Barley wine There are two primary styles of barley wine: the American which tends to be more hoppy and bitter with colours ranging from amber to light brown and the English style which tends to be less bitter and may have little hop flavour, with more variety in colour ranging from red-gold to opaque black. Until the introduction of an amber-coloured barley wine under the name Gold Label by the Sheffield brewery Tennant's in 1951 (later brewed by Whitbread), British barley wines were always dark in colour. The beer writer Michael Jackson referred to a barley wine by Smithwick's thus: "This is
Oz and James Drink to Britain Oz and James Drink to Britain Oz and James Drink to Britain was a BBC television series in which wine writer Oz Clarke and motor journalist James May travelled through Britain and Ireland to discover the array of available alcoholic drinks. The series is a sequel to "Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure", and followed the same format, with the established dynamic between Clarke and May of bickering and bantering while drinking alcohol. The chosen vehicle of this series is a 1982 Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible. Upon broadcast the first episode had a viewership of approximately 3.4 million with an average