The Duck-Rabbit Barleywine

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

Bottle. Pours a copper color with an off white head. Aroma of malts. Flavor of toffee and malts with a bitter finish.

Pours a darker amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of caramel malts, dark fruits, and a little alcohol. Flavor is sweet with the caramel malts, dark fruits, and toffee. Finishes with some alcohol warming and a slight bitterness.

bottle via trade, sampled 4/7/07. Pours a clear dark golden amber color with a ridiculous amount of big chunky off white head of a gentle pour; overcarbonated? Looks like it. Smells of dark fruit, phenols, toasted grains. Big earthy aroma. Taste starts and stops with an unpleasant cloying sweetness. Thin, grainy, sticky sweet fruit flavor. Palate also suffers... slick, oily, and sticky, with plenty of residula sweetness on the finish. No improvement with warming. Disappointing across the board.

Poured amber with a white head. Aroma of candy. Holy sweetness. Lots of sweet malt and fruit.

Bottle Pours out a amber with some red highs topped with a sand head. Aroma of sweetness all over the place, plenty of rich caramel malts. Tast was the same lots of sweet malts, brown sugar and even some fruit. Very nice.

’09 bottle poured into a snifter... Duck Rabbit has some really good beers... and this is one of them. This English Barley Wine is highly underrated... it is very dynamic and brings some flavors that aren’t typically found in a barley wine... this pours a beautiful red with a half inch off white head. there is quite a lot going on in the aroma... some sweet malts, banana, tart cherries, and a touch of bubblegum. medium body, almost chewy, with caramel, dark fruits, along with more banana, some lingering bitterness up front and a touch of sourness throughout. the finish brings some alcohol forward with a touch of spice and mild bitterness. overall I really enjoyed this one.... such a solid little brewery in the middle of nowhere NC.

Bottle procured at Chucks in Chagrin. Oh lord. That is the barely wine aroma I love. Rich, full, and dear god complex. Smells of caramel, figs, dried berries, old wet natural wood and a touch of citrus. Smells like a notched-up version of Old Horizontal, which is about the best compliment I could ever give a beer. Flavor follows right behind. It has all the full, rich flavor. Its loaded with caramel malt flavor, rich sugary woody flavors and a nice hopy citrus taste at the end. The flavor of this just builds and builds. I am tasting a little bit of honey and fig, as well as some whiskey-like notes well after a sip. This is all too wonderful, full and flavorful, very very flavorful. But honestly, its has just a little too much going on to be perfect. Oh yeah, it sure does look pretty: a deep dark red body with just a thin lacing of foam on top.

Bottle via trade with Frumpy Dumpty. Thanks Ryan! I have had this in the cellar for a few months and it did very well. Pours a dark brown color with an average size tan head with exceptional lacing on the glass. Aroma of brown sugar, malt, dark fruit, and hops.Taste is semi sweet with a little hop kick. Flavors of dates, molasses, caramel malt and hops. Has a nice smooth lasting finish.