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Not only is Sam Adams Chocolate Bock delicious, it comes in a really cool bottle too! Too bad you won’t have any.

The Sam Adams Brewing Company made the very sad (but brand-advantageous) decision to only do a few limited bottlings of this delicious beer.

You can find various vintages for sale on eBay (here’s a search on Google Shopping that, at the moment, only returns results on eBay). And, I’m pretty sure that the nice brewers at Sam Adams will bring this rich bottle of goodness back to market someday soon.
Here’s the deal.  I wanted to link directly to the page on the Sam Adams website that provides information on the Chocolate Bock.  But, the site is done in FLASH, and there is no “real” page to point you to.  So, here’s a synopsis of what the company says about the beer:

Samuel Adams® partnered Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop a unique innovation, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock. We started with a complex selection of carefully roasted malts combined with hand-selected Noble hops from Bavaria, the world’s oldest growing area. After using a centuries old brewing process, called Krausening, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs from Felchlin®, a renowned Swiss chocolatier. Known for their quality these wild cocoa nibs, harvested from the rainforest of Northern Bolivia, impart complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey and vanilla in the beer. The resulting beer, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock, has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate, giving this brew a complex full-body taste with a velvety finish.

Tettnang-Tettnanger and Spalt hops were hand-selected from the world’s oldest growing area and combined with a complex selection of malts including two-row Pale, Munich and Caramel to create a rich and satisfying brew. This dark beer has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate. Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock was aged on a bed of cocoa nibs to create its unique layers of flavor. As the beer matured, the fruity, tart, earthy and chocolate aromas were released into the liquid to give the brew a complex, full -bodied taste with a velvety finish. A hint of vanilla was added to meld the symphony of flavors together.

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