The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter

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

12 oz. bottle. Pours with no head, looks like thin wine. Aroma is primarily of alochol with raisin, prunes and chocolate. Palate is smooth and rounded with good carbonation. Flavor is full of prune with dark roasted coffee, chocoatle and an awkward sweetness. Overall, found it poorly balanced and unrefined.

Bottle: Very dark pour with a bubbly tan ring for head. Meaty aroma with tons of mocha roast. Some underlying phenolics are there, and booze notes. The flavor has lots of booze and roast, but it’s balanced. Some dark chocolate and mocha, and a slightly tart booziness. A solid Baltic Porter.

(thx thebeercellar) jet black pour, not much of a head. A sweet, almost coffee smell, but not quite. A heavyly roasted, oily soy, and tarty choc taste. Medium body with a dry roasted slightly bitter finish. This beer caught be a little of guard, its unique, and not what i was expecting. A good beer!

Fresh winter 2007 vintage. This brew pours a very dark chocolate brown body. A small, foamy tan head settles pretty quickly to just a thin rim, leaving behind minimal spotty lacing. The aroma is intensely malty and rich. Dark chocolate, roasty caramel, nougat, coffee, and dark fruits all emerge in well transitioned layers. The nose is really inviting, despite mild alcoholic fumes. The flavor follows suit, with malt after malt building upon one another. It tastes like figs steeped in melted dark chocolate, all filtered and added to a roasty, creamy coffee. Finishes medium long, roasty and bittersweet. The body is full, smooth, and viscous. Its almost silky, and perfectly carbonated. Awesome beer. Not quite living up to Koff Porter, which is the king of the Baltics in my opinion, but it is damn good nonetheless.

Dark pour with little head. Very strong smell of alcohol. Chocolate, coffee, and many other flavors. Tingley on the tongue and very complex. A nice warming porter.

Bottle from quagmite. Thanks, dude! Absolutely killer Baltic. Man, this thing is amazing. Jet black with not much of a head. Smells really dark and rich and has a fairly prevalent alcohol aroma also. I like it. Tastes every bit as dark and rich as it smells and the alcohol is evident in the taste as well but it only adds to the flavor of this beer. Amazingly complex. I taste everything from chocolate to coffee to Whoppers! No kidding! I wish I could get this on a regular basis but it came on a trade from quagmite! Thanks for this gem!

Pours a very deep, dark brown almost black with a coffee colored head. Strong malty aroma with lots of chocolate and coffee with hints of tofee, nut and sugar. Rich, malty flavor with dark chocolate, coffee, toffee, sugar cane, alcohol ad dark fruit. Very smooth and creamy up front with a warming alcohol snsation in the finish. Excellent.

Pours a deep, dark, burnt caramel black with a minimal, quickly receding brown head. Aroma of coffee bitter, burnt toast, yeasty alcohol, and some hints of pit fruit (especially cherry). Really nice smokey malts, dark roast coffee dominates flavor along with the heavy alcoholic tinge. Palate is a hilite, very smooth despite strong alcohol. A really tasty brew. These guys truly are dark beer specialists. Alas there is now a barleywine on the market... If only I lived in eastern nc still. I feel like I remain one step behinid this fantastic brewery.