New Old Lompoc Jolly Bock

12/27/04
In the New Old Lompoc brewpub, who seem totally without usable website, with a Jolly Bock on tap.

This is a dark lager, with a nice hop nose. It is maltier than most lagers (it is a bock afterall), yet is still pretty crisp, with a pretty high alcohol content, weighing in at 7.1%.

They lager it for over a year. Can I say that? Is that an acceptable use of the word? Did I just verb lager? Welcome the wild frontier of internet English!

This has some nice citrus notes in the finish, very subtle and totally unexpected. The finish also has less hop bitterness than you might expect, while the body is less malty than most bocks, I think. However it’s been a while since I last had a bock, so I’m not entirely certain. Not too many breweries do bocks these days, which is a shame.

Repeat drinkability is quite high. We need to start a revolution here. Bocks should be the new ambers. Let’s do it. I’ll work on t-shirts and drinking lots of bock. You work on drinking bocks and wearing t-shirts if I ever do get them out.

WDTB? People in New Old Lompoc. Which is to say the only semi-worthwhile place on 23rd I’ve seen. Not quite hipsters entirely, not quite all yuppies either. I let the waitress choose this for me.

WSDTB? People who like bocks. People who like ambers. This is better than an amber. So fucking drink it!

Rating: 8.5/10