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bock beer

[bok]
–noun
a strong, dark beer typically brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption the following spring.
Also called bock.


Origin:
1855–60; < G Bock, Bockbier lit., buck beer, perh. by misdivision of Eimbecker Bier (as if ein Bockbier one Bockbier) beer of Eimbeck in Lower Saxony, Germany
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bock beer   (bŏk)   
n.  A strong dark beer drawn first from the vats, especially in spring.

[Partial translation of German Bockbier : Bock (shortening and alteration of Einbeck, town of northwest Germany in which the beer originated, perhaps influenced by Bock, goat) + Bier, beer.]
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