The Duck-Rabbit Rabid Duck Russian Imperial Stout

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

Pours black, with a brown head. Aroma is chocolate, malt, dark fruit, and molasses. Dark fruit and chocolate flavor, with malt and coffee. Sweet in the beginning, but grow slighty bitter in the finish. Another Duck Rabbit winner. Thanks to Jmichael for this one.

bottle.....appearance: looks very typical of an imperial stout. deep black with a thin tannish head. medium to light bodied judging from the pour.....aroma: chocalate and malt, some dark fruit. nothing extraordinary.....taste: chocalate, malty, roast with a sourness to it that i didn’t appreciate. carbonation level was a bit high as well.

This Imperial Stout pours a eclipse black color form a 12oz bottle. Medium sized tan foamy head. Aroma is chocolate and roasty. A medium bodied Imperial Stout. Malts are chocolate and coffee. Hops are earthy. There is a touch of soy sauce and smoke here as well as the chocolate and roasty malts. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Pours near deep black with a nice thin lastin head and some lace. Aroma is loaded with chocolate malts, and fruity yet not out of control esters- dark dried fruits, a bit of leather and hints of roast as it warms as well. Licorice and dark chocolate flavors, plum, raisin, roasted nuts, hints of coffee- and a bit sweet before turing a bit tannic, bitter and a little astringent. Good full mouthfeel and smooth palate. Top notch impy stout.

Pours like a typical Imperial Stout. Aroma of chocolate and coffee. Taste of coffee and chocolate, also had an odd taste I couldn’t place. Still not bad.

Courtesy of Styles

Bottle: The aroma consists of roasted coffee, chocolate, alcohol, and faint plum. As it warms the alcohol really increases in the nose. It pours a dark brown with no transparency and a small brown head. The flavor starts with light chocolate and moderate sour fruitiness. It finishes with moderate roasted coffee that lingers in the aftertaste. There’s some faint alcohol in the finish. The mouthfeel is slightly thin, but still slick and oily.

A dark black appearance with a beige head. A coffee, chocolate, and charcoal aroma. This is a very sweet impy stout exhibiting chocolate, molasses, coffee, and raisins. A very nice beer indeed!

Delightful muted aroma of roasted nuts, coffee. Very dark with a dark tan bubbly head. A complicated flavor of caramel, dark chocolate, and hops with a bit of an alcohol burn on the finish. A really complex strong beer that leaves a great taste in the mouth. The only knock is that it’s not the easiest drinking Imperial out there. Still, totally delightful.