Green’s Dictionary of Slang

far and near n.

(US) beer.

1892		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘The Rhyme of the Rusher’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. n.p.: He stuck to the I’m so to drown his cares, / While I went for the far and near.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1941		West. Australian (Perth) 12 Apr. 4: What is it we ask for? The answers’ clear, / The near and far for far and near.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 99: Beer can also be [...] far an’ near.