Picked up a six of Anchor Bock.

Pretty tastey beer. Translucent black in color with a dark
brown head, very roasty in both aroma and taste. Not a
lot of malt flavor to speak of.

In short, apart from the goat on the label, nothing at
all like a bock. A pretty reasonable schwartzbier,
though.

Jon Binkley wrote:

> Picked up a six of Anchor Bock.
>
> Pretty tastey beer. Translucent black in color with a dark
> brown head, very roasty in both aroma and taste. Not a
> lot of malt flavor to speak of.
>
> In short, apart from the goat on the label, nothing at
> all like a bock. A pretty reasonable schwartzbier,
> though.

You've almost described Shiner Bock here, haven't you?
--
dgs

On Jan 26, 9:21 am, dgs > wrote:

> You've almost described Shiner Bock here, haven't you?

Har har.

No, Anchor's only similarity to Shiner is non-bockness. Shiner
suffers from the additional misfortune of not being similar
to *any* good beer style.

dgs > wrote:
>Jon Binkley wrote:
>> Picked up a six of Anchor Bock.
>>
>> Pretty tastey beer. Translucent black in color with a dark
>> brown head, very roasty in both aroma and taste. Not a
>> lot of malt flavor to speak of.

>You've almost described Shiner Bock here, haven't you?

Presumably minus the corn, and with some actual roasty
character. (Unless Shiner Bock has changed in the past
couple years.)
--
Joel Plutchak "I never let anything as tenuous as moral
standards get in the way of drinking beer."
- Jon Binkley

The main problem with their Bock is that they brew
it with their ale yeast. So its got a lot of fruity ale
like character.

Apparently they can't brew it with their lager yeast,
because they don't have room to brew another lager.


On Jan 26, 9:04 am, "Jon Binkley" > wrote:
> Picked up a six of Anchor Bock.
>
> Pretty tastey beer. Translucent black in color with a dark
> brown head, very roasty in both aroma and taste. Not a
> lot of malt flavor to speak of.
>
> In short, apart from the goat on the label, nothing at
> all like a bock. A pretty reasonable schwartzbier,
> though.