What even is Bock beer? | The Craft Beer Channel
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- This week we're almost going seasonal with our What Even Is series as we tackle Germany's Spring beer - the Bock. Learn about the confusing history, the flavours you can expect and why drinking it is like being kicked in the face by a goat.
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The tale is that the Bavarian nobles of the house of Wittelsbach liked that beer from Einbeck so much that they hired brewmaster Elias Pichler of Einbeck to brew it in Munich. That's how Bockbier became Bavarian. In some variants of that tale Pichler was even kidnapped by the house of Wittelsbach, which is probably "Schmarrn" but a good story. Anyway, great video.
A great introduction into Bocks. In fact so interesting I watched the video while ironing and didn't realise I hadn't even plugged the iron in until the end. Love and beer.
Glad it was that and that you didn't set your house on fire
Hahaha! Sorry to make your housework last longer!
Man do I love Celebrator by the Ayinger brewery
Grew up in central Texas drinking Shiner Bock. Really great on tap from the original brewery in Shiner,Tx. Bought out by Gambrinus in San Antonio and I think slightly different, but still a great Bock beer. Many Germans immigrated to Texas in the 1840's and there is a lot of good tradition with food, music, and political freedom.
Shiner is what got me started down the path of beer. Still drink and love it.
bock is my favorite style. love it.
Great video. I spent 5 years drinking in the Netherlands where there is also a very strong bokbier presence. Almost every brewery craft or otherwise made an autumn bock, and most also a spring bock. Seasonality in brewing does make it more special … spring bock is one of my favorite styles because (a) there are so many different ways to interpret the style (b) it’s only available for a few months so it doesn’t get boring.
Over here in Texas there’s Shiner Bock. I’ve no idea how it compares to ones made in Germany and elsewhere across the pond, but they’re pretty tasty and very popular in these parts. I try to always try any Bock o come across because they’re one of my favorite.
I've had it in Texas! It doesn't really compare - much lower ABV and lighter flavour, but still tasty. Like an American lager meets a bock.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel yea I see what you’re saying. They’re pretty crushable though. There’s a small craft place about 30 minutes from me that put out an 8% one a few weeks ago. I haven’t been able to make it down there to give it a whirl.
One of my favorite beers!
As an Andechs fan, I have to say the Doppelbock Dunkel from them is particularly nice.
Yet another hole in my knowledge comfortably filled. Cheers guys!
Hello, my friend. Sorry for my english. Year! I am from einbeck,lower saxony. In 1378 we breew beer in 700 homes. Martin Luther loves ouer beer and we are a "hanse town" . I am very proud of my little town.
Just had a Shiner Bock, one of my favorites. Made in Texas and delicious.
Einbecker brewery, still ( for me) brew the best bock, maibock, Doppelbock beers. Back then Bavarian beer wasn’t that good so the breweries pinched some of the master brewers from the einbeck region .
Nothing finer, than a shiner!
Guys British beer is alive in the colonies! This was just released from a local brewer here in western New York “King Edward Porter - a 4.8% traditional English porter with Munich, chocolate, biscuit and maris otter malts” by west shore brewing company. Cheers!
Recently had my first Bock beer in the form of a Urbock from Namibian craft brewery known as Camelthorn. Was an awesome experience.
I brewed a doppelbock last year. Incredibly moreish. Famously referred to as 'liquid bread' it had that bread crust character but also a deep satisfying maltiness that only got better with time. I would say it was reaching its peak by the time I demolished the last bottle!
Here in the Netherlands we have different bocks every season starting off with the “herfstbok” (literal autumn bock), then winter and spring. Grolsch is the only brewery here who brews a summer bock that’s widely available, but that’s actually a Kristallweizen. Quite a different situation than in Germany.
Is bock as a category even seasonal anymore? You could drink a dark original bock in autumn and winter, a Maibock in spring and a Weizenbock in summer if you're into beer that strong in summer! And top quality scenes from Starkbierfest!
I live in Munich and I didn’t know a lot of what you explained, which says a lot about the depth of research you do for these vids. You mentioned Weizenbock so I wanted to highlight Gutmann, who make an amazing pale Weizenbock. If you can get your hands on one when they’re seasonable again you won’t be sorry.
Gutmann (pale) Weizenbock rocks !
The dark weizenbock is amazing too
Is it true that Paulaner is the number one double bock of Deutschland? Says so on the bottle I'm drinking teehe
Schneider Weisse, Hopfenweisse
A hedgerow after rain. Nice!
Slightly off topic, I always tap my beer cans three times before opening it, it is nice to see someone else also tapping a can before opening it. I can't remember if anyone told me to do this or if this was just me? Also turn the ring pull to 90 degrees if having to drink from a can, I think this was because I always know what can is mine, no one else seems to do it. Love the channel and videos gents, thank you and keep it up.
My absolute favorite beer is Urbock 23 from the Austrian brewer Schloss Eggenberg. It’s a pale doppelbock 🔥
Guys, great show. Love bock beer. I’ve notice in my area (western New York) that Italian and Mexican lagers are becoming a thing. How bout a show explaining these?
I love bock and it's a underrated style, if you ask me. Can be tricky to find on tap as well.
You tend to see Bock on tap close to October, but you are right about it being tricky. Only other time I see a Bock on a tap list is if I am at a brewery that specializes in traditional old world style beers.
Arnold Schwarzenegger always stated “ I’ll be Bock””!!!
Yesterday I had a great austrian helles bock with mighty 9.6%. So dense and delicious
Love Maibocks!
Brilliant Bockumentary guys - informative and entertaining - thanks to you my list of 'must brews' keeps on growing - Westie, Pastry Stout and now Bock!!
that video was bockin amazing. Brilliant information delivered in true infotainment style gents.
I had a my first Bock, and was blown away, at Pillars Brewery in Walthemstow when I was down in London earlier this year. It was a great beer to finish off the evening as the ABV was silly, but we had just had quite a few NEIPA's next door at Wild Card brewery as well so high ABV beers was the norm.
Starkbierfest? Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!
Seriously, that sounds like the Mecca to a faith I just realized I subscribe to.
DUDES, Forgot the real GOAT! The best of all of them together: Schneider Weisse's Tap 05 - Hopfenweisse Weizendoppelbock! :D
That beer is perfection!
I’ve been living in Munich for 4 years and have never seen this. Any tips on where to find it in store? Looking forward to trying it!!
@@symphantic4552 Well, these are the spring bock beers so it currently is not really the time for them but I'm sure you should be able to find them in almost any bottleshop around. Die Bierothek has them in store for instance on their webshop.
@@jasuindiloan Awesome! I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!
My local brewery, Braybrooke Beer Co, brew both a doppelbock and a seasonal Maibock.
Both are exceptional, would highly recommend.
Was just about to get some of Maibock from East Rock Brewery in New Haven, Connecticut, last weekend.
Forgot to say that I found it locally in the Hartford area. In a half hour I will drive to Counterweight Brewery to get some Helles and Kellerbier.
We recently did a collaboration brew of a Bock and it turned out amazing! It was more of the doppelbock side.
You missed Maibock season by ONE DAY! hahaha. It was so close to being in May but not quite! I understand these productions take time, though. Just joking around.
Helles bock is my favorite beer style. Pity so few breweries make it. Can drink it all year long.
Love hellesbocks too! have you tried a helles doppelbock like Samichlaus hells? 👌recomended
Excellent explanation!
One of my favorite styles but sadly a pretty underrated one.
agreed
Inspired by your video, I searched the website of my local Government run liquor store for bock. The only beer that matched was "Super Bock". I am not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Both, I reckon
I find it funny that Super Bock doesn''t even have a bock beer in their catalogue
That Utopian bock has been on my Wishlist forever but it's not in their mixed pack if you order directly from the brewery. I had their Rainbock and it was what put me on a lager kick after not touching lagers for years. Style definitions hurt me pea brain and I constantly forget but I much prefer the lighter colour bocks rather than the dark ones.
Duration are based in Norfolk, I think you got them confused with Overtone in Scotland maybe.
Great video guys!
Maibocks are worthy of their own video if you haven't done one already.
Every time I drink beer it is beer that I drink now
Jonny, is your nose insured because the descriptions you give from just a simple sniff are unbelievable!
Also us the Portuguese Super Bock linked to this in anyway or pure coincidence that it is a "bock" beer?
very informative
you should go to Quebec: there's the highest number of craft breweries per capita.
Fuck yes. What’s your fave? Mine is Dieu du Ciel 🫠
@@symphantic4552 I'd have to go with les Insulaire and grand bois
@@nicolascorbeil9263 nice!!
Where did I get the idea Bock was 'bottom of the barrel'? Oh, that's right an encyclopedia of beer.
Wuuut which one!?
@@TheCraftBeerChannel So long ago, around 1999. No idea where the book went.
Bockfest got the best of me this year.
Has it ever not got the best of everyone who goes?!
Time to cover the other Bocks?
Can i ask… when u added the yeast on brewday, i looked like you also added about 2 litres of spent wort from the yeast starter jug???? (Or did i mis-see?) Surely that would have altered the OG and flavour?
I have been searching for a replacement beer for my all time favourite ... Faxe Festbock... a Danish Beer brewed by Royal Unibrew and discontinued around 2016... The Utopian Bock reviewed in this video appears to similar... have you guys ever tried Faxe Festbock 7.7 or 7.0 % and would it be comparable?
Bock, Swartzbier, Dunkle, I get lost just trying to understand these and how they are different from each other
The differences are often slight but technically very clear:
Bock is strong, sweet, hoppy, and can come in a range of colours
Dunkel is a darker version of a helles. Some sweetness, but drier than bock, with a little dark malt caramel, raisin, coffee.
Schwarzbier will display roasted character, be very dark and the driest of the three.
Utopian are so damn good
Bok is a lager and Bock is a high fermented beer
Nice video. Thanks a lot. Never been a bock beer fan, but in the last few years I've really discovered a lot of good ones here in Germany. Especially in Franconia. But rather less Maibock. The region is more famous for their Bockbier from November/December.
But Bock does not necessarily mean goat. It is rather the male goat (Ziegenbock). However, a male sheep (Schafbock) is also very often used in the illustrations on the labels. :)
Well this is interesting to know! Thanks!
Well i suddenly want to make a bock again. You guys need to simmer down, ive just finished brewing a pastry stout (lots of cocoa nibs vanilla and lactose),.
Haha got a DIPA coming soon.... sorry!
I would like to add another tidbit to this. The bocks today are not even close to the original bocks. These beers were viewed as high caloric due to their extremely poor attenuation, a decently attenuated bock would have been lucky to pass 50% and hofbrau breweries bock came at about 43% according to brewing records by Daft Eejit. One scientific reason can be that when those records were around in the 1700s lager strains were just starting to evolve from their wild ancestors from the columbian exchange and needed around two more centuries of selective pressure and evolution to get to the 60-75% attenuation strains that brewers today could use. There's also a chance that the Einbeck beer that eventually became the bock was an ale due to its records dating to the middle ages, long before lager yeast became a thing. It was probably hopped since germanic brewers became some of the first people to utilise hops for their flavouring and preserving purposes according to historical records.
Thanks so much for the awesome extra info! I think the Einbeck ones would 100% have been ales, but very likely hopped.
Bock is one of those rare beasts where I've really been put off a style by a bad experience. I got into a doublebock black hole on a stag weekend which resulted in a hideous hangover which put me off the style. In hindsight it feels like when I got put off whisky by drinking too much bells when I was 17, which I only recovered from by finding single malts in my 30s. Would you recommend any bocks to try to recover from my bad experience?
All of the ones in this video! Plus any of the classics from Munich.
You don't have to jump again into the doppelbock realm, I would say any good dunkles bock or hellesbock will do the trick
Wine has invaded our brains. Sniffing beer? Swirling beer? Most beer smells like butts. One of the greatest thing of craft beer is the absence of pretension (from the beer - definitely not the beer drinkers).
How many beers add colour?
I'm unsure why you discuss historic German beer styles by - errr, sampling English hipster cans.
Because these giant breweries need no promotional help. Small independent breweries making fantastic beer do.
An Einbecker would have been nice.
I'm probably just showing my ignorance here, but what's the deal with the cans? You can't tell me that those breweries don't bottle their product!?
Oh, proper beer nerds buy cans because they're not translucent. Gotcha.
Woop Woop Munich
The sound a chicken makes ?
as a Scot who is an adopted Bayer we dont say Stein its a Maß stein is some bullshit Americanism or something. Bock isnt German for a goat (that would be Ziege) its generally used for a male sheep (schafbock) might also be for male goat but havent heard that
A Ziegenbock is a male goat. The word "Bock" has a relative in English as well: buck. So it is a more generic term for certain male animals, most commonly goats or sheep.
If you just say "Bock" without specifying, my first association (as a native German speaker) would be a goat though. So I don't think the guys were wrong with their translation.
You are right about the stein though.
I thought Stein is right for a stone/ceramic glass?
@@TheCraftBeerChannel I've never heard it (except by English speakers). But according to Wikipedia:
"The English word is attested from 1855. It is borrowed from German Stein, which has - aside from its prevailing meaning "stone" - elder regional meanings "beer mug" and "beer measure of 1 litre or 2 Schoppen" [...]
The word Stein alone is not used any more to refer to a beverage container in standard German"
So it might not have been a purely American invention and I can't rule out completely that there is some regional accent that still uses the word, but again, I've never heard it used. If I didn't know it as an English word I would have no idea what a stein is supposed to be.
@SLM3573 Ziegenbock is also a term for a male goat.
Maass, 0.5 liter. Stein, 1.0 liter.