Lick beer

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Foamed over when drawing beer , which collects as a lick beer in the tub below the grille cover

As leakage beer the Übergeschäumte or smeared is beer foam when dispensing beer Denoted at dispensing systems and often when tapping beer from barrels in a covered mostly with a perforated, lattice or slit plate tray under the tap is collected. It was formerly often at a lower price to financially less well off customers served .

Originally, as leak beer beer called that "by the Licking lost the barrels" went and was mostly collected in bowls. Today the term is also used for stale, thin, stale or adulterated beer as well as for an inferior type of beer . In some cases, lick beer is also understood to mean the tendency , leftovers from beer glasses. In the past, licking beer was often given to farmers who fed the nutrient-rich liquid to their pigs .

Lick beer, especially stale beer, was and is still partly used in artisanal wood imitation as a binding agent for the glaze , which is mixed with dry paint in the desired shade and applied to the pretreated workpiece with a flat brush or natural sponge. The painter draws the grain in the glaze with a brush. Finally, the dry glaze is coated with a colorless varnish. The old craft technique that “makes cheap wood look more noble” is also known as beer glaze .

Earlier attempts, also in other countries such as u. a. England , to prevent the reuse or distribution of lick beer for human consumption by legal regulations, often had little success. In particular, “beer residues poured together” were considered to be hazardous to health because of the possible germ load.

The term "Leckbier" is sometimes assigned to individual language regions or regional lects such as " Hamburgischen ", but was or is to be found in other parts of the German-speaking area.

literature

  • Peter Schmachthagen: Do you speak Hamburgisch? Complete volume: Even more terms from the time when grandfather took grandmother. Revised and expanded edition. Hamburger Abendblatt edition, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-939716-96-9 , term no. 395: L: Leak beer .
  • Hamburger Abendblatt: Do you speak Hamburgisch? A playful journey of discovery through the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and its unique language. Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2010, question card No. 395: Leckbier ( parlor game for children and adults; with 600 question cards with terms from and around Hamburg).

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Individual evidence

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