Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle in a trade from Degarth. Thanks man! It’s a sad state of affairs when I have to get a beer from Florida that is brewed in a state that is 3 hours away. Pours a reddish chocolate brown with a one finger head. Very strong and complex aroma of rum, chocolate, cola and brown sugar. Strong caramel flavor rounded out by a bit of yeasty sourness. Nice texture. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle pours crystal clear amber with thin tan head. Full aroma of dark fruity esters of dates, prunes and bright deep red cherry candy. Behind the fruitiness I get caramel and faint earthiness. The taste is much like the aroma with an initial bolt of dark fruitiness from prunes, ripe cherries, dates and raisins. Midway sweet caramel surfaces along with some faint earthiness. Into the finish the dark fruity esters return with a mild pepper quality. A little too much with the dark fruity esters for the style. Still very enjoyable.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Milk Stout from The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle pours dark dark brown with amber edges and thin light brown head. Looks a bit like a Porter. First whiff contains a certain milk quality although the dominant aroma is medium to well roasted malts. I also get some mild amounts of chocolate, caramel and a faint burnt maltiness. The taste reveals much more burnt maltiness than the nose. To go along with the charredness are notes like lactose in an ample quantity, mild malt astringency and some chocolate malts. Then midway a sweet maltiness surfaces before roasty maltiness carries the experience into the after taste where it is met by more burnt malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
12 oz. bottle courtesy of Zinister. 2007 vintage. Pour is deep black with a 1/2 inch deep tan head. Head fades quickly to just a small swirl on top of the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, tobacco and some old worn leather. Taste is a really nice blend of the roasted malt with smoke and tobacco. Some licorice and soy in the taste as well. Really quite a bit going on in this one. The finish has the acidic bite that I love in an Imperial / Baltic porter. Nice full palate. Integrates the alcohol really well. I had been a bit underwhelmed by the regular Duck Rabbit line up, but this is really good. Thanks for holding one of these back for me Mike.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Brown Ale from The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours rather explosively, but under a semblance of control, with a very tall light brown head, excellent clear deep amber body with infrared edges and spotty lacing. The aroma is more than adequate for a brown with inviting nuttiness, roastiness and burnt toast. The taste is very similar with tasty medium to high roasted malts running along with nuttiness and an undercurrent of mild malt astringency. It leaves a nice roasty – toasty – malty taste behind into the after taste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Courtesy of Degarth. Pours deep dark with dark brown edges and tan foam ring of foam. The aroma is a bit of roasty malts, bigger burnt malts follow shortly after along with chocolate malts, coffee grounds and a mild earthiness. Really nice aroma but missing the dark fruity esters that are a typical contributor to the Baltic Porter style. The taste is thick and rich and velvety. I get roasty malts, burnt malts, coffee and chocolate malts that seem very much like an Imperial Stout. There is a sweetness that runs underneath all the roasty malt notes. Very enjoyable but misses the style in flavor and aroma.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz Bottle Brougth back from NC thanks to a good beer mule. Pours out a dark clear brown topped with a sandy head. A nice sweet aroma of bitter chocolate and a little smoke. Tast of light sweetness some good roast malt. Not as thick as I was thinking it would have been. Overall pretty tasty.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Copper colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, fruit, hop. . Flavour is sweet, alcohol, hop, malt, sugar. nice beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, thx to the_epeeist. It pours a dark golden to copper body, with a lovely, dense, off-white head. It has a malty-sweet nose with a fruity hoppyness, but it’s not as pronounced as I could wish for. The flavor is sweet and malty as well, with a fruityness from the hops, but maybe a bit low on hops, even though I tend to like the barley wines on the sweet and malty side. Full body, maybe a bit sticky in the mouth. The bitterness in this beer is most evident in the long finish. Having this after Victory Old Horizontal was a little down-trip, and maybe not fair to the beer, but it’s far from being bad though. Very far. (071123)
jcr (3164) reviewed Milk Stout from The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 15
Bottle. The sweet milk sugar is the first thing I noticed when I took a whiff of this stout. Though the sweet side dominates, it is nicely balanced with bitter and stout dryness. The pour reveals a dark but not opaque brown/black body. The head is average sized and a fizzy light brown. The aroma is sweet with molasses and milk chocolate. Some roasted malts and grain follow, along with vanilla and a faint scent of coffee. The flavor is moderately sweet, but finishes moderately bitter and dry. Medium body, lively carbonation. The texture is quite smooth. Enjoyable.