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alt. A kind of strong ale originating in England. n. A kind of strong ale originating in England.
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Barley wine is a style of strong ale, implied to be as potent as wine, usually containing more than 6% alcohol by volume and traditionally as much as 11%.
Usage examples of "barley wine".
This whole wretched mess must be nothing more than a hangover from the barley wine.
For that, the priest had to be well filled with rathel and barley wine, to keep out the cold on his trip home.
The offering of the body of the Corn God is made in the honey cakes on the pentacle, or sacred dish, and the beer or wine in the chalice is fermented from the sacrificed barley wine.
Mephistopheles had given Mack a glass of barley wine to buck him up after his close call.
And I laughed and poured more barley wine and played with her bubbies some more, and I kissed her full on her pretty lips.
Brewed in the kitchen of the Liberty Bell restaurant to Willie Elijah's own specifications, the harsh, powerfully alcoholic barley wine was part of every sec man's daily wage.
The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core.
Who wanted to drink fizzy water with a little alcohol in it when porter and steam beer and barley wine were out there, too?