Taxes and Legal Impediments
Many jurisdictions have different taxing schemes for potables based upon alcohol content. Since barley wine has a high alcohol content it gets taxed at a higher rate than other beers, making barley wines suffer a price premium compared to other beers.
Similarly, many jurisdictions have different regulations regarding where beers and wines can be sold, leading to confusion regarding which category barley wines fall in and limiting access.
A number of bars and brew pubs limit the number of glasses of barley wines they will sell to patrons to prevent them from becoming inebriated on barley wines (though not other beers or fruit wines).
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