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
20070702 12oz bottle thanks to TDY. The label on the bottle I had didn’t look like the one pictured here but how many fairly common Choc Beers from Oklahoma could there be? Pretty standard American wheat but this bottle showed some age, probably six months old at the time it was opened so besides the requisite wheaty phenols and citrus notes there were also hints of oxidation, cardboard flavors and aromas. Otherwise bland and unremarkable. Thanks Greg.
Bottle at the Cattlemans Steakhouse in Oklahoma City. Hazy yellow color with a small white head. Aroma and flavor of wheat and a little lemon/citrus. ok
Thanks to decaturstevo for sharing this bottle. Poured a cloudy yellow with a thin white head. Wheat aroma backed with light lemon and a slight hint of spices. Very subdue flavor of lemon and wheat bread. Light body and crisp with no aftertaste found.
Clean light golden pour with white head and lace. Hard corn with a bit of a bitter nose. Semi sweet corn very light bitter slight paper after taste. Medium bodied with aggressive carbonation. Pretty decent beer very drinkable and refreshing.
Bottle shared by Decaturstevo. Pours a pale golden with some slight haze. Lemon and wheaty aroma. Light bodied. Flavor of pale wheat malt, lemon, and something I can’t quite pinpoint, maybe sweet cereal?
(Bottle, courtesy of Swalden_28) Pours a lightly hazy pale yellow body with a small fizzy white head. Aroma of wheat, corn, and lemon zest. Flavor of wheat, soapy, and some flax seed. Earlier Rating: 2/26/2006 Total Score: 2.2 (Bottle) Pours a murky golden maize-tan body with a small off-white head. Aroma of florals, corn, and lemon. Flavor of mild hops with a gritty mouthfeel and bitter finish.
Bottle courtesy of ericandersnavy. Pours a hazy, bright golden yellow with a bubbly white head that dissipated quickly to a ring with no lacing. Smell is of light grains, wheat and barley even, in addition to very light hops with lemon zest. The flavor is also a mesh of light grains and a bit of light hops. The mouthfeel is medium with high carbonation with a crisp finish. The drinkability on this one is good but, overall, this is really an average wheat beer with nothing standing out in the flavor.
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