The Duck-Rabbit Rabid Duck Russian Imperial Stout

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

Bottle thanks to daknole, best by 04/09 (No idea how old this makes it), wow this was good! Pours thick with a deep brown head that dissipates over the black body. Aroma of DR fruity yeast, vanilla, chocolate, oak, unami and licorice. Taste is wood, roast, sweet fruits, smoke, chocolate, plums and figs. Very complex. Syrupy mouthfeel, mouth coating with light carbonation.

[1771-20081013] 355mL bottle. Plum fruit dark fig and roasted malt aroma. Dark brown black body with a medium-lasting creamy tan head. Coffee plum roast flavour has mild cocoa hints and slightly noticeable alcohol. Full body. Very nice stout: solid, heavy and lovely.
<i>(c/o tuqueboy, w/ him, jerc)</i>

12oz bottle courtesy of onenote81. Pours a murky dark brown to black with a tannish yellow head. Good retention and lacing. Aroma is sweet and creamy with notes of chocolate, heavy cream, ripe dark fruit, dark cherries, slight notes of coffee, toffee, and roasted malt. Flavor is sweet and roasted with notes of ripe dark fruit, toffee, candy sugar, molasses, dark chocolate, some yeastiness. Generally medium body with a pleasing malty coffee finish.

Bottle courtesy of mreusch. Thanks again for the bottle, Matt! Pours jet black with a lasting creamy mocha head; quite pretty. The nose is of solid, sweet dark fruit, cherries and chocolate over dark roast. Medium-bodied and creamy, it transitions to a moderately acidic finish. Black cherries, dark fruit and dark roasted malt with a distinctly dry Fantome-like yeast quality at the finish. The appearance and nose promised great things, but I found the flavor profile a bit of a Frankenstein. Perhaps some age might have smoothed the edges a bit, but as it is, it doesn’t do much for me.

12 oz bottle graciously shared by Gregis. 08 notched on bottle. Pour is deep black, cloudy with thin ruby highlights. Head is one inch, khaki, falls pretty fast with pretty lacing. Aroma of roasty espresso maltiness. Some tobacco, some sweet cane sugar. Touch of cherry fruit. Taste is soy, grassy, than the roastiness from the nose. The cane sugar sweetness comes in mid-palate, featuring some cherry and really overwhelms the finish. Sweetness continues to dominate the taste, getting a bit cloying. The alcohol is present in the end, and jumps out. This probably could have used a bit of age on it, a little jagged right now. Thanks for sharing Greg.

Black with medium deep beige head. Vinious aroma with notes of wood, dark overripe fruits, chocolate and coffee. Flavour has bitter espresso, dark bitter chocolate, again wood and hard roasted malt. Very vinious deep and delicious. Finishes dry with niced balanced hops. I Like!

12 oz bottle: Aroma is dark..dark chocolate, very roasted malt characteristic, toffee, and a slight alcohol tinge. Appearance is pitch black with a thick sized tan head that lingers. Taste is thick and buttery. It is kind of unusual really thick, heavy on the tongue. It has got some roasted malt, heavy malt characteristic, heavy cream, and almost chewy. Overall, the aroma was awesome, appearance...great, but the taste and palate are a little off. Cheers!

Pours a nice dark with a little tan head smell of coffee and chocolate initial bitter taste with roasted taste has a chocolate and sweet fruit aftertaste this is good stuff and very smooth for 10% alcohol