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SAT-SUN Joust and battle performances, sword fighting demonstrations, entertainment, Artisan Marketplace, kids’ activities, food vendors, alehouses, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2018

Between new bakeries and old alehouses, it's a great neighborhood for a ristretto and a croissant, a shopping trip and a cup of stellar gelato.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2014

The story involves the Lampitt family, a large clan whose money springs from 18th century alehouses.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, the soldiers never carried them while loitering about alehouses and wharves, or the stables of the Afric Queen.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Around him there were cries in the night and, from the alehouses, vulgar laughter.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman