Bock is Buck in Colorado
By Dave Thomas
Bock beer is a strong, dark lager beer style first brewed in the fourteenth century by the brewers in Einbeck, Germany. Einbeck brewers were actually civil servants, the only ones allowed by the Einbeck City Council to brew bock beer in brew kettles that were, in fact, owned by the city. This enabled the brewer to oversee the entire brewing process and certify its final quality before it could be sold. The word “bock” is German for billy goat, and that is why a likeness of this animal or a variation of a goat name is usually associated with this particular beer style, even today. It seemed that many early Colorado brewers playfully changed “bock” to “buck.”
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