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fly-beer Maritimes 
n. a kind of beer brewed from potatoes and hop yeast mixed with molasses or sugar and water.
- 1959 There was the Widow Whinney, she sold ale and cockaninny, / She sold whiskey, gin and fly-beer . . . .
- 1959 There was the Widow Whinney, she sold ale and cockaninny, / She sold whiskey, gin and fly-beer . . . .