Bock Lagers - Can You Buy Them In Oz?

[nabs478]

Howdy,

I went to grain and grape about 6 weeks ago to buy some stuff, and they had a keg set-up in store with a bock lager that was produced from one of their extract kits. It was saturday morning, about 10am, but I was heading to the footy so a put down a few of them, the beer was great.

So a week and a half later I brewed up my own bock from an AG recipe from "How to Brew", and it's lagering at the moment and looking the goods.

I have never actually tasted a commerical bock before. I have looked through a few bottle shops' beer ranges, including a Dan Murphy's and the only one I can find is a dark bock, by a micro brewery in Victoria, which I have tried before.

Does any one know where, if anywhere, in Melbourne I can buy some brand of bock lager?

Thanks

Pip

 

[razz]

I can see at least three mentioned on the G&G website Pip. http://www.grainandgrape.com.au/articles_o.../beerlist01.htm

 

[Stuster]

the only one I can find is a dark bock, by a micro brewery in Victoria, which I have tried before.

Not Buckley's by any chance? If so, I'm surprised you tried a bock again. h34r: :lol:

 

[fraser_john]

I used to get mine from Bannockburn Cellars in Geelong years ago, not sure if they have it anymore. Most likely you will have to find a good independant bottle shop or go back to G&G, I note they have Paulaner Salvator.....mmmmmm bought a large can of this once at a coffee stand in Munich railway station and had it for breakfast better than cereal! Though thats a dopplebock.... <_<

 

[bconnery]

I'd guess that somewhere in Melbourne there would be a German Club (I mean if Brisbane has one ).

That would be a good bet. The one here has a couple of different bocks at various times.

Places like 1st choice have Aventius, which is a weizenbock, and the salvator one, but I can't recall if I've seen any plain, if that's the word, bocks around for a while, if ever, outside of said German club...

http://www.germanclubtivoli.com.au

I found this place too...

http://www.austrian-associations.com/index_files/Page694.htm

Maybe Melbourne has a lowenbrau cafe place? They might have a bock...

 

[nabs478]

Ahh ze germans...always the first people to turn to when there is an issue with beers.

I forgot, on my search for a bock, that G&G sell beers too...I'll get a few when I next order stuff from them.

As for the German club idea, I drive past an Austrian club everyday on the way to uni. Maybe I'll drop in and ask them. The only thing about that place I find confusing is that they have two signs along their front fence...

1. Visitors Welcome

2. Trespassers will be prosecuters.

But I'm sure if its a beer related question, I will be a visitor not a tresspasser.

Thanks for your help

 

[nabs478]

Not Buckley's by any chance? If so, I'm surprised you tried a bock again. h34r: :lol:

Actually it was buckley's.

A dark bock is not really my favourite style of beer, but I though it was well made though.

 

[jendres]

Actually it was buckley's.

A dark bock is not really my favourite style of beer, but I though it was well made though.

The first time I had buckley's bock, I thought something was wrong with the batch and couldn't drink it. I think it was in a bottle. Anyway, I gave them another go at last years Vic Micro exhibition. It was ok, not spectacular, but drinkable. This was on tap.

So I tried them again this year and it tasted crap again. Maybe they'll get it right in the future, but I won't be trying it again. :unsure:

 

[blackbock]

A dark bock is not really my favourite style of beer, but I though it was well made though.

What? You don't like a black bock? :blink:

I am yet to taste a bock I truly enjoyed from a bottle or can in Aus. And most of the commercial examples I have tried on tap are either slightly roasty or way too sweet. This is a shame as Urbock is a marvellous beer style when tasted in an appropriate season. Keep searching and eventually you will find the motherlode!

 

[Pumpy]

Howdy,

I went to grain and grape about 6 weeks ago to buy some stuff, and they had a keg set-up in store with a bock lager that was produced from one of their extract kits. It was saturday morning, about 10am, but I was heading to the footy so a put down a few of them, the beer was great.

So a week and a half later I brewed up my own bock from an AG recipe from "How to Brew", and it's lagering at the moment and looking the goods.

I have never actually tasted a commerical bock before. I have looked through a few bottle shops' beer ranges, including a Dan Murphy's and the only one I can find is a dark bock, by a micro brewery in Victoria, which I have tried before.

Does any one know where, if anywhere, in Melbourne I can buy some brand of bock lager?

Thanks

Pip

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...mp;#entry233227

Nice drive for a Sunday

Pumpy

 

[jimmy01]

The first time I had buckley's bock, I thought something was wrong with the batch and couldn't drink it. I think it was in a bottle. Anyway, I gave them another go at last years Vic Micro exhibition. It was ok, not spectacular, but drinkable. This was on tap.

So I tried them again this year and it tasted crap again. Maybe they'll get it right in the future, but I won't be trying it again. :unsure:

Yep Buckleys Bock is terrible