Daily Archives: February 29, 2016
This is a lady at the Spruce Forest Artisan Village in Grantsville, Maryland. She spends her time here making mermaids. She has a tattoo of a mermaid on her foot.
This is her mermaid tattoo. She displays it proudly.
Know Your Craft: Barleywine, another cold weather companion
My last column highlighted the “chicken-soup effect” a Russian Imperial Stout can have on a bleak winter day.
Another favorite — and potentially mood enhancing — cold weather go-to is the barleywine. Not actually a wine, it takes its name from being a strong beer with wine-like gravity (i.e. alcohol content).
This beer is another great sipper, and its big hop character combined with a deep, amber-red-brown maltiness can brighten up almost any dark day.
Generally between 8 to 12 percent ABV for a nice impression of warmth, it also has big malt sweetness balanced by moderate to heavy hoppiness.
Similar to, yet stronger than, an Old Ale, the barleywine is another English style represented by many great versions on each side of the Atlantic.
According to Dave Carpenter of Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine, an English barleywine “exhibits a chewy, complex malt body that evokes plums and toffee and…
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