The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beerhouse \Beer"house`\, n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
Wiktionary
n. A tavern that sells beer.
Wikipedia
A beerhouse was a type of drinking establishment created in the United Kingdom by the 1830 Beerhouse Act, legally defined as a place "where beer is sold to be consumed on the premises". Public houses at the time were issued with licences by local magistrates under the terms of the Retail Brewers Act 1828, and were subject to police inspections at any time of the day or night. The proprietors of beerhouses on the other hand simply had to buy a licence from the government costing two guineas per annum, equivalent to about £150 as of 2010. Until the Wine and Beerhouse Act 1869 gave local magistrates the authority to renew beerhouse licences, the two classes of establishment were in direct competition.
Usage examples of "beerhouse".
Sometimes there was talk in the little beerhouse that the Chancellor and Fuehrer of the Reich regretted this reminder of the humble nature of the Hitler family.
Earlier in the evening Hitler had dispatched Scheubner-Richter to Ludwigshoehe to fetch the renowned General, who knew nothing of the Nazi conspiracy, to the beerhouse at once.
Generals Keitel and Jodl, the chief officers of OKW, went along to participate in the beerhouse festivities.
The patch of road appeared to be uninhabited, without the shabbiest beerhouse to cheer it.
I peer at these people as they scurry in a landscape which seems concertinaed by giant hands, the women cowled in grubby shawls, the men clouded with beerhouse reek, the children quick and pale and subtly dangerous, wondering if this is when the change into true poverty begins.
Professors and students disliked to be taken so far from their lodgings and their beerhouses, and the old university had been quite within the city.