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The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter

The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter

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A Baltic Porter brewed by
The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery

Farmville, North Carolina USA

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4354.12/5.04.11/5.09%100English pint, Stem glass, Tulip P  Stats

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The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter is deep, rich and velvety soft. A full blooded roasty character is balanced by complex alcohol notes. Strong (9% alcohol by volume) yet unfailingly subtle, this special brew warrants sipping and savoring.

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 cathcacr (519), Portland, Oregon, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Oct 8, 2007    Updated: Oct 21, 2007
Upped on re-taste to a 5.0; head/appearance produced this time lived up to the rest.. My favorite example of my favorite style, and it just doesn’t get any tastier than this. Why aren’t more beers out there made as tasty as this? I’d pay good money for it. So . . . why?

Rating #400! Courtesy the man, kenb, 10/7/07. Aged 1 year. I’m rating conservatively because I don’t want to be a fanboy right off the bat. But it’s right up there with the best, the few other 5’s I’ve ever had. Aroma is AWESOME, and a good indicator of what’s to come. Heavy on the chocolate-covered cherry-or-raisin, in both aroma and palate. Best aroma ever, period. Goes down smoother ’n’ you know what. The only thing I didn’t give a top component grade for was appearance, I believe because it didn’t generate large and foamy head. We did some nitro’ing and fixed that issue, but I’m just going on its "official" presentation. I did a 19/20 on overall, but I’m gonna bump that up to a 20 and put this in sole possession of the 4.9 placement in my ratings list. Thanks to the MAN, kenb, I’ll get subsequent tastings and see how this fares on the repeat. The bottle went down much too quickly to savor in full, this is so damn drinkable.


 OldRaspy (292), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Oct 20, 2006  
Thanks goes out to Immy for this outstanding brew. Poured from a 12oz bottle black with a small brown head that faded into a ring of lacing. Aroma was roasted malts, raisins, a bit of smokiness and a bitter chocolate. Flavor was roasted malt and the chocolate was a semi-sweet chocolate. The body was smooth and creamy. It finished dry on the tounge.


 Immy (1583), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/519/20
Oct 12, 2006  
12 oz bottle from JCB. Thanks Jason! Deep deep brown - not quite black - with a thick hot chocolate colored head that reduces to a dense film. Roasty malt and dark chocolate nose, earthy, an odd fruity note. Flavor is semisweet chocolate, a little roasty coffee, and sweet malt that penetrates the deep parts of the mouth. While damn tasty, the star here is the body - not quite creamy, but the consistancy of half-n-half; dense, but not too thick. Smooth as wet ice on ice. Mildly dry chalkiness in the center of the tongue in the finish, while the sweet malt flavors tickle the sides of your tongue. Simply awesome. It simply does not get all that better than this.


 ross (1559), charlotte, North Carolina, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/519/20
Sep 25, 2006    Updated: Sep 28, 2006
12 oz bottle. Got some at peabodys today. Mega thanks to Brandon for saving me a couple of cases. I was unable to get it in charlotte yet because my regular guy was out of town until this week. Man it was wroth the wait. Pours out very dark with a big brown head on it. Smell is heavy on the roasted malts and coffee with some chocolate added in. Taste is awesome. Smooth, rich, like eating a chocolate filled coffee bar. There is no alcohol even noted in this beer. The best baltic porter I have ever had, hands down, and easily the best brewed beer that NC has ever seen. This is a fuckin awesome porter. 9/5/10/5/18
man, im drinking another bottle of this right now, and i really have to give it another 10th of a point on the overall, it is really really good. easily in my top 10 most favorite beers.


 tobias (151), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/105/519/20
Sep 17, 2006  
12 oz bottle: pours anthracite black with a beautiful dark khaki head. my god the aroma is amazing. the intilal aroma is coffee, sweet creamy chocolatey rich mocha coffee, not over powering. very sensual.hints of carramel vanilla and dark fruit peek though. flavors of of coffee and mocha. vanilla dark fruit caramel, beautiful. silky smooth in the mouth. carbonation is perfect. its very hard to believe this beer is 9 percent abv, very well hidden. all i can say is wow. duck rabbit has outdone itself. i had this on draft about a month ago at the saucer and was like this its pretty good but now as i sit here savoring it fropm the bottle i realize that it is more than pretty good, its amazing.




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