But it can be hard to know how many units are in a can of beer or bottle of wine.
She said the government's VAT hike had "hit pubs hard" by adding 5p on to the average price of a pint, and 2p on a can of beer in the supermarket.
"He had a can of beer in the car, that's why he didn't want to stop, " his father, Jaime Melo, told Brazilian news website G1, adding that he had been going through "problems with his girlfriend".
She could see the lines, and at the end of them the trembling shadows of Bert, or Mike, or Stan, spending an idle Sunday away from the wife with a brolly and a can of beer.
Patents and copyrights won't mean a can of warm beer when a market is global and your competitors reside offshore.
So whether you see the blossoms or the vomit, a half full cup of sake or a half empty can of beer, the future of Japan is in the hands of the Japanese, not the New Economy gurus we read about in TIME, Newsweek and Fortune.
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In the first part, a teaser with several references to the British event of the decade premiered on August 25, in which a regular can of Brahma beer (the royal) and a glass cup (the commoner) are treated as celebrities, even with speculations about the can possibly being pregnant.
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Andrei, who looked like a Russian George Clooney, was drinking a litre can of Baltica beer and heading north, beyond the town of Neryungri, to work in a mine.
John Daly once hit a tee shot off the top of a beer can during a pro-am.
With a single tap I can snap a pic of the newest beer to grace my palate, take some notes and tag it with the style and brewery.
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Tequilas, mescal, well-made cocktails, traditional-style hibiscus water and a choice of Mexican beer can accompany all of the above.
Research into a self-cooling can for beer or soda led to a new type of packet, called "NanoCool, " to chill injectable drugs for up to a week.
"A lot of people thought we'd be crushed like a beer can in the ice, " he says.
Mr. Ecko, founder of his namesake billion-dollar fashion company, posted a request for a cake resembling a can of Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer for his now seven-year-old son's birthday.
Early this summer the Boston Beer Company, parent of the venerable Sam Adams brand, will do something they have never done in this country in their 29 years of existence: sell beer in a can.
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In the legislature on a normal day a lawmaker may have his head back, mouth open, snoring loudly in his chair, while next to him another sips from a beer-can wrapped in a piece of paper.
There are a lot of things you can have delivered to your home on a monthly basis: magazines, hot sauces, underwear and beer are just a few.
Finally, it is a snug and rustic barroom, where you can partake of all that beer and meat.
Even many American beer lovers would rather abstain than sip from a can of mass-produced swill.
Champagne and all you can drink beer from 10 am to 4pm with a beautiful view of the pool.
For that matter, the beer can be made by a homebrewer in a batch of just a couple dozen bottles.
Recreation at the end of the day consists of listening to Mexican pop music and drinking beer for a dollar a can.
If a beer is too crazy with hops, it can distract from the milder flavors of the meal, so consider saving that Imperial IPA for another occasion.
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And you can always buy a cheap cold beer or two from a supermarket when you get tired of walking, then sit in Nyhavn alongside the tourists drinking expensive beers, or in a park.
But the intangible rewards of traveling a litter-free country road, at least until the next beer can gets tossed from a passing car window, is priceless.
Each container can hold 24, 000 pints of chilled beer, enough to satisfy the thirst of a small town.
And can Muslims reconcile piety with a culture where the rights of the individual (say, to order a beer) are given precedence over communal beliefs?
"I can't think of any political leader in any country who I'd like to have a beer with, " Mr. Buiter said.
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