1) British bar 
a place where one could sell beer for payment of an annual fee of two guineas, promoted by the government in the 1830s to divert the poor from gin.
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`.{sfnp|Stroud|2003|p=72|ps=} Public houses at the time were issued with licences by local magistrates under the terms of the Retail Brewers Act 1828, and were subj.....
• (n.) A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.
Beer'house` noun A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. 
an establishment licensed to serve only liquors fermented from malt, as beer, ale, or the like.