm, but not with the spirit and vivacity of old.
So ales Manfielde was condemned and executed; but not before she made her confession.
The sudden departure of ales at this inopportune juncture was another upset.
There are extensive seed warehouses and testing grounds near Reading; and the Kennet and Windsor ales are in high repute.
The various methods of raising money for the Church and poor have already been examined under the heading of ales.
The excellent quality of the Burton ales was long ago surmised to be due mainly to the well water obtainable in that town.
Robert Jones and ales both said they did, though they had never ventured there at midnight to see.
Old English ealu "ale, beer," from Proto-Germanic *aluth- (cf. Old Saxon alo, Old Norse öl), perhaps from PIE root meaning "bitter" (cf. Latin alumen "alum"), or from PIE *alu-t "ale," from root *alu-, which has connotations of "sorcery, magic, possession, intoxication." The word was borrowed from Germanic into Lithuanian (alus) and Old Church Slavonic (olu).
In the fifteenth century, and until the seventeenth, ale stood for the unhopped fermented malt liquor which had long been the native drink of these islands. Beer was the hopped malt liquor introduced from the Low Countires in the fifteenth century and popular first of all in the towns. By the eighteenth century, however, all malt liquor was hopped and there had been a silent mutation in the meaning of the two terms. For a time the terms became synonymous, in fact, but local habits of nomenclature still continued to perpetuate what had been a real difference: 'beer' was the malt liquor which tended to be found in towns, 'ale' was the term in general use in the country districts. [Peter Mathias, "The Brewing Industry in England," Cambridge University Press, 1959]Meaning "festival or merry-meeting at which much ale was drunk" was in Old English (see bridal).