Ploughshare Rye Barrel-Aged Plague Of Locusts

This is an English style barleywine which we've aged in rye whiskey barrels. As for its' namesake: In the summer of 1874, a plague of locusts descended upon southern Nebraska and northern Kansas. Within a single day, the locusts scoured the fields of crops, the trees of leaves, every blade of grass, the wool off sheep, the harnesses off horses, the paint off wagons and the handles off pitchforks. Some farmers could only save the water in their wells, and nothing else. Lore has it that these insects ate "everything but the mortgage".