"I was wondering if they could have used near-beer.

He drank his near-beer and nursed another, settling the bill after each round.

Stretching luxuriously, she popped the tab on a can of near-beer.

In 1930, three booths were placed along the front windows for soda pop, sandwiches, and near-beer.

Among the more popular products were Bevo, a beer substitute or "near-beer", and Anheuser-Busch malt syrup.

It also produced a small amount of "near-beer" called "Kobru", a beverage containing less than one-half of 1% of alcohol.

The Kingsbury name and label originated during the Depression as a near-beer because of the ban on alcohol during Prohibition.

These corporate brewers reacted to a new taste for sweet drinks in a public that had switched to sugary soft drinks and "near-beer" during prohibition.

With the onset of Prohibition in 1919, The Schmidt Brewery began producing soft drinks and a successful near-beer called Select.

Sure, being a Republican lawmaker in the Democrat-dominated State Assembly is something akin to being a bottle of near-beer at a frat party.

It was in the unhappy years when the blight of prohibition was already on the land, and the only bottles on the shelves were bevo and near-beer.

Even the people who make Budweiser have so little faith in the buying power of their core audience of males that they're test-marketing Catalina Blonde, a near-beer expressly designed for women.

He became president and general manager of the Mohawk Products Company; the merged Buffalo Brewing Company and the Cooperative Brewing Company formed during Prohibition to make near-beer.

Once Prohibition was enacted, the brewery managed to survive by brewing near-beer (a brew of less than 0.5 percent alcohol), syrups and sodas - such as root beer, becoming a local bottler of national brands.

With the passage of the Volstead Act, brewing stopped and the company's name changed to the Sweetwater Beverage Company, making a non-alcoholic drink named "Green River" and a near-beer called "Wyoming Beverage."

As some troops aimed video cameras at the President, he told them that many Americans did not appreciate the burdens the soldiers bore and said he sympathized with their lives in the mud and their meals of "near-beer and vegetable lasagna."

Low-alcohol beer (also called light beer, non-alcoholic beer, small beer, small ale, or near-beer) is beer with low alcohol content or no alcohol, which aim to reproduce the taste of beer without the inebriating effects of standard alcoholic brews.

Unavoidably, National Brewing Company was forced to shut down with the onset of the 13 year Noble Experiment in 1920; larger competitors, however, such as Gunther and Globe Brewing (maker of arrow beer), managed to sidestep Prohibition by producing near-beer.