Picked up a six of Anchor Bock.
Pretty tastey beer. Translucent black in color with a dark brown head, very roasty in both aroma and taste. Not a lot of malt flavor to speak of.
In short, apart from the goat on the label, nothing at all like a bock. A pretty reasonable schwartzbier, though.
You've almost described Shiner Bock here, haven't you?
Har har.
No, Anchor's only similarity to Shiner is non-bockness. Shiner suffers from the additional misfortune of not being similar to *any* good beer style.
Presumably minus the corn, and with some actual roasty character. (Unless Shiner Bock has changed in the past couple years.)
The main problem with their Bock is that they brew it with their ale yeast. So its got a lot of fruity ale like character.
Apparently they can't brew it with their lager yeast, because they don't have room to brew another lager.
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