The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter

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

A black abyss with a thin, still skin of mocha brown. Firm chocolate sweetness, graham crackers, black licorice, and beets in the aroma. Bits of cinnamon, burnt french toast, and that cocoa has a definite Belgian subtlety to it. A kick of metallic astringency on the back. Tastes quite black and salty. It’s lager yeast to start, all musty earth and sweat. Candi sugar, heather honey, and raspberries in a thick, sweet middle. An acrid, hollow mocha made with too much sugar. Peat and oak with a heavy hit of soy sauce before the finish. Soap astringency at the end with a warm pulse of steamed vegetables - broccoli. Palate is full and rich. Really hot, sweet, and salty like an overmarinated prime cut. An undeniably big experience, with no reservations. Thanks Lou!

Date: September 23, 2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Asheville
Appearance: black, whispy tan head
Aroma: huge sweet chocolate aroma with a touch of licorish
Flavor: strong chocolate flavor, lots of sweetness, good balancing bitterness in the finish, a small hint of chalk, a bit of fruity character

Date: March 07, 2009
Mode: draft
Words: leon’s decatur
ever the gamble with the tart sour milk character,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Date: October 02, 2006
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2006
Appearance: dark brown head
Body: creamy body
Flavor: very rich chocolate flavor, nice sweetness, no chalk, no bitterness

Date: June 12, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2006
picking up a bit of sour milk character

Date: January 19, 2008
Mode: draft
Source: Barley’s Asheville
Vintage: 2007
all rich chocolate and no sour milk

Date: January 23, 2008
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2007
all the rich chocolate of the draft version with no sourness

Bottle sample from shigadeyo. Poured a black color with an average creamy brown head that mostly lasted and produced excellent lacing. Heavy roasted chocolate and nutty aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture. Heavy complex roasted port flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of long duration. Complex standout brew.

Pours a dark tan with a nice creamy tan head. Aroma of chocolate, sweet malt, dark fruit, coffee, and some bitter hops. Flavors of coffee, milk chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, smoke, and bready notes. Creamy mouthfeel. A wonderful brew.

Dark Brown Color with Dark Tan Head. Bitter Chocolate and Coffee Roasts Aroma. Chocolate, Rich Coffee Notes Dominate the Brew’s Flavor..Smooth and Creamy Mouthfeel. To Balance the Bitterness, Sweet Molasses Comes Through..and Dark Bread Notes....With a Sweettart Aftertaste. This Brew Isn’t About Being Over-the-top, In-Your-Face Outstanding, It’s About Making an Extremely Solid and Amazing Example of the Style.

Bottle sampled with Dennis Bell a gift from Stegosaurus.Beautiful black pour with beige head. Roasted malt aroma with chocolate and raison. The taste was amazingly smooth with a well balance of chocolate /malt and alcohol. Absolutely fabulous.

This beer was a stud. Pour was dark mocha black. Nose of big time roasted malts. espresso, chocolate, dark fruits. This is a seriously smooth chocolatey velvety fantasmic of a beer.

Bottle sampled thanks to a trade with DrBayern (thanks Matt, cheers). Pours black with a larger tan head, that is well retained. Aroma of dark fruit, roast, and chocolate. The flavor is sweet upfront, nice roasted chocolate, very smooth, there are hints of raisins through out, and a nicely well blended in hoppy bitterness in the finish. Excellent.