{"id":5601,"date":"2011-01-13T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:05:01","slug":"bock-2010-and-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/bock-2010-and-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Bock, 2010 and 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers Association made a few changes to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewersassociation.org\/attachments\/0000\/5183\/BA_2011_Beer_Style_Guidlines.pdf\">style guidelines for 2011<\/a>. The most talked about likely will be renaming the beer formerly known as American-Style India Black Ale, now calling it American-Style Black Ale. The press release also notes several beer style descriptions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brewersassociation.org\/pages\/media\/press-releases\/show?title=brewers-association-announces-2011-style-guidelines\">have been significantly updated.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought you might be curious what that means, and probably don&#8217;t have your own copy of the 2010 guidelines lying around so you can compare to the old and new. Here are both versions of the description of Traditional German-Style Bock. <\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><br \/>\nTraditional bocks are made with all malt and are strong, malty, medium- to full-bodied, bottom-fermented beers with moderate hop bitterness that should increase proportionately with the starting gravity. Malt character should be a balance of sweetness and toasted\/nut-like malt; not caramel. Hop flavor should be low and hop aroma should be very low. Bocks can range in color from deep copper to dark brown. Fruity esters should be minimal. Diacetyl should be absent.<\/p>\n<p>Original Gravity (\u00baPlato) 1.066-1.074 (16.5-18 \u00baPlato)<br \/>\nApparent Extract\/Final Gravity (\u00baPlato) 1.018-1.024 (4.5-6 \u00baPlato)<br \/>\nAlcohol by Weight (Volume) 5-6% (6.3-7.5%)<br \/>\nBitterness (IBU) 20-30<br \/>\nColor SRM (EBC) 20-30 (40-60 EBC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong><br \/>\nTraditional bocks are made with all malt and are strong, malty, medium- to full-bodied, bottom-fermented beers with moderate hop bitterness that should increase proportionately with the starting gravity. Hop flavor should be low and hop aroma should be very low. Bocks can range in color from deep copper to dark brown. Fruity esters should be minimal.<\/p>\n<p>Specification unchanged from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers Association made a few changes to its style guidelines for 2011. The most talked about likely will be renaming the beer formerly known as American-Style India Black Ale, now calling it American-Style Black Ale. The press release also notes several beer style descriptions have been significantly updated. I thought you might be curious &#8230; <a title=\"Bock, 2010 and 2011\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/bock-2010-and-2011\/\" aria-label=\"More on Bock, 2010 and 2011\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1sl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}