Talk:Barley wine

message: Fixed redirect of "Barley Wine Ale" (was to Sprecher Brewery) to "Barley Wine".  Not clear why Barley Wine Ale went to an article on a particular commercial producer.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.76.245.157 (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: redirects

message: In light of beer historian Martyn Cornell's assertion that there is no such style as Barley Wine, I suggest the material here be made a subsection of the Old Ale article. Farrtj (talk) 01:20, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Michael Jackson wrote quite extensively on the barley wine style, so who to trust?--Chimino (talk) 04:10, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Ale

message: I can't say I've ever heard of alcohol being described as 'bitter' before; ethanol certainly doesn't sasy such. --moof 08:08, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Enough hops can make a beer bitter, most particularly with India pale ale.  As for barley malt, it tends to taste like alcoholic soy sauce.  Yum yum... Afalbrig 06:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

text: You are correct. Alcohol adds no bitterness to the beer. It can change the mouthfeel of the beer by giving it a "slickness". It can also add a solvent-like character if the alcohol in question tends toward Fusel_alcohol. Bitterness comes from hops added early in the boil (hops added later in the boil provide flavor and aroma more than any significant bitterness) as well as certain dark roasted malts (such as found in stouts). Mumbly 22:09, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  alcohol, bitter? 

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message: Why is Dark Horizon listed as a barley wine? It really is an imperial stout. Even the brewery says so. The closest Norwegian beer has to be Nøgne Ø #100, although I would argue that that's really a double IPA. Strictly speaking there are no Norwegian barley wines. --LarsMarius (talk) 17:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dark Horizon? 

message: This article had very little prose and a huge list of brands. Remove the brands and we get a stub. It looked like a promotional section in that form. I would have no objection to a separate list article hat-noted from this article (List of commercial barley wines) but the list was outweighing article material. This article needs improvement in prose form.⋙–Berean–Hunter—► ((⊕)) 13:54, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call; the last thing we need are more in-article lists on Wikipedia. They can go to BeerAdvocate or other websites for beer style examples/lists.--Chimino (talk) 15:02, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List removed 

message: First, I would venture that the ancient Greek word for a malt beverage that translates as "barley wine" is not a direct etymology for the English style of barley wine, and the latter term likely arose completely independently, and is only coincidentally similar. Second, there is quite a lot of evidence that heavy fermented barley malt beverages originated in Egypt and/or the Fertile Crescent and predate Greek brewing, so to say this so-called "style" originated in Greece is historically incorrect. Third, I have spent quite a lot of time in Greece and can tell you heavy top-fermented beers are nowhere to be found in modern Greece, any beer you get there is going to be a light pale yellow effervescent beer, like a Pils, like Fix or Mythos. Finally, even the article itself says that common barley wines found now are nothing like the ancient Greek style, so to claim that the Greek barley wine and English style barley wines are one "style" is preposterous. Mmyers1976 (talk) 20:37, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supposed Greek "origin" overemphasized