Bock o’clock: The beer that signals spring’s arrival

In pre-industrial days, beer making used to be more beholden to the weather and the seasons. One needed Mother Nature to bestow upon brewers the right temperatures for making beer, and in the days before refrigeration and even thermometers, that meant that brewing was largely dictated by the caprices of the seasons.

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