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- From: gamiddle@math.uwaterloo.ca (Guy Middleton)
- Subject: Re: Cask Ale; Thomas Hardy
- Message-ID: <BxxCu8.DBx@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo Software Liberation Army
- References: <1eatn9INN22o@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> <1992Nov17.155315.14267@news.nd.edu> <1ebeagINNd2j@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:32:31 GMT
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- In article <1ebeagINNd2j@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:
- > 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).
-
- Could it be a Strong Ale? A brewery near here produces an extremely
- strong beer called "Old Jack Bitter Strong Ale", of about (I think) 12%
- alcohol.
-
- -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu
- (+1 519 885 1211 x3472) gamiddleton@math.uwaterloo.ca
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