barley-wine

First, the label just says "ale", it does not say "barley wine ale", or "wine-style ale" that would indicate a barley-wine, one of the few high-alcohol styles that does not typically carry the prefix "imperial."

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

First, the label just says "ale", it does not say "barley wine ale", or "wine-style ale" that would indicate a barley-wine, one of the few high-alcohol styles that does not typically carry the prefix "imperial."

Since It's So Cold Out, Let's Talk About Snowshoes 2008

All of them were found amply stocked with live cattle of every kind, wintered upon hay; as well as with wheat, barley, vegetables, and a sort of barley-wine or beer in tubs, with the grains of barley on the surface.

The Two Great Retreats of History George Grote 1832

Come, hostess, dress it presently; and get us what other meat the house will afford; and give us some of your best barley-wine, the good liquor that our honest forefathers did use to think of; the drink which preserved their health, and made them live so long, and to do so many good deeds.

The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653

Afterwords, we went to the Cambridge Beer Company, for some very good barley-wine.

Fedora People 2009

He rebuked the Protospathaire for fishing up this accusation, and said, when he had recalled the bustle and confusion of that toilsome day, ‘I thought myself well off amid that seven times heated furnace, when we obtained a draught of the barley-wine drank by my poor Varangians; and I drank their health, as well

Count Robert of Paris 2008

He rebuked the Protospathaire for fishing up this accusation, and said, when he had recalled the bustle and confusion of that toilsome day, 'I thought myself well off amid that seven times heated furnace, when we obtained a draught of the barley-wine drank by my poor Varangians; and I drank their health, as well I might, since, had it not been for their services, I had drunk my last; and well fare their hearts, though they quaffed my wine in return!'

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

_Ainsw. _ p. 178.] [Footnote 220: The reeds were used, says Krüger, that none of the grains of barley might be taken into the mouth.] [Footnote 221: Xenophon seems to mean _grape-wine_, rather than to refer to the barley-wine just before mentioned, of which the taste does not appear to have been much liked by the Greeks.

The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1844