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Serves up the foreign beer endlessly from the very start of speech (6)

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I believe the answer is:

verbal

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'speech' is the definition.
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'serves up the foreign' is the wordplay.
'serves' becomes 'verb' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'up' says the letters should be written in reverse (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'the foreign' becomes 'la'.
'la' backwards is 'al'.
'verb'+'al'='VERBAL'

'beer endlessly from the very start of' is the link.
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(Other definitions for verbal that I've seen before include "Spoken, oral" , "Spoken (abuse)" , "Relating to words" , "Communicated in words" , "Expressed in words" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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