The Duck-Rabbit Barleywine

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

Bottled. A dark amber beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma is powerful with a weird combination of spices and fruit. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of fruit and light notes of alcohol, with a dry bitter finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

(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

Date: December 25, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
Vintage: 2006
Appearance: clear dark amber, wispy beige head, trace of lace
Aroma: sweet fruity malt aroma with light floral hops and a trace of alcohol
Flavor: rich malty and bitter flavor, touch of fruit character
Overall: maybe it’s chinoook that I don’t like?

Date: January 22, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: blind tasting
Vintage: 2006
Score: 2.9
Appearance: ruby red, frothy white head that stirs up nicely to produce some streaks of lace
Aroma: fruity aroma with lots of fusel alcohols
Flavor: lots of bitter hop flavor almost to the point of being astrengent but the caramel sweetness comes to save it

Date: February 01, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2006
picking up a bit of unwanted tartness

Date: November 30, 2007
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2006
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma with earthy hops
Flavor: rich caramel malt flavor, nice earthy hops, touch of alcohol, lasting sweet fruity caramel malt sweetness

Date: January 24, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Vintage: 2006
Score: 3.3 to 3.6
Appearance: gusher
Aroma: fruityness coming out in the sweet caramel aroma, fleeting hint of astrengency
Flavor: sweet fruity flavor is ripening nicely, earthy hops receeding but still providing the needed balance
Overall: aging nicely

Date: March 07, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: blind tasting
Vintage: 2006
Score: 3.1
Appearance: hazy dark red, fin

Hazy red to dark amber color; nice creamy head and lace. Powerful aroma, malty and sweet, with a touch of apples. Very sweet flavor, malty, with a touch of wood (at least bringing in some light astringency to counterbalance). A bit off track, but very enjoyable for me.

(12oz bottle, thanks wilkie) Crystal clear copper body with small beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, cherry, mango, caramel. Taste is sweet, cherry, peach, toffee, earthy, some alcohol warming. Sticky medium-full body. Unusual, but not sure I fully embrace what they do here.

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) Pours a clear amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of cherry, butterscotch, apple, mango, and caramel. Flavor of cherry, caramel malt, peach, light citrus, toasted malt, and toffee with slight metallic in the finish.

12oz bottle shared courtesy of jasonmech77. Bottle labeled BB 12 ’07. Poured a medium amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of citrus, orange peels, light alcohol, spicey and spruce. Tastss on the spicey side with caramel, sugary sweet, citrus, and had a medium alcohol burn in the finish.