White Rabbit Brewery Dark Ale

Dark Ale

 

White Rabbit Brewery in Geelong, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺

  Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.34
ABV: 4.9% IBU: 27 Ticks: 34
An intriguing dark ale that moves to its own beat, our minds set about creating a beer that contradicted itself. Rich, dark and flavoursome but at the same time ever refreshing. Malt driven but with the aromatic lift of generous doses of hops.

With the help of traditional open fermentation tanks we let our Dark Ale yeast play... and it likes to play hard. Yeast normally does its thing in closed tanks that tends constrains it work, but with open tanks (that are just like a big soup tin without the lid), the yeast is allowed to run wild.

Raisin like esters bind a balancing act of flavour with a malt bill that rewards the parched palate and delivers a rich, dark colour.

Passed through a hop back laden with whole hop flowers prior to a liberal dry hopping regime during open fermentation, this is a dark ale with a generous amount of reassuring bitterness.
 

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

330ml bottle. Clear, mahogany colour with ruby shimmer and small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Toasty, minimally nutty, dark malty and minimally caramel malty aroma, hints of toasted nuts, some caramel, dry cocoa, nougat, a touch of treacle, whiffs of cola. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty and slightly nutty, toasty dark malty, hints of nougat, toasted nuts, some caramel, a touch of treacle, cola, mildly bitter hoppy counterpart.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Fairly meaty, a tad heterogeneous, rather sweet - OK.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2025 at 22:27


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle pours out dark cola brown topped with a tan head. Nose is nice rich roast malts some light chocolate and a little metallic. Taste is more of the rich roast malts some chocolate and a little leather.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2024 at 11:43


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at Beer DeLuxe, Melbourne. Off black colour with a pale tan head. Aroma and taste are malty light coffee and slight bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2024 at 06:19


Tried on 29 Oct 2022 at 04:13


5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

16/10/2022. Bottle from Cellarbrations. Pours mahogany brown with a small frothy beige head. Aroma is malty, light roasted, toasted, mild chocolate, citrus, ashy edge. Moderate sweetness and light bitterness. Moderate body, quite watery and fizzy. Starts okay but fades.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Oct 2022 at 13:59


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottled. A brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes malt and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2019 at 10:59


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

At a tasting, thanks Dudu, small stable creamy bubbly head, clear quite dark brown color, light aroma and flavor of dark bread and chocolate, light bitterness, hints of ash quite dry. Fair and drinkable.

Tried on 14 Sep 2017 at 01:40


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks tomer. Deep amber-brown. Malt, caramel, toast, candy, a bit of fruitiness, sweetish, bitterish finish, medium-bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2017 at 11:48


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle at the Doubletree Hotel, Melbourne. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin off white head. The aroma is caramel malt, nutty, light sweet fruit. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter with a crisp, fruity, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 25 May 2017 at 04:31


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Ostatni australijczyk z lodowki ;) i pechowy, bo niby jest karmel, jakies ciemne owoce, costam jeszcze... Slodkie... Ale calosciowo nijako

Tried at Powiśle on 04 Jun 2016 at 09:02