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  Brian's Belly - The Beer Belly: Young's Oatmeal Stout
That's the essence of barleywine in a nutshell.
Barleywines are among the most powerful, rich, and potent denizens of the beer world.
In the brewery, barleywines are often made using first runnings from a parti-gyle mashing scheme (where two batches are made from a mash, one high gravity, one low gravity).
www.briansbelly.com /beerbelly/youngsoldnick.shtml   (1501 words)

  
 BeerFestivals.org - Beer Traveller Series - The Winter's Tale: Barleywine in Alaska
Barleywine, which originated in England several centuries ago, has gained a following on this side of the Atlantic.
Barleywine packs a big alcoholic punch, so sampling it is the ultimate test of pacing yourself.
In addition to the barleywines, they had an incredible variety of local beers to choose from.
www.beerfestivals.org /archive/bt/barleywine.htm   (880 words)

  
 beercook.com :: make beer chocolates and confections, stout ganache and barleywine banana splits
I love the taste of barleywine, stout, and fruit ales with chocolate, and when I bake with chocolate, I always try to add beer to the batter.
When the barleywine mixture just bubbles and is hot, pour steaming blend into the 8 ounces chopped chocolate and stir slowly with a spatula, until the chocolate melts.
Place bananas and barleywine in an ovenproof dish and sprinkle with 1 to 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar and toasted almonds.
www.beercook.com /articles/beerchoc.htm   (1050 words)

  
 Press: Picks, pans and barleywine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
And early this summer, Alaskan’s Big Nugget Barleywine was conceived and put to rest in a mineshaft that hasn’t seen a miner’s headlamp pierce the darkness or heard the chink of a pick on rock in many a year.
Barleywine is a great style to cool condition for extended periods since it takes months for this style to mature and blend together its individual and richly complex components.
Absent is the characteristic bitter afterbite associated with an American-style barleywine.
www.anchoragepress.com /newarchives/document5cce.html   (790 words)

  
 Epinions.com - World Class Barleywine: Willimantic's Willi Whammer
When one speaks of complexity in a beverage like beer or wine, he or she is referring to the different flavors and sensations present in the drink, and the ways in which they work together.
All of the barleywines were amber in color with light carbonation and minimal head formation.
The 1997 had a rich and sweet malty nose, palate was very high octane 9.5% alcohol, sweet malt, raisin, the perfect sipping beer for a cold winters night, this complex brew was my favorite of the three years brews I tasted.
www.epinions.com /content_1942790276   (670 words)

  
 Death By Barleywine (Beer Brewing / Beer Ingredient (Recipe) Kits)
Death by Barleywine is a true barleywine, that is a VERY strong ale.
Barleywines are almost chewy they are so malty, yet the hoppiness maintains a delicate balance.
With Death by Barleywine, you will find that there is so much malt extract in the kit that it is just not practical to boil less than 5 gallons.
www.homebrewheaven.com /death-by-barleywine.htm   (2401 words)

  
 BrewDay: Am. Barleywine
I call this a no-sparge barleywine but I actually run about 3 gallons of sparge water through the grains.
This shot was just to show the majority of my brewing setup and to see the nice rainy day I was brewing on.
Barleywine in the fermentor ontop of a yeastcake of Wyeast 1272 from an IPA.
www.ingermann.com /brew-125-1.html   (1186 words)

  
 Napa Valley Bourbon-aged Barleywine
The beer itself is based on their normal (and excellent) barleywine recipe, with a couple of twists.
He cut some of the bourbon staves into smaller pieces, shaved off the exterior portion of the stave (the part which constituted the outside of the cask), and dropped a bunch of these stave "chips" into a five gallon corny keg.
The first was their standard barleywine which is actually on tap (but not advertised -- you have to ask for it) and an excellent (****) representation of the style.
hbd.org /brewery/taproom/napavalleybw111095.html   (886 words)

  
 The Net Net: Old Foghorn Barleywine Style Ale
A barleywine is a very strong ale, often as strong as a wine, hopped very heavily to cut the malty sweetness, and (preferably) aged for a year or more.
Old Foghorn is not a bad barleywine, and although I've had homebrewed ones (including two of my own) that are far better, I prefer it to some of the commercial ones.
Samichlaus, the Swiss variety that is supposedly the strongest beer in the world, and Thomas Hardy's Ale, often kept and aged for decades like a fine port, both strike me as unpleasantly sweet and cloying, although better hopped than Old Foghorn.
www.thenetnet.com /reviews/foghorn.html   (525 words)

  
 The Winter's Tale: Barleywine in Alaska
There's no better time and place to enjoy barleywine, the complex, extra-strength ale made for sipping on winter nights.
The best showcase for the style, and one of the world's biggest, is The Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival in downtown Anchorage.
Although some 175 beers were on hand, the real stars of this show were the barleywines.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/beer_traveller/58685   (458 words)

  
 Bring out the barleywine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Even if you're not familiar with barleywine, you have to love the name of the Hell With the Lid Off Barleywine Tasting.
Barleywine is actually beer, but brewed to wine-high levels of alcohol -- up to 12 percent and even higher.
And speaking of barleywine, East End Brewing's Gratitude, a barleywine bottled as a thank-you to the little Homewood brewery's supporters, is now available there for $15 a bottle on Thursdays (5-7 p.m.) and Saturday (2-4 p.m.).
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06026/644061-34.stm   (263 words)

  
 Slothbrew: Barleywine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While the barleywine wort is coming to a boil, add the 7 gallons of water to the mash tun and let it sit for 20 minutes.
Cool the barleywine wort to 70-75F, rack into the fermenter, and pitch the yeast.
While the barleywine wort is boiling, drain the mash tun into your other brewpot.
home.twcny.rr.com /jtonole/slothbrew/threetoe.htm   (278 words)

  
 The Anchorage Press - brewreviewvol12ed50.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Glacier Brewhouse produces barleywine with consistency, aging it in stages so it can be released to customers throughout the year, as well as at the pub's annual festival.
Many of the barleywines share many of the same base beer, but as fermentation is completed, the beer is divided and aged in a variety of stainless steel and oak casks, each which provides a completely different end product, depending upon what was in the cask before.
The latter is a barleywine aged in Jim Beam and Napa Valley wine barrels consecutively each for a year.
www.anchoragepress.com /archives-2004/brewreviewvol12ed50.html   (767 words)

  
 Anchor Steam - Old Foghorn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barleywine Style Ale is brewed strictly according to traditional brewing methods, using only natural ingredients — water, malted barley, fresh whole hops, and yeast.
Our "barleywine ale" is dry-hopped with additional Cascade hops while it ages in our cellars.
Therefore, three mashes are required to produce one barley wine brew, making it very costly to produce.
www.anchorbrewing.com /beers/oldfoghorn.htm   (246 words)

  
 Brewtopia Events Blind Tasting / Evaluation - Barleywines 2003
This beer sampling was done as a blind tasting where no one was aware of the brands that were being served.
This is a Barleywine that leans heavily toward the bitter end of the style.
There is a good medium/full mouthfeel for a Barleywine, but this beer is dryer than most.
www.classiccitybrew.com /blind_barleywines.html   (861 words)

  
 BeerFestivals.org - Great Alaska Beer & Barleywine Festival in Anchorage, AK
It's the perfect atmosphere for enjoying extra-strong barleywines, doppelbocks, and winter warmers at the Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival in Anchorage.
It was brewed for special occasions such as coronations and royal births, or brought out as a seasonal beer around Christmas.
Quite a few make the trip to Alaska to take part in the barleywine competition that is part of the festival.
www.beerfestivals.org /archive/dest/01_2003_ak_barleywine.htm   (427 words)

  
 Barleywine fermentation - BrewBoard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barleywine fermentation, need to drop the FG Options
I actually made a normal sized pale ale with the same mash and a portion of the same yeast as the barleywine.
It is still fermenting nicely, when its done I'll probably rack the barleywine onto the cake of the pale ale (if it comes to that).
www.brewboard.com /index.php?showtopic=62988   (1393 words)

  
 New York City Beer Guide: Barleywine Tasting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We sampled four barleywines and a couple other beers, accompanied by a selection of munchies provided by Sam Barberi, the proprietor and our noble host, and Ralph Yedinak, the Waterfront's invaluable chef.
Kirby Shyer brought three cases of his first bottled beer, a double bock, to be tasted and distributed to the crowd.
Clay says: This isn't the same Full Moon Barleywine I tasted as recently as the week before last with Ziggy at Heartland -- That barleywine was very fruity (many confused it for an abbey tripel) with a hoppy bitterness lingering in the aftertaste.
www.nycbeer.org /special/barleywine951218.html   (508 words)

  
 Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival
As the beer flowed, this year's guest of honor, homebrewing legend Charlie Papazian, and his fellow judges were hard at work downstairs.
They spent more than three and a half hours evaluating the barleywines before finally emerging to announce the winners--Anchorage's own Midnight Sun Brewing Company and Glacier BrewHouse.
Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival takes place in January in the Egan Convention Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
www.2camels.com /great-alaska-beer-and-barleywine-festival.php   (811 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Talon Barleywine at Epinions.com
Mendocino also calls this a True Style barleywine, though I am not sure what they mean by that.
Mendocino Brewing Talon True Style Barleywine Ale pours to a deep mahogany color with a medium sized creamy head formation and just a bit more carbonation than many examples of the style.
A bottle of aged Talon Barleywine makes for a fine nightcap indeed, just the thing for a cool November evening.
www.epinions.com /content_162854506116   (630 words)

  
 Barleywine
Use of the modern name - Barleywine, can be attributed to the high alcohol, which rivals that of wine, along with the practice of maturing in wood.
Served in a tulip shaped glass or snifter, barleywines are unchallenged by any other beer in the role of relaxing nightcap.
Consume them like a fine scotch, cognac or sherry and slowly savor the strong malt and alcohol with underpinnings of subtle complexity.
www.northamericanbrewers.org /BarleyWine.htm   (703 words)

  
 Leviathan Barleywine: Fish Brewing Co., Olympia, WA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With its assertive hop bitterness, delicious malt flavor and long, dry, hoppy finish, Leviathan Barleywine is a brew of mythic proportions.
Dark amber, rich, and malty with a most very hearty alcohol strength, it is capable of soothing the savage beast in us all.
Imbibe Leviathan Barleywine at your ease and enjoy the full, complex flavor as the glass slowly warms in your hand.
www.fishbrewing.com /leviathan.html   (171 words)

  
 Seasonal stout and barleywine from Fish - Weekly Specialty Beer Report Modern Brewery Age - Find Articles
Fish Tale Ales brewed the first batches of Leviathan Barleywine and Poseidon's Imperial Stout in 1999 for its new oak aging program.
Now, these vintage beers are made every year--brewed to 10% alcohol by volume, and then racked to wine barrels in April for more than six months aging in the Brewery's barrel cellar.
Horton reports that this year's Fish Tale Leviathan Barleywine is brewed with Northwest ESB malt and Crystal malt, with Chinook hops to bitter and Cascade hops for flavor.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3469/is_48_53/ai_95501884   (448 words)

  
 Old Nick Barleywine: A Fine Brew With Cigars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While some of the past batches I've tasted over the years (some aged, some fresh) have been excellent, the most recent bottling is amazingly tasty.
Another decent pairing was a vintage Fonseca cabinet selection from 1958, which showed a few uncharacteristically sour notes along with the more typical complex woodsiness that you can usually find in one of these rare cigars.
All in all, I give an unqualified thumbs up to Old Nick barleywine, either for sipping alone after a meal or as a cigar companion.
members.tripod.com /baygourmet/oldnick.html   (291 words)

  
 Monster Barleywine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
According to their website: "Brooklyn Monster Ale, our dead-of-winter seasonal, is an English style barleywine.
Barleywines are beers fermented to the strength of wines, usually around 10% alcohol by volume.
The high alcohol produces intensely estery flavors, giving the beers a vinous, or sherry-like character.
www.sendafriendabeer.com /beer/383.asp   (145 words)

  
 19. Strong Ale - BJCP Style Guidelines
Fits in the style space between normal gravity beers (strong bitters, brown porters) and barleywines.
Comments: The American version of the Barleywine tends to have a greater emphasis on hop bitterness, flavor and aroma than the English Barleywine, and often features American hop varieties.
Differs from an Imperial IPA in that the hops are not extreme, the malt is more forward, and the body is richer and more characterful.
www.bjcp.org /styles04/Category19.html   (1584 words)

  
 Batch #20: Barleywine
two batches, I thought it was time for a nice big barleywine.
It was also my 20th batch since going all grain, a perfect excuse for brewing something special.
It takes away from the mouthfeel a bit, but since it's almost syrupy when flat, that is OK. Very smooth, balanced, straightforward flavor completely unlike barleywines made with caramel malt.
mikk.net /~chris/brewnotes/batch20.html   (700 words)

  
 Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine from Dogfish Head Brewery | BeerPal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine from Dogfish Head Brewery
A little lighter than what I normally see from Barleywines, with a even-handed layer of foam, and steady stream of bubbles cruising to the surface.
A bit winey in the nose -- seemed perhaps a little strong and overally sharp in the aroma.
www.beerpal.com /beerinfo.asp?ID=8933   (670 words)

  
 THOMAS HOOKER ALES AND LAGERS - HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
We age our Barleywine in oak bourbon- casks to add vanilla and smoky notes, then blend these flavors into a full-blown sensory experience to enjoy on a cold winter's eve.
Old Marley Barleywine is extremely complex and full-bodied in flavor.
The drinker will be rewarded by first letting a small amount warm in a brandy snifter, then sipping it, similar to a fine sherry.
www.troutbrookbeer.com /AL_oldmarley.html   (123 words)

  
 My Life is Beer!: Avery Hog Heaven Barleywine-Style Ale - Avery Brewing Co.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Most barleywines are cloying - the hops in Hog Heaven stand up to that.
I really enjoyed being in hog heaven and would like to be there again.
Truly excellent version of barleywine, though perhaps not quite as complex a taste as the very, very best.
www.mylifeisbeer.com /beer/bottles/bottledetail/530   (251 words)

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