Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Secret Santa: Poured a medium black color stout with a nice foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt with some dark chocolate notes. Taste is a mix between slightly bitter roasted malt with some dark chocolate. Body is tad too light for the style but creamy texture was well enjoyed. Very well done overall and something I wouldn’t mind having again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Bottle Chris_o Shindig. It’s good. A good intense imperial stout. Oily. Espresso coffee. Considering the amount I had drunk and the lateness of the hour and the number of impy stouts we had, this one still stood out.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Porter from The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
This beer came to me in my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a black color with a very large dark brown head. The aroma was dry, roasty and had a hint of floral hops. The flavor was dry, very roasty and malty with a hint of smoke and expresso and moderate floral hops. The finish was long and dry. The mouthfeel was almost gritty.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This beer came to me in my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant orange-bronze color with a huge orange-tan head. The aroma was sour, tangy and slightly vegetal with a hint of roasty malts and chocolate. The flavor was bitter, roasty, nutty and slightly vegetal with a dry chocolate and coffee undertone. The finish was long, bitter, dry and very roasty. The flavor profile was more like a porter really.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, best before 3/2007 consumed on 6/2/07
I actually also drank another bottle of it that was within its best before date, but I actually enjoyed this one more….go figure.
This style really seems to mesh with Duck Rabbit. Their mashing and and possibly malt choice seems to lead to a higher amount of breadiness and dryness on the finish, though all the beers are quite sticky-sweet up front. Though I’ve also had issues with a fair amount of wateriness/thinning of their beers, this one was, fortunately, quite free from that problem. Still poured a large, light-tan head atop a burgundy-tinted mahogany body, medium to medium-high clarity, though filtered it is. Lacing and retention are moderate.
Sweet prunes and thick nougat mixed with rich caramel and toffee provide a perfect opening note. Bits of bittersweet, dark fruits pop up, adding livliness and complexity, while walnuts and brown sugar keep things rich through the middle, ending on a softer aroma of vanilla and drier caramel. A slight hint of coffee is perceptible and though odd for the style, it adds more complexity and seems welcome. Medium to medium high strength of aroma with no flaws or alcohol noted.
Rich, well-malted flavor and mouthfeel is perhaps a bit underattenuated for my liking, but pretty spot-on for the style, with breadines, nuttiness and a strong vinousness all balancing on the finish, though the brown sugar and rich maple-toffee notes probably win out in the end. Looks like letting this one age for the number of months it did helped dry it out, because I really didnt get the painful sweetness others report, and I’m quite sensitive to too much sweetness. Slight undertones of woodsmoke and coffee, with brilliant tinges of acidic plums/prunes and tart berries to brighten things. Low, but not too low, is the carbonation, further accenting the silky-rich maltiness. No flaws/alcohol noted. Nice stuff....
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of madsberg. Clear, chestnut brown with an off-white head. Sweetish, lightly burned malt aroma. Medium body, roasted, lightly burned malt accents and then this hard to describe lacto edge. The finish is dry. 310507
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of madsberg. Clear, amber golden with an off-white head. Fat, sweetish, burned caramel in the nose. Quite full-bodied with sweetish, burned caramel flavours and lots of fruity accents. Some vanilla in there too. Dry and hoppy finish. 310507
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a dark red with a white soapy head. Aroma is sugar sweet with some sweet malts. Flavor is mostly roasted malts and some caramel. No hops are present. An ok rep of a MEH style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a jet black with a average tan head. Aroma is a nice mix of chocolate and roasted malts. Flavor is decent with some milk chocolate and a roasted oat. Leaves a woody after taste on the tounge. Pretty decent attempt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Moejuck: Poured a pitch-black color porter with a medium size foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of coffee and roasted malt is dominant and enjoyable. Taste is dominated by dry coffee notes as well as some light bitter roasted malt. I was expecting more chocolate notes then I could detect and the beer was a bit more dry then expected. Body was quite full with some medium carbonation and no alcohol was discernable. Overall, while this was a very good beer I thought it was slightly too dry for the style and I can’t figure out why this rated so high but again I am probably not the biggest fan of the style to begin with.