The tale of John Barleycorn, or, From barley to beer

By Mary Azarian

Subjects: Beer, Ballads, Grain, Agriculture, Ballads, english, Music, Barley, Fiction, Brewing, Allegory, Alcoholism, fiction, English Ballads, Milling, Juvenile fiction, Violence, Harvest

Description: The medieval English ballad of John Barleycorn, who after being ploughed under the ground grows up again in the spring to be harvested and ultimately turned into homebrewed ale.