liquid bread

Synonym of beer.

Noun

  1. Synonym of beer.
    • “The well-known Dr. Kitchener,” however, has discovered, that homebrewed beer is “liquid bread.” - 1841, “To the Rev. Mortlock Daniell of Ramsgate”, in The New British and Foreign Temperance Magazine, page 231:
    • As “liquid bread” (see Schiefenhovel and Macbeth 2011), the nutritional benefits of beer are commendable, with barley-beer containing more B vitamins and the essential amino acid lysine than barley bread. - 2015, Kaori...

    Synonyms: beer

Origin

From being a liquid made from the ingredients used to make bread (grain, yeast, water).