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From: mbk@psddevl.UUCP (Mike Blake-Knox)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Bock Beer
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 17:34:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 17:34:59 1984
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Bock beers are certainly at least a US/Canadian tradition
as there are three currently available in Ontario including
a 'malt liquor'. 
 
I called one of the breweries and was told that the name
comes from the "Einbeck" brewery near Hamburg which made
a particularly good brew after a very hard winter. It
can now be made at any time of the year apparently, and
Molson's does sell it year round.

White beer might be the German beer brewed from wheat and served with
lemon. It is called Wiesbier and weis does mean white in German.
The people in my local German Restaurant however, don't seem to
think the wies means white in this case.
The (Austrian) fellow I talked to at the brewery agreed Wiesbier
was the name for it but also didn't think one should take it
literally to mean 'white beer'. Apparently, it is made from
a mixture of wheat and barley malt and is 'top fermented'.
 
Mike Blake-Knox