flyinglentris
Disabled and Retired Veteran
Barley Water? What is it? Do I want to drink it? Do I want to gift it to somebody I don't like? What's it taste like? Can it be used as a cleaning solvent?
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You mean beer?
I googled and found a Barley Water Wiki.
It seems this stuff has been around for a long time in various names and deserves a mention in Nostalgia Foods. I suppose I would have, if I had known what the blue blazes it was.
I had also read that it can have some wanted and unwanted side effects.
I just got a memory jolt. When my parents lived in Puerto Rico, there was a beverage there called Malta. Basically the same as barley water??? It tasted nasty, IMO, but people there liked it. It has been a long time since I tasted it, but I remember it being somewhat sweet, and very heavy.
CD
Malta is not Barley Water, but more like a non-alcoholic Beer, brewed from Barley, Hops and Water, but without fermentation. Barley Water on the other hand, is the strained fluids left after boiling Barley, with Sugars and Fruit Juices added to it.
I don't imagine that a non-alcoholic Beer would taste very good to a kid.
The famous one in the UK is Robinson's Barley Water, which has been around since the 1930s and has been associated with tennis for a very long time (especially Wimbledon). It's now owned by the giant Britvic, but was independent before that.
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