bock beer

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