Barley wine BU:GU ?

It depends on if you like your barleywines hoppy or not. Looks like the English tend to be less hoppy than American http://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category19.php#style19B

 

I agree with inchrisin, here. Barelywine, to a large extent, is a catch all category, where some are light, some are dark, some are sweet, some are hoppy. It depends on what you want the experience to be. Are you looking to base this off of any particular commercially-available Barleywine?

 

for future reference: http://www.madalchemist.com/chart_bitterness_ratio.html

 

As others have said "it depends". IMHAO : ), don't use anything too delicate (low alpha).

A= American (maybe asshole)

 

You mean like all the fuggles and/or goldings that I generally load into my English barleywines?

 

E = English (see previous post)