The Duck-Rabbit Bee Heavy

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

Date: February 06, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Footset Foreplay Friday
Appearance: clear amber
Aroma: sweet honey aroma with a winey character
Flavor: sweet honey flavor, lots of dark fruity character
Overall: an excellent combination between the scotch ale and the honey
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***+/4

Bottle shared by ryan and matt. thanks boys. this is by far the best braggot so far. The honey is very noticeable and full in flavor. Sweet and warm without being too hot and alcoholic like many of this style. rich caramel, mild peat, nice complexity overall.

Very nice. Aroma is full of all things dark; toffee, candy, malt, honey, with a hint of chocolate and maybe a touch of smoke. Palate is nice and thick, with the honey really coming out. Flavor is nice and balanced, smoke, honey, malt, candy. Duck Rabbit does it again.

Thanks to Facto and Humpty for sharing. Pours a sharp translucent copper. No head. the nose is rich, caramel, malty, honey, alcohol. Flavor is nice and rich, caramel, malty, sweet, alcohol, bready, toffee. Very tasty braggot. Can’t wait till the Baltic Porter comes out.

Generously shared by Facto and Frumpty at the Pre-Sex madness. The nose is surprisingly funky, almost as if it were mainlining the peat and smoke of the regular WH. Not that it comes at the expense of the richly sweet flavors of honey and deep toffee, because they’re there in abundance. As David said, this is probably the best of the braggots.

Hazy amber pour with a fine thin head. Aroma of honey, oak, and caramel. Similar flavor. This braggot seems to be my favorite from D/R as this is more balanced and complex.