Pace Beer
The beer you sip on like it's a royal decree so you can keep drinking real beer without getting completely trashed.
He sipped his pace beer like it was a king's wine and then drank his real beer like it was a prison sentence.
She took a slow sip of pace beer so she wouldn't pass out from the fifth beer.
The pace beer was like a lifeline before he went on a full-blown beer binge.