{"id":95696,"date":"2017-11-20T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:43:22","slug":"barley-wine-beer-you-can-drink-when-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/20\/barley-wine-beer-you-can-drink-when-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Barley wine: the beer you can drink when it's 10 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Having a bit of post New Year clearout I came across a bottle of J W Lees Harvest Ale 2000 that I must have been given to celebrate the millennium. It’s what’s known as a ‘barley wine’ – a strong sweet beer, in this instance made by the J W Lees brewery<\/a> in Manchester.<\/p>\n

Most beers would have been as dead as a dodo 10 years on but at 11.5% ABV, Harvest Ale is clearly built to last. Still, it was a big ask to expect it to be drinkable after all this time and I was amazed how good it was.<\/p>\n

It was so rich, sweet and dark (see below) it was more like a sherry or madeira, mind you. Only a background note of maltiness reminds you that this is beer but I suggest you drink it like a fortified wine with blue cheese, dark chocolate or a slice of dark sticky fruitcake. (In my view cheese is the best of all three, but then I’m one of the rare mortals who likes cheese more than chocolate.)<\/p>\n

It’s a shame in a way the weather has warmed up. It’s the perfect beer to sip on a cold winter’s night. Not that I’m tempting fate . . .<\/p>\n

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Having a bit of post New Year clearout I came across a bottle of J W Lees Harvest Ale 2000 that I must have been given to celebrate the millennium. It’s what’s known as a ‘barley wine’ – a strong sweet beer, in this instance made by the J W Lees brewery in Manchester. Most beers would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}