Adventurous brewers from coast to coast are embarking on a quest to produce one of the biggest, baddest beer styles on the planet, one that evokes nervous excitement in even the most seasoned of brewers and cellarmen: barley wine.
“Our brewers are always like, ‘Oh, boy, it’s barley wine week,’” says Anello Mollica, co-owner of Central Waters Brewing in Amherst, Wis., maker of the third highest-ranked beer on BeerAdvocate’s Top 100 American Barley Wines. “It’s a lot of extra work for them, but the end result is well worth it.”
Barley wines are so revered that festivals are held in their honor from Alaska to Massachusetts, where the folks at Cambridge Brewing Co. recently hosted their eleventh annual barley wine event. It featured 14 different Cambridge barley wine vintages, including a 10-year-old version of the nationally renowned Blunderbuss.
“In New England when the weather sucks during winter, we embrace our barley wines,” says brewmaster Will Meyers… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY AT CRAFT BEER
