The Duck-Rabbit Barleywine

Brewed by The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Style: Barley Wine
Farmville, North Carolina USA

This poured a darker brown color with an off white head. Aroma was piney hops, lots of sweet malts, dark fruit. Flavor was hops upfront, followed by a thick chewy malt presence, some sppices, dark fruit in there as well.

Bottle from City Beverage in Winston-Salem. Cloudy dark brown color with a beige head. Aroma is caramel malt, citrusy hops, and earth. Flavor is sweet with lots of caramel malt, toffee, hint of dark fruits, earth, and piney/grapefruity hops. Palate nice and fairly full, a little chewy. Average to above-average for the style.

June ’09....Ruddy brown..just a skimming of foam....nothin’ but malts...strong malts on the nose...Frank smells a burnt pound cake...I only smell the sweetness of it....deep full and pungent with hop undertones...thick syrupy cereal sweet...alcohol abundant...bitter sweet vanilla--not too shabby...its simple and a little cakey tasting...light lacing--just dandy, but I could use more dimension in this bottle

Poured a clear light brown with a red tint and a 3-fingered head. There was a big hop-citrus aroma. The flavor was big, malty and sweet, almost cloying but a good hop bitterness as well. The palate was thick and chewy. I thought this is a huge beer that drinks big, good but in moderation. The beer presents well, also.

12 oz. bottle from Total Wine in Raleigh. Dark orange pour with an off-white head. Strong grapefruity hop aroma balanced with a nice malty sweetness. Very nice. Very good flavor with the grapefruit hoppiness, some pine, some grass, toffee, and caramel sweetness. The alcohol is noticeable but well-balanced. This is far better than I expected and I think it is very underrated.

12 oz bottle courtesy of a GAManiac trade. My last of the Duck Rabbit journey. Thanks, Grant! Pours a nice dark copper, good red with light haze, a decent tannish beige head that sticks around small, laces well. Aroma are a nice toffee and caramel malt base, floral hops come in well with cherry dominant dark fruit elements, biscuits, and a nice bready quality. Initial is malty, not as heavy as anticipated, good caramel, toffee, biscuit, and toasted malts. Dark fruits show strong raisin, no real presence of cherry as earlier noted. Florals and bitterness come in fuller in the backend, firm bitterness balances quite well on the finish, lingering sweetness but the bitterness and a bit of hot boozy burn is most dominant in the finish. The malt is flavor forward up front, a bit lingering as the finish moves quite to the opposite end of the spectrum. I personally liked this Barleywine because it was a bit lighter bodied, not holding me down with a syrupy sweet body but still packing good flavor. Cheers!

Opaque reddish brown with a cm of white head. Aroma is sweet and citrusy with a bit of caramel, and rather IIPA-esque. Taste is as it smells with a cloying medicinal edge, and a grapefruity finish. $4/12oz

’07. Sweet aroma, caramel and sugar candy. Flavor is undeveloped sweetness with alcohol. Nothing special