| 21. | The festival celebrates bock beer, the Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine, the city's German heritage, and the coming of spring.
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| 22. | These were bock beers, stronger brews served as the hard winter of Northern Europe was yielding reluctantly to spring.
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| 23. | Hudepohl released a bock beer under the name of the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, the largest pre-prohibition brewery in Cincinnati.
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| 24. | Also Bok, brewed in Autumn and Spring, a tradition closely related to German Bock beer, is an often brewed special.
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| 25. | Scheduled to be released in May 2016, "'Bock Bock "'an imperial barrel-aged bock beer will be offered as a limited release.
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| 26. | No one is quite sure how bock beer came to be imagined in that way, and Germans aren't much more certain themselves.
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| 27. | But two of its other beers won, seemingly confirming my bias that the Texas craft brewer's far-less-popular, non-bock beers are actually superior.
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| 28. | Shiner Bock, in fact, isn't a true bock beer, and Shiner Blonde is the same old Shiner Premium with a new label.
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| 29. | Pick up a guitar, sing some songs about Texas and Shiner Bock beer and, in Texas at least, you're an automatic star.
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| 30. | The local breweries Hebendanz, Greif, Eichhorn and Neder all brew a strong Bock beer specially for this festival, the so-called " Annafestbier ".
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