$15 a bottle?

The holidays are all about giving, or so I've been told. I thought it was all about Jesus getting dressed up and dying his beard white, but apparently I was misled.

Anywho, this particular holiday had me convinced that I should get in the giving spirit by tossing some money to good ol' Uncle Sam Adams, who would in return give me a bottle of Chocolate Bock. "How can I go wrong," I thought to myself, "with a bottle with such an elegant little plastic label on it. And a hang tag!"

Well, boys and girls, I'll tell you how I can go wrong. When I spend $15 on a single bottle that has the words "chocolate bock" written on it, I fully expect to be rewarded with a taste reminiscent of a mountain goat that drowned in a vat of the finest native Swiss chocolates, or at the very least, took a bath in a tub of Yoo-Hoo. But no! Oh no, this beer offers none of that.

It turns out that Sam Adams Chocolate Bock is brewed with "nibs". It sounded to me like an attempt at coming off classy, but I really had no idea what the hell nibs were. It turns out that nibs are defined as "A person in authority, especially one who is self-important". What? You mean to tell me that instead of a chocolate coverd goat, I'm actually drinking my overbearing, narcissistic, ego-maniac boss? What the hell is he doing in my beer? And shouldn't he be paying me?

Regardless, after all of this mucking about with goats and nibs, there was a valuable lesson to be learned. But I spent my last $15 on that beer, so now I'll never know what that lesson was.