A beer that must be drunk warm and flat the following morning as punishment for thinking you'd be able to manage a whole can when you came home drunk, but in fact collapsed after just a mouthful.
Not to be confused with Hair of the Dog.
I kicked myself when I saw the almost full Special Brew next to my bed in the morning. Of all the punishment beers in the world, this was one of the worst.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)