Bock is a dark, rich beer. This vivid depiction of a drinker recalls the animated portraits by seventeenth-century Dutch masters like Frans Hals that Édouard Manet greatly admired. https://t.co/KO2QDZnH1b

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'Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar, and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
'Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese,' he said.' ('The Blue Carbuncle')

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