beer stick

noun5

1. •
   A short, spicy, cured meat sausage.

   • To dry beer sticks in conventional oven, add 1 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring to meat mixture. — 1994
2. •
   A device for tapping into a keg of beer.

   • Baron got behind the bar, moved to the sole beer stick, and drew Clint a mug. — 1951
3. •
   A beer flight.

   • There were a few regulars amongst them who came every day for lunch (a meat pie with tomato and barbeque sauce, a hamburger, two vanilla slices and a beer stick was a typical order) . — 1988
4. •
   A thin straightedge used to cut the top of the foam of a glass of beer.

   • The bands at 580 cm², (PhSiCl₂) and at 510 cm², (Ph_(2Si)(OH)₂) were measured using a "beer stick", a log ruler, by placing infinity on I₀ and measuring the peaks by the baseline technique. — 1973
5. •
   A stick that has been impregnated with wild yeasts, used by Vikings to aid the fermentation of beer.

   • […] beer stick, almost a magic wand in ancient brewing, that survives today in the production of African sorghum beer and kvass in parts of Scandinavia. — 2017