bock beer

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bock beer

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From German Bockbier, from Bock + Bier (“beer”). The former component is a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (“-brook”) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (“buck”).

noun bock beers

A strong, dark lager of German origin.

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noun strong, dark lager of German origin

Deutsch	Bockbier

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@misc{bock_beer_2026,
  title = {bock beer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bock%20beer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}