The Duck-Rabbit Amber Ale

Brewed by The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Farmville, North Carolina USA

Cherry and grass aroma. I detect a bit of yeast as well. Very clear brown pour with a medium yellow head. Taste is fairly strong with cherry and banana. Nothing much is left on the palate. Somewhat distinctive.

Date: 09/23/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Asheville

clear amber, whispy beige head, nice sweet carmel aroma, nice malt flavor with some carmel sweetness that is balanced by a touch of hops, nice bitter finish

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Picked up a bottle from Chips in OBX. Great amber almost pink color. Certainly a strange amber for me and I can’t put a finger on why. I think it was the nutty malts that let me down. The hop aroma was flowery but it didn’t make up for the rest. Duck-Rabbit is much better at the darker selections.

Amber color with an off-white head that doesn’t retain very well and leaves very little lacing. Smell is of dark fruits, caramel, and toffee. Taste begins with a roasted nut flavor that leads to a cherry flavor and a toffee-like finish. Medium bodied and medium carbonation. Finishes up to be an OK beer, but I can’t see myself seeking this one out much.

Gets a plus one because we did not have a bottle opener so we open it with a stapler. nuts, earthy, banana, red, hazy, tan foam, lightly bitter, salty, medium body, creamy, average carbonation, long finish, Not sure of the price due to a gift, so assuming it is expensive - it kinda sucks. Can’t wait to get to the next beer!!!

Poured from bottle. Nice, sweet malt aroma. Dark amber with very rugged tan head. Odd, kinda herbal aspect to the flavor along with the malt. Also a burnt wood character in there. Watery feel to it as well. Subtle malt aftertaste to it. Finished better than it started. A strange, but good choice.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle via trade with Frumpy. This is the lightest of the dark Duck-Rabbit beers. Pours a clear caramel amber brew with a thick off-white head that dissolves to a ring with good lacing. Aroma of caramel malt, sweet apple/pear combo fruit with some flowery hops. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonation with flavors of sweet pears, caramel malt with a dry bitter finish. After taste is pleseant with a dry nutty malt flavor.

Bottle Dark amber copper pour with good sized big bubbled head. A bit of apple and hop in the aroma. Same with flavor with a higher concentration of apple and some nut. Decent session, but it’s still lacking.