![]() Hop character is generally absent and bitterness is often low compared to the high gravity, giving the beer a complex, sweet malt character, often with hints of treacle or toffee and a pleasant sherry-like flavor after a few years' aging.Ĭommercial examples include Whitbread’s Gold Label (10.9%), Bass’s No 1 Barley Wine (10.5%), and Fuller’s Vintage Ale (8.5%), a bottle-conditioned version of its Golden Pride brewed with different varieties of malts and hops every year. Traditional English Barley Wine is essentially a very strong bitter, brewed with very high amounts of pale malt. ![]() Prior to 1903, strong English ales were commonly called October Beer, March Beer or Harvest Beer. CAMRA claims that its origins were patriotic, since the English upper classes needed a beverage to replace French wine during England's many wars with France. The term Barley Wine was coined by Bass in 1903 to describe its Bass No.
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