Bock Beer
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bock - Dunkler Bock Regular Out of Production|
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6.95
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Ingredients: Finest barley malts, wheat malts, and fresh whole hops.
Bock beer, released in celebration of the arrival of spring, is an ancient and mysterious part of the brewing tradition. Over time, the term "bock" has come to mean a beer darker and stronger than the brewery’s regular brew. This is the first time we have brewed a bock at Anchor Brewing Co., and we hope you will find it to be a rich and flavorful addition to our offerings. San Francisco’s Anchor Bock Beer is virtually handmade by the brewers of Anchor Steam® Beer, in one of the most traditional small breweries in the world.
Bock beer, released in celebration of the arrival of spring, is an ancient and mysterious part of the brewing tradition. Over time, the term "bock" has come to mean a beer darker and stronger than the brewery’s regular brew. This is the first time we have brewed a bock at Anchor Brewing Co., and we hope you will find it to be a rich and flavorful addition to our offerings. San Francisco’s Anchor Bock Beer is virtually handmade by the brewers of Anchor Steam® Beer, in one of the most traditional small breweries in the world.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355 ml bottle, from the foreign beer bar at the Darlington Spring Thing Beer Festival 2011. ABV is 5.5%. Mahogany to dark ruby colour, big beige head. Malty aroma with notes of Schwarzbrot and caramel. The flavour is also very malty with notes of caramel and brown bread, very moderate hops. Nice enough to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2011
at 13:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Trader Joes’s, DC single ($1.42): Pours a darkish red brown color with a tan head. Aroma is slight roasted malts with some fruit aromas in there as well. Slightly sweet. Got a bitter finish. Really German flavors shining through better than most American bocks.Got some bread going up in there. Liqueur flavors and the like. Good stuff and very drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2011
at 13:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 2
Overall 6.5
Raisin and sweet malt nose. Cola brown, medium tan head, good lacing. Tart raisins and plum. Heavy on the fizz. Decent.
Tried
on 10 Mar 2011
at 18:47
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle. Pours deep, deep brown with a light brown head. Aroma has lots of dark fruits, raisin and red grape, some molasses, toffee, and caramel. Flavor has the dark fruits, toffee, and caramel, but leans more strongly into coffee and roasty territory. This is really quite tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2011
at 21:45
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at the Euston Tap. Pours a rich, reddish-brown with a warm, beige head. Sweet aroma with lightly roasted malts, some caramel, some yeast. Quite sweet flavor, malty, with ripe fruits and further caramel, along with moderate bitterness. Light to medium in body with average carbonation. Finishes sweet and malty with some lingering roast. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2010
at 15:04
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Mixed berry nose. Pours chocolate. Complex taste of mild licorice, berry and marshmallow malt. Rated 4/10/10
Tried
on 29 Apr 2010
at 15:29
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Anchor Bock pours a beautiful shade of nut brown, a dark mahogany highlighted with maroon and mocha. The head is substantial and leaves good lacing. The aroma is sweet with some nuttiness, like a good, heavy pumpernickel or dark rye bread with a sprinkling of caramelized sugar. The malt is definitely the star. The beer really smells like bread; there’s even a baker’s yeast flavor lurking. The flavor is a bit sweet for my taste, but it’s far from bad. It’s an aggressively malty beer, more of a bread in a glass style beer than most American bocks.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Apr 2010
at 22:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle. Pours a dark color, notes of red. Small tan head. Aroma is malty, hops, notes of dried fruits. Flavor is a nice balance of malts and hops, touches of fruit. A pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2010
at 00:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, Beer Ritz, Leeds. Poured a dark ruby tinged brown colour with a small head. Aroma not bad, roasted sweet malts and citrus. Flavour was roast malty, not much sweetness. Drinkable enough but lacks any real balance. Pretty underwhelmed really.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2010
at 13:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Utobeer. Very dark ruby, thin tan head. Yes a little bocky on aroma, some fresh prune, some jammy fruit. Yes its a half decent beer, with a lot of dry malt in the mouth and on the swallow. Some faint hop sting on the end. Its fine. Quite drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2009
at 12:30