"I've noticed that you find all subjects dry and dusty, Old Wolf," Aunt Pol said, going to the barrel and drawing off a tankard of foamy beer for him.

Three men lay about on piled skins, black bear mostly, drinking foamy beer from old mugs.

Later in the day the place starts jumping with people from all walks of life chatting, hoisting mugs of foamy beer and feasting on grilled organic sausages and other hearty fare.

She brought them large, copper-bound wooden tankards of foamy beer.

Peaked caps sit on the bar along with foamy beer.

He was carrying a wooden trencher containing meat and black bread, and a horn of the foamy light beer that Blade had tasted earlier, complaining of thirst, and had found good.

Waitresses wriggle through the crowd carrying foamy beers high above their heads.

Twenty minutes later, Dana and Bowie were lifting frosted, conelike pilsner glasses of pale, foamy beer and clinking them together in a toast to better times.

The place was moderately crowded, even at midday, and the six aproned outlaws from Narstil's camp hustled back and forth behind a rough plank counter, drawing foamy beer and collecting money.

All starched formality fades when guests don plastic bibs and hoist mugs of foamy beer.