RIGHT BEER GEEKS, what is barleywine? And more importantly, what is life. Especially when you film this at 11.30am.

Brooklyn has done an English-Style Barleywine called Brooklyn Monster Ale, I dont think it's been produced for a number of years but was very tasty when it was floating about!

Thank you for this review of barleywine. Hopefully it will help spread the word about this style that doesn’t get the attention that I feel it deserves. I’m fortunate to live near Side Project, which brews a great seasonal barleywine, Anabasis, but AleSmith Numbskull is no longer distributed in my market. Barleywine has a real hit or miss availability, so I always grab old ale, like Founders Curmudgeon or Ola Dubh, as a substitute when it’s available. One of the joys of travel is when you find yourself in markets that have barleywine on a regular basis (Baladin in Italy or Hair of the Dog in Oregon).

Love these "What is...?" beer style videos. Keep it up!

Thanks guys! Exactly the kind of content I love to see on the channel.

Trying barleywine for the first time rn, was bewildered as to whether it was still a beer or not haha. It's called Bluthering Idiot and it's made by a semi local brewer called Weyerbacher and it's amazing. Bold, caramel-esque, a bit fruity. They also make a wonderful pumpkin ale for those interested

Great video, guys - informative, and I don't really know much about where to start with them, so this has some useful pointers.

Xyauyu barleywines by Italian Balaadin brewery are incredibly good, especially Fume , they are aged for several years in barrels, I've had degustation in Roma, I'd recommend it!

When I first started drinking, 1980, every pub sold barley wine, it was sold in a small bottle with a blue and yellow label

I loved hearing your praise for Marble Arch. Their beer is great and their original Manchester pub is outstanding!

Having two British guys discuss and compare Beer on their couch in my background as I do my work is better than any ASMR I have ever experienced.

Toffee and rasin are the two big ones I get on most barley wines. Great brews on a snowy day.

Tried my first barleywine yesterday, which was a smoked barleywine. I think, on paper, it's technically an English barleywine, but the smoke was so forward in both taste and smell I honestly feel like it's its own sub-style; "Smoked Barleywine". It even affected the color of it, but it wasn't a Rauchbier. Very interesting and good experience. (It's called 'Herja' and is by Hoppe Beer)

My fave barleywine is an English style from Boatrocker (a great Aussie brewery) called Banshee, with an honourable mention to a American style collab from Black Dog (Aussie) and Eel River (Yank) called EelDog Muscat Mongrel.

When I was 17,I went to the works Xmas party and one of the old timers told me if I wanted to get pissed on the cheap,get on the Barley wine. After that night,I could not eat or drink anything for nearly 8 days.. Nightmare..That stuff is poison.. Never again. Someone said it was the bottle of Cointreau I had but all I can remember was the horrific exit of the Barley wine.

Great vid guys. Love a good barley wine.

I have a fair few in my cellar. Baladin Fumé whisky BA 2014 vintage, De Molen Pirate & Pixie rum BA, Mountain Goat 2016 (Lark Tasmania BA), 2018 (Tennessee whiskey BA), Hawkers cognac BA and Bourbon County barleywine 2016.

Great to meet you both yesterday! Legends!

I never thought I would have the desire to buy barley wine but my horizons have just been expanded !

Love me a nice barely wine and this only increased that love! Cheers from Toronto, Canada

Great job guys Kevin here from lewiston, ny, USA. great craft beer scene here in western New York and New York as a whole is fantastic. You should do a discovery trip here. Should be worth at least a million likes for your channel.

Harmonic Convergence by Galway Bay was a barleywine which came out around Christmas each year for a few years. Could be best described as Christmas pudding in a bottle

Good episode, guys! Though I'm a huge beer fan, I know (or knew) next to nothing about barleywines. Especially if they're... life ("aaah!"). The one I drank that made an impression, however, was Helldorado from Firestone Walker. Delicious.

I've loved Siren Maiden, I've tasted one from 2013 aged for 3 years

I have a couple barley wines aging a bit more in the bottle And I totally agree with the BJCP guide, I particularly love the Saison/Farmhouse Ale (perhaps they don't actually call it Farmhouse Ale) definition, they should have written "do whatever you want and you will still be OK with the style", it's probably the most open definition I have ever seen

I remember overhearing some tourists in a foreign craft beer place once, and one of the guys offering to buy his lady "a barleywine, cos that's just like wine innit?".

I was lucky enough to randomly go into a london bar last year where a Sirene Maiden event took place. I got to taste 4 different barrels versions, and blend. Surely one of the most interesting beer evening I got to enjoy ! Barley wine is one of the most underappreciated style I think (compared to RIS for example).

In case it hasn't been mentioned, Oli and Milky at Crossed Anchors Brewing in Exmouth, Devon have a lovely barley wine, they may even have some of the original 2018 batch left. It's my Xmas day drink when I close the pub.

The BJCP isn't perfect, but I'd argue it's one of the best sources to learn about beer styles. I'd rather have more people familiar with it compared to the few in the industry that have actually read it.

Stone's Old Guardian is my favorite U.S. Barley wine! Cheers, Guys.

To celebrate starting my new job a couple of weeks ago I cracked open a 2012 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot and had it alongside a 2020. It was a fascinating comparison. The 2012 had those musty notes, chocolate, darker fruits, it was much cloudier than the 2020. Naturally due to the hops the 2020 was brighter, fruitier. It's malts were also more caramel-y than the 2012.

When you guys came to VT did you have a chance to try the Vermonster from Rock Art Brewery? Big flavor and a bit of a kick.

I have a recommendation! Hertog Jan Grand Prestige, a lovely Barley Wine. Easy to get in the Netherlands and Belgium, don't know if you could get it in England

Well worth going to the Black Bull in Coniston, for a weekend and a trip around the picturesque brewery if you have never be.

My favorite style of beer.

Dogfish Head Midas Touch is sort of a barleywine/braggot hybrid. And then, there's Mason Aleworks B.A. Baracus (drink in an '83 GMC Vandura, presumably while the vehicle is stationary), which tends to make one text one's spouse awkward compliments if consumed after a rough day at work (not that I speak from experience, or anything).

Bligh's Barleywine by Dry Dock Brewing is one of my absolute favorites! If you haven't tried it, you must!

Just facts. Thank you! Blithering Idiot is a popular Barleywine I’m drinking one now in fact. Hello from PA.

remember sitting in the pub with the old guys, drinking half a mild with a gold label barley wine

I made a chocolate candy bar barley wine. It really tastes like a candy bar but it will blow you away, a super big beer!

If you can get your hands on a Thomas Hardy barley wine ale I guarantee you'll love it!

I love quads and this is the next step after that imo.

De Molen also makes a quite tasty one

I also need a barley wine!!

Lovey video, I'm now inspired to make one of these. Hope no beer was fed to the drain in the making of this video! 😂

I had a bottle of the LEP "its life, Jim" at the weekend. Was bloody great. Not what you'd think of when you think barley wine in terms of flavour, LEP have done their usual weird, awesome wizardry and made it a sour, oaky, balsamic beer. Get stuck in!

As a malt-addict (or "petrol drinker" as we call ourselves in my group of beer fans), barleywines are both a favourite of mine... And one of the most frustrating to find. I get that it's not an easy beer to make, nor a very "drinkable" one. I do have to say that the two most surprising ones I've had would be the Vinum Secale from Sori Brewing (which was aged in Gin barrels) and the B4rl3yw1n3 from Iron, brewed with honey and red kuri squash. Meanwhile, two of my all-time favourites are the "Moody MILF" from Amager Bryghus and the "18/08" from Kees, aged in Glenrothes barrels. That's not a type of beer you come across very often... It is however always a pleasure. Cheers!

Middle Ages Brewery in Syracuse, NY makes an excellent barley-wine called "Druid Fluid."

I've found it easiest to use a corkscrew to open the wax caps

I'd really like to know where you get that Maiden... Seems amazing!

Brooklyn Brewery has done a Barleywine. It is called Monster, (After the Brewery cat). It was brewed until 2009? It is available in 4 packs for take-out. and it has been available at the brewery on tap. They also have had a limited edition by the name of Hand and Seal which is no longer available. It appeared after Monster and was sold in wine bottles. I do not work for them but I am one of their most consistent customers since the brewery opened. I probably have had a 6-pack or a wine bottle of everything they have made, except Brooklyn Sour, because I do not like unflavored sour beers. Mike

My personal favourite barleywine is A Deal With The Devil by Anchorage Brewing. Expensive and hard to get hold of, but I'd highly recommend it if you can find it.

What about doing the less common wheat wine or rye wine? Love me a good barley wine whether English or American.

Filming a Barley Wine review early morning is about the traditional time we, as 15 year olds would have been drinking it (many years ago, before Special Brew). Just in time for the fight... (these days between Cicerone and BJCP?) Like the historical perspective as I hadn't considered the class divide between Mild (cheaper) ales and their more exclusive older relatives.

No mention of Thomas Hardy Ale? Much lamented. Had my first in the 70's and kept the empty for years. I could still smell the beer years later. Someone (new) should acquire the brewing licence (and the Eldridge Pope roster while they are at it). With the ever growing success of craft ales as well as the premium pricing being charged, it would be a commercial certainty.

I ❤️ Barleywine

love a good Thomas hardy barley wine

Firestone Walker Sucaba is life.

That was a nice Dress Google was advertising to you on Zythophile, I think you should get it and wear it during your next video :D

"Serious research, serious tastings..." I believe you meant serious thinking, and serious drinking.

Hey guys. So what is the difference between a barleywine and a wee heavy? From what I can find they are both just strong, malt forward ales?

Bigfoot Barleywine by Sierra Nevada is outstanding

Every time I see these tasting videos I’m asking myself what you do with the rest of the bottles. Put them away and drink later? Drink them afterwards or even pour them away? No idea what I would do tho

Nothing pisses me off more than a barley wine that tastes like an IPA. Thanks America.

Reservoir Dogs has a barley wine that goes up yo 17% abv .... Good luck tasting that one 😁

To me barley wines are always a russian roulette. You can have one really good (Sibeeria Zima from 2018 was the laste really good one that i had; or they can go terribly bad and be just a chunk of sweet ethanol. I'm always very reluctant to buy one, always. My little page has only a handful of them.

Big Foot 2008….. Best beer in the world

LIFE

come to Brazil to know our beers. We have great options.

Talk Talk Johnny..

Lervig used to brew a good Barleywine in the past. I don't know if they still do?

Drinking a Tiny Rebel 'Turn It Up To 11' and trying to work out wtf it is so decided to watch this to see if it fits, as it's definitely not an 'imperial pale'. Whatever it is, it's pretty rank, and smells like manure. This was interesting though, thanks!

Better crack out to cask strength whisky for the 60% abv

I LOVE Barleywine BUT I prefer English Barleywines. As a baby craft drinker, I was given an English style and was hooked. I went to a brewery and in my innocence I saw a Barleywine on tap and quickly ordered one. Nothing like starting the evening with a 12% Barleywine. Anyway, it was an American Barleywine and I thought it was a horrible joke. I can appreciate an American style now, but then I was not exactly enthused.

Funny how Barley Wine has remained popular in the US, whereas UK breweries don't seem to make it nearly as much as a couple of years ago. I guess the big adjunct stouts took over on the big mash beers here

The Wax cap needs the old Sponge Bob - 1 hour later....

Its manna from heaven

I read that the English Barleywine was originally invented due to the war with France, and wine was very limited and the English wanted something stronger than the traditional ale, and so, developed Barleywine, the best wine!

Barley wine makes me think Gold Label.

Brooklyn did Special Ops which I think was a barley wine.

Bob struges

STINGO: known colloquially as 'leg opener' in the 70's.

The fact that the style has wine in its name puts me off a hell of a lot! A bit prejudice i know

Bigfoot is life

According to the Homebrewer Bureau of Statistics, less than 0.1% of homebrew is aged five years or greater. My Masters degree professor in rocket science got me into homebrew int. Five years after I got my Masters from him, I invited him over to my castle for a drink. I had a bottled six pack of my 10% ABV as tested before bottling. I also invited my best friend, also a rocket scientist, over to consume the six pack. Most beers or ales will spoil in five years. Properly stored, barley wine can last for decades. Upon tasting my five year old brew, it was more like champagne, France pls excuse the reference. It was not hoppy, and had only a miniscule carbonation. It was just like smooth yellow cream soda I had as a kid. Any hops effect was totally gone. Instead, the wonderful glowing feeling comes from natural vitamin B from the yeast poo which had been filtered five years ago. It can't be commercially produced, because it's too expensive to make and blah dee blah on and on. Small batch. But nothing is sold out there that makes you turn 18 listening to music like it did. Remember: 10% ABV clean ale aged FIVE years. This is a challenge to Homebrewers: make your usual brew, but make a special five year aged batch of barley wine. It will humble you.

who is barley wine?

too many carbs for me man sharper and lighter please

Barleywine - is silent killer: very sweet with much booze ))

Its an.... umcarbonated... wine... made from barley? No way...

Andnams both barrels is not a Barley wine

Get to the point next time holy

I would suggest 3 Floyd’s pillar of beasts it’s a barrel aged barley wine with Carmel