The Duck-Rabbit Barleywine

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

This barley wine pours a medium orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is caramel, sweet and fruity. A medium bodied barley wine. The malts are fruity and caramel, very sweet. The hops are floral. Very sweet barley, but still mostly balanced. Hides the 11% alcohol very well. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is sweet with a touch of alcohol bite.

Bottle, about a year old (best by 12/2007). Huge, ridiculous, outrageous gusher. Lost over half the bottle. Gimme a break. Aroma is thin, vineous. Old sweet, sweaty flavor, remnants of hops and carboardy characteristics. Overaged, for sure.

Obtained from a trade with elmatador00. Pours an opaque amber with a creamy beige head that fades to a spotty film. Sweet and vinous nose with caramel, toffee, brown sugar, nuts and pitted fruit. The flavour is sugary sweet with nuts, port-like butterscotch and alfalfa notes, fruity, leafy hops, fig and plenty of caramel. There are definitely notes of oxidation, but it does not come off as astringent. Too sweet for my taste. The mouthfeel is full and sticky with well-matched tingly carbonation. Nice warming in the cockles.

Bottle from lb4lb. Rich aroma of sweet caramel malt, dough, hops and a hint of alcohol. Pours full, rich amber with a big, creamy off-white head that lasts forever. Quite sweet. In fact, this is one hell of a sweet barleywine. Needs some more hops to balance. Maple syrup, melted caramel with the faintest hint of hops. Big and rich on the palate. Finishes with a blast of alcohol hotness and some needed hoppy dryness. Thanks Deniz!

Nut and ripe fruit laden nose with a touch of astringency. Big and full on the palate with mild oxidation and iso-valeric characters. Touch of diacetyl at mid-palate leads to much dark fruit at the finish.

Bottle. A redish coloured beer with a huge beige head. The aroma and taste is of caramel malt, fruits and bread. Medium to full body with a sweet finish, a bit to sweet and sugarish.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of boboski. Clear, dark, amber golden with a creamy, beige head leaving some lacework. Fat aroma of caramel and aroma hops. Quite full-bodied, somewhat sticky sugar and caramel accents. Some floral accents and some bitterness in the finish. Not very balanced. 171107

01 Nov 07, BW Tasting. 12oz bottle. Reddish hue, huge light tan head. Aroma of an IIPA. Big residual sugary sweetness. Super Sweet. Its all sugar. Needs age...but this beer is just too filtered. No bottle conditioning?? Super sweet.