The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter

Brewed by The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Style: Baltic Porter
Farmville, North Carolina USA

Pours smooth, black and oily. A thin tan head emerges as the strong aroma fills the air. The nose is pungent with milk chocolate, dark fruits, and coffee. The taste is complex, constantly evolving as the beer warms. Raisins and licorice become more apparent as the beer nears room temperature. Hardly a porter, it should be called an imperial stout. An excellent beer from a company who knows how to brew dark beers. A+

Pours a motoroil colour. Chocolate, coffee, and roasted malt in the nose. Taste matched the aroma with a touch of dark fruit and possibly licorice as it warmed. Very solid. I have wanting to try this for two years and it did not disappoint.

I guess Im just against the grain. I can appreciate a roasted, dark beer, but I dont think it is heaven on earth. How is this not an impy stout? Midnight black. Tons of coffee and chocolate in the nose. Flavor matches the nose. Very oily. Good, burnt finish. One of the smoothest beers Ive had in the dark beer category. Sigh, five more to sip through.

Poured from a 12-oz bottle. Best enjoy by date of 10/09. Appearance was black with a thin brown head. Smell was all over the place - either that or I was imaging things. Thought I detected chocolate, toffee, burnt grain, raisins, caramel and molasses. A sweet carbonated taste of roasted malts, cofee, dark fruit with a bit of an alcohol finish.

Bottle. Pours a motoroil black with a cappuccino head. Insane lacing. Aromas of molasses, dark chocolate, salt water, and loads of chocolate malt. Taste is lots of coffee, unsweetened chocolate, roasted malt, espresso. Ends with a sour, tart, acidic taste. Thick bodied. Oily mouthfeel. Awesome.

This thing has the appearance of a good imperial stout. I was very impressed. Opaque, and a nice thin chocolate colored head sitting on top. Whoa, this made my Saturday night, forget the ladies, right guys!? This beer is too one sided for me. It is all about the roast. I don’t think the description is misleading. I am actually glad that I didn’t pay for a 6-pack and found this in a mix-a-six section of Green’s. The beer has a weak aroma of roast. It also has some sweet aroma, but not much. I am not impressed because this thing is not that pungent to me. I am not sick, so it is not my nostrils. I can say this is a nice creamy beer. The alcohol really comes out with the roast which is a nice combo. I like this roast taste. I just think it is too one sided. There is some slight coffee, and chocolate taste, but the damn roast is taking over my life at this moment. The sweet flavor really comes out at first, but the other flavors quickly kick in. Overall, I think the beer is nice, but just focuses too heavily on the roast. As for a "sipping beer" I don’t know I need something a little more harsh to stop. I would say that for a Baltic Porter, and I have only had 2, this was the better one.

12oz bottle. deep dark black color with a small dark tan head. wow. huge aroma of dark chocolate and coffee. taste is silky smooth and full, big chocolate and roast. this is delicious. almost too sweet at first with just a taste of alcohol in the finish that comes out as it warms. great sipper on a cold winter night. gift from my daughter home for the holiday.

Pours dark black with minimal head. Aromas of chocolate and molasses. Thick and full bodied. Smooth finish with hint of alcohol, excellent as typical of duck-rabbit seasonals.