Commercial Description: Choc beer was named after its place of origin, the Choctaw Nation. The Choctaw people brewed a homemade beer and taught the Italian immigrants, who came to work in the coal mines, how to make the home brew. Pete Pritchard was one of those immigrants. He came to the US with his family in 1903 and began to work in the coal mines at age eleven. At twenty-one years of age, he was nearly killed in a mine accident. After the accident, Pete Pritchard began making and selling choc beer, along with sausages and cheese in his home in Krebs. A prosperious business developed and in 1925, Peter formally opened a restaurant in his home. Pete's Place Restaurant served choc beer until 1932 when Pete was arrested for the brew.
In 1964, Bill Prichard, the sone of the original owner, developed a "gentleman's agreement" with the powers that be about the illegal choc beer...until a statewide newspaper ran a front page, headline story about the agreement. That was the end of choc beer at Pete's until Joe Prichard, Bill's son who now wears the chef's hat and has the choc beer recipe, reintroduced choc beer as a legal brew in 1995.
Choc brand beer is brewed in small batches in our brewery using the finest ingredients. Starting with beer-perfect Krebs water, we blend American Malted Barley, wheat, and roasted malts with American-grown Liberty and Cascade hops to create more than just a beer... a legendary Choc beer is unfiltered, so all the flavor we create stays where it belongs. And since it's unfiltered, you may notice a cloudy haze in the beer. This is normal. Tradition dictates Choc beer be "bottle-conditions," which means it's fermented a second time in the bottle, as well as aged in the bottle, resulting in a thin layer of yeast at the bottom. You can choose to carefully decant the beer off the yeast, or simply drink it, as we do, and let the yeast travel into your glass. Either way, we hope you enjoy our beer, a handcrafted Krebs original. Style: American wheat Color: Golden opaque Ingredients: 2-row malted barley and malted wheat, Liberty and Cascade hops Bitterness Units: 15 IBU's Alcohol: Alcohol by volume 5.0%, Alcohol by weight 3.9, also available in 3.2% Alcohol by weight version
Has a cloudy pale orange color with a 1" head which settles to an off white sheen. Smell is a subtle yeasty, black pepper and citrusy . Light bodied with good carbonation. Taste is a mildly tart wheat malt flavor sprinkled with black pepper. Has a refreshing citrusy tang to finish. Very drinkable on a hot summers day.
Serving type is a 12 oz. can, an aluminium can. july 2004
Bottle: Pours a hazy pale gold with an off whtie head. Aroma, yeasty, bready, with some spice and grassy notes. Flavor, bready with some light malts, herbal and grassy hops to it, some wheat.
22oz bottle at Cattlemen’s Cafe: poured a cloudy honey yellow with a fairly thick white head. Yeast and coriander dominate the aroma. The taste was quite nice with yeast, wheat, coriander and hops. Nice body. Good beer. Earlier Rating: 12/20/2005 Total Score: 3.1 On tap at Tapwerks, OKC, OK. Poured orange/yellow with a smallish white head. Mild fruity aroma of peaches and apples. Light hops. Light peach and hop flavor. Pretty nice medium body. A good beer.
Bottle from Naclamie in Sept. 2007. Pours with small head quickly fading. Yellow color became cloudy with yeast sediment. Some banana in the aroma. A little sting when I taste it: a combination of carbonation, hops, and a little metallic taste. Leans a little toward the sweet side. Not bad.
Poured a cloudy gold with a scant white head that offered up virtually no lacing. The aroma was yeast, lemon and grainy wheat. The flavor is acidic lemon cut with wheat. Very drinkable and quite refreshing. The finish is fine and the mouthfeel is watery. But I have very fond memories of this beer, so it gets a 3.0.
Bottle, blind taste. Cloudy light pour, small whispy head. Aroma is tart and lemony with crackers and token wheat notes. Quite a watery beer with only lemony notes jumping out at my palate. I get a bit of obvious wheat and a flat, papery finish. The hints at lemon are the strongest thing here and really save the beer.
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