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- From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
- Newsgroups: alt.beer
- Subject: Re: Cask Ale; Thomas Hardy
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:40:16 GMT
- Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
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- References: <1e9t5sINNgmt@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1eatn9INN22o@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <1992Nov17.155315.14267@news.nd.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.155315.14267@news.nd.edu> ulick@bernini.helios.nd.edu (Ulick Stafford) writes:
- >Thomas Hardy is considered an Old Ale, but is stronger than barley wines.
-
- Always one to quibble, I'd have to object to your objection.
- Jackson says the term "Old Ale" (in Britain) refers chiefly to a
- medium-strong dark ale like Old Peculiar, which has just under
- 6% alcohol (by volume). He also alludes to the looseness of the
- term "Old Ale." He defines a barley wine as an extra-strong ale
- with more than 6% alcohol, classically closer to 11%, and being
- either light or dark. In his description of Thomas Hardy's Ale,
- he just calls it a dark ale, and pegs the alcohol content at
- 12.48 % by volume. Calling it a barley wine, therefore, is hardly
- innaccurate. (On the other hand, calling Sam Adams Lager a Pilsner
- would be).
- To paraphrase Shakespeare, though, whatever you call it, it's
- still a fine brew.
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- Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
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