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
Pours a clear golden color, small white head. Aroma is slightly floral, overall very clean. Drinking this it has a tartness that lends to its charachter, this melds with the american hops to create a decently made am. wheat beer.
Lightly Cloudy Cider Coloring with White Head. Wheat, Bread Dough, Light Citrus on the Nose. Initially a bit Astringent, Citrus and Wheat Notes...Mouthfeel is Like a Blanket on the Tongue..Citrus Bitter Ending. Aftertaste Stays With You. Certainly an Interesting Brew, Historically, a Nice Summer Brew.
Bottle from Eric (footbalm) Thanks! Pours out an orange yellow color with a white head. Smell is lemon, wheat, and some yeast. Taste is smooth and refreshing. Says its bottle conditioned, not sure the point in doing that to a wheat, but whatever. Pretty good and would double as a pretty nice session beer.
This bottled brew poured a very large sized head of foamy finely sized long lasting bubbles that left behind a very dark yellow brown colored semi-opaque carbonated body and a good lacing. The aroma was grainy with doughy malty notes and the mouth feel was mildly tingly from start to finish where it soon mellowed out. It had a wheat gainn malt dough flavor. An OK brew.
Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus for beer night. Thankyou to my west coast connection. Pours copper with an off-white head. Aroma of wheat and toasted malts. The flavor is wheat, citrus, fruit, and toasted malts.
it’m otay. mebbe moreso dan whut um sayin here. rating after drinking Cantillon, HoTD, and other massive beers may not be fair, but I can actually recollect there being some flavor in this little thing, Light, mellow, clean - if I go lite beer stylee this is what I ouwl set my sights on ...
Many thanks to beerhandy for this one. Pours a very hazy opaque amber with a thin white ring of bubbles dotting the glass. Smells of fresh citrus, cloves, and some bananas amidst some breaddy yeast. Tastes of sweet citrus, nuts, roasted malt, and fresh bananas. Interesting blend of tastes and aromas. Mouthfeel is tingly and full bodied. Finish is of sweet citrus. Very drinkable and enjoyable. This’d make an excellent summer session ale. I wish it was available locally.
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