It's a light beer, so is perfectly chuggable, unlikely the fizzy stuff.

The Dioptral System of numbering prisms alone possesses the great desideratum of establishing a direct and simple relation between the prism-dioptry and the lens-dioptry, as demonstrated by the authors' law, that a lens decentered one centimeter will produce as many prism-dioptry as the lens has dioptry of refraction.

Ryghte soo entryd he in to the chamber and cam toward the table of syluer / and whanne he came nyghe he felte a brethe that hym thoughte hit was entremedled with fyre whiche smote hym so sore in the vysage that hym thoughte it brente vysage / and there with he felle to the erthe and had no power to aryse

It is plaguily annoying to want a dinner, and have the appetite of a Dando — to be asked for a large debt, when your pockets cannot conceal a solitary shilling […]