The beer description presents the recipe as an American interpretation of English barleywine, using American hops to balance the English malt character. It gives no yeast strain.
As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines put British-Style Barley Wine Ale at 8.5 to 12.2 percent ABV and 40 to 65 IBU with high residual malt sweetness, American-Style Barley Wine Ale at the same strength with 60 to 100 IBU, and American-Style Wheat Wine Ale at the same strength with 45 to 85 IBU and at least 50 percent wheat malt. The published strength fits the barleywine ranges; bitterness exceeds the British range but fits the American range.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Barley Wine or Wheat Wine
Bronze
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Brewery Context
Morgan Territory Brewing is in Tracy, CA. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.
Field pass 2026-10-13: The brewery drinks catalog names Old Diablo Barley Wine and qualifies as beer url because no dedicated page was found. It lists 11.0% ABV, versus the retained Untappd 11.3% already cited; the difference remains unresolved.
The on tap page loads its menu from BeerMenus, which returned an empty page, and the beer finder shows no results.
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No 2026 medal announcement was found.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: The exact Untappd entry supplied strength, bitterness, named hops and malts. Search results for Slow Burn barrel aged releases were excluded as variants. No dedicated brewery beer page was found.
Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Old Diablo lists 10.5% ABV, 65 IBU, style "British-Style Barley Wine Ale" (entry last modified 2020-05-02). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the description on file comes from Untappd and is not extended.