The Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout

Brewed by The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Farmville, North Carolina USA

Draft at Pinhook. Dark brown with thin tan head and light lacing. Nose is roast with a hint of milky lactose and grassy hops. Flavor is rich roasty malts with light dairy presence and med-high hop bitterness and grassy flavor. Full-bodied rich malty texture like a milkshake. An amazingly smooth and flavorful stout, great example of this lesser known style.

Dark brown pour. Thin ring of head. Aromas of roast, cream, vanilla. Very simple beer. Slight tangy and tart flavor, which IMO does not work well with this beer. Simple beer. Drinkable, but far from my favorite. I’m slightly underwhelmed with Duck Rabbit thus far, but not enough to write them off completely. Thanks zizzybalubba!

Bottle. Drank a whole sixer of this on my trip to NC. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is roast, coffee, chocolate, and caramel. Flavor is coffee and cream, roasted malt, and caramel malt. A little milk chocolate. Palate is medium-full and creamy. Pretty solid overall.

Found old notes from Northern Virginia Summer BrewFest. On Tap. Pours a black color with a small dark tan head. Aromas are sweet malts, touch of caramel, cream. Flavor is pretty smooth, with a nice creamy body and a sweet malt flavor. Not too bitter, nicely balanced.

Pours an interesting cola like tint with nearly no head, even after a rather aggressive pour. In the event that this is a bad bottle, I will updated this rating on the second go round, but this lack of head is a big harbinger of issues to come. Smell is about normal for a milk stout, caramel and creamy scents, a hint of a sour smell, no booze or hop presence. Taste is similar to the smell, an average milk stout. Mouth has huge issues, carbonation is nearly non existent and this is incredibly thin.

12 oz bottle pours black with a medium sized creamy beige head that fades to a bubbly creamy ring. Coffee roasted malts with sweet sugars, red fruits, that almost have a touch of bourbon with some phenols. The roasted malts and coffee take a back seat to the sweetness that follows this through and through. Not over the top but present enough. The acidic roast with the sweet malts leave almost a sour taste. Bitter roast and sweet slightly sour finish. I’m not in love with it, but I’m not in love with the style either.

Draught at the Brick Store Pub in Atlanta. Pours dark black with a small brown head. Somewhat thin toasted malt aroma, with a bit of nuttiness and sweetness. Flavor a somewhat odd mixture of heavy roastiness with a bitter character, and a bit of lactose sweetness. Well balanced and pretty good.

12oz bottle. Pours a dark brown/black with a smallish tan head. Chocolate, coffee, smooth roast and some caramel. Very smooth and lush, slightly drying. Light creamy sweetness, rich roasty cocoa, with a nice long coffee and roast finish. Medium mouthfeel and carbonation. Very drinkable, excellent milk stout.