The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Microbrewery in Farmville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2004
Closed in 2025
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Description
Welcome to The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
We are a small packaging microbrewery located in Farmville, North Carolina. We sold our first beer in August of 2004. We specialize in beautiful, delicious, full flavored dark beers. When we brew, we’re happy and we dance. During fermentation, we sing softly to the yeast. Please try our beer and enjoy a taste of contentment!
We are a small packaging microbrewery located in Farmville, North Carolina. We sold our first beer in August of 2004. We specialize in beautiful, delicious, full flavored dark beers. When we brew, we’re happy and we dance. During fermentation, we sing softly to the yeast. Please try our beer and enjoy a taste of contentment!
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Ernest, damn crazy mutations between animals with their hats. Poured into a small goblet La Trappe goblet glass. Let it warm for about 20 minutes after the fridge. Pours black with a small brown head that quickly dissipates into an almost nothing lacing. Aroma is very present, light chocolate, good smokiness (thats what really wins me over), slight roastiness. There is a slighty fishiness that I usually see in wheat coming through that is a turn off to me. The description is right on with the velvety aspect on the mouthfeel. Nice low carbonation with a thick mouthfeel, not syrupy but velvety. Nice roast, chocolate, smokey taste. Leaves a heavy roast aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2006
at 23:09
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to Suttree. Deep opaque brown body with reddish highlights. Rich, complex aroma of burnt caramels, roasted malt, sour woody notes, licorice, and soy. Oily, smooth body revealing layers of chocolate, toffee, toasted marshmallow, soy, and even prune. Salty, leathery palate. Absolutely perfect finish on the back of the tongue, where burnt residual sugars and leathery notes linger long after the sip, just out of reach of the full array of tastebuds. This could be improved, still, by going easier on the carbonation...damn, Duck-Rabbit beers are carbonated. An excellent beer all around.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2006
at 18:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to Suttree. Translucent deep brown body with reddish highlights, puffy light tan head. Aroma of coffee and licorice, with roasted malts and lactose sugars also prominent. Sharp, biting mouthfeel, the body primarily showing characteristics of roasted malt, coffee, and light sweetness imparted by the lactose. Overcarbonated and disappointingly bland.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2006
at 18:38
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Suttree. Deep opaque brown body, medium tan-ochre head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, licorice, and dark burnt sugars. Bitter body with strong coffee and roasted malts, the primary characteristic being sharp, distracting carbonation. A dry porter, a bit thin-bodied, but pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2006
at 18:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle in a trade from Ernest, thank you. Well I got to give themk credit for their labels, simple yet intersting enough to look at. I juts cant tell if its a Scottish rabbit or Duck, damn these pranksters. Just got the package from Ernest, pulled it out and just started drinking it about 30 minutes since being home. I let the fact that the packege spent all day outside my door serve as the fridge. Pours dark rown with a small white head that soon fades away. Aroma is good Scotch Ale, very strong, peaty, sweat malt, slight caramel. But right up the ale of a good Scotch. Taste is similar, a bit more caramel coming out, the Scottish booziness is there. Earthy, wet forrest, all around. Some chocolate. Flavors meld pretty well. A bit light on body for me. Mouthfeel defeinitely has a prickly feel, not comfortable for a Scotch Ale. Low bitterness, finish is all Scotch Ale at the tail end with malty sweetness. No sense of hops at all, nice job on a style that is often hard to master.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2006
at 19:36
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown on 01/19/2010. Dark black body with a medium creamy light brown head. Sweet roast and chocolate aroma with a touch of coffee. Sweet roast and chocolate flavor with a bit of bitterness lingering behind. Medium body with moderate carbonation. 7/5/8/4/16 - 4.1 12/10/2006 - Thanks to Kinz for bringing this to the 4th Richmond Gathering. Dark black body with a small brown head. Sweet fruit and caramel aroma. Sweet fruit, caramel, chocolate and roasted malt flavors. 9/5/9/4/17 - 4.4
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2006
at 14:20
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
There is only so much you can do with a brown ale and these guys took a good stab at it. It has lots of roasted nuts in the aroma. The beere is very dark brown and well carbonated with a thick head. Flavor is malt and definitely bitter with more nuts. Well hopped. Thanks Suttree.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Dec 2006
at 22:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Thanks to Suttree for this bottle. It doesn’t have the depth of the baltic porter, but the same heavy palate is there. Aroma much like an oatmeal stout. Flavor has light smoke and rare roast beef as well as popcorn. Black and oily appearance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2006
at 12:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled, thanks Immy! Very black, minimal brown head. Aroma of coffee and plums. Medium sweet with concentrated flavour of toffee, coffee, citrus and tar. The mouthfeel is compact, and the flavours are really intense and concentrated. I find notes of chocoalte pudding and blackberries. salty finish. More refined than the traditional rather crude examples of the style. Well worth it’s high rating!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2006
at 10:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark amber colour with an off-white head. Sweet malty yeasty aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweet malty yeasty, caramel flavor with hints of dark fruits. Warming dry malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2006
at 12:29