The Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout

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

GABF. Sweet aromas. Some chocolate flavors, but just a bit watery on the finish. I felt like I had missed something. So I tried it again. Still wasn’t there.

Bottle. Poured thin, didn’t give an impression of a stout. Creamy, yes, but with an utterly sour taste. Judging by the other reviews, I should try it again... perhaps it was a bad experience.

Bit of a tangy stout. Creamy Chocolate and hops.. As one reviewer said, a bit of a sour taste.

Aroma is fantastic, the best I’ve found among milk stouts. Smells strongly of nuttiness, milk, chocolate, slight coffee presence. Almost tastes like carbonated chocolate milk. A departure from the stouts I would normally drink, but worth the trip. This one came as a surprise, bought a case of it for after-dinner consumption.

Pours a deep brown, almost black, with ruby edges an a dense tan head. Nose is of mocha coffee, milk chocolate, raisins, and gives the impression of malted milk balls. The flavour is chocolately, roasted malt with an initial lactic tang and an alcoholic, cherry-like fruity finish. There is a woody, bitter, but almost sour, hop finish. Creamy yet tingly mouthfeel with a lingering roasty, yet sour aftertaste that is a little too alcoholic.

Bottle from Decaturstevo - thanks! Dark brown, a hint of ruby shines through. Solid tan head. Nose is alcohol, cocoa, some very dark toffee notes, something vaguely spicy. Flavor is cocoa, that spicing, chocolate covered cherries. Slight tingle (alc? hops?) at the finish where burnt malt comes into play. More of that dark toffee too. Solid and a style I don’t typically encounter.

Big lactic nose with mild tobacco and smoke. Very lactic up front with a very roasted and mildly chalky palate. Lingering roasted finish.

This beer had an extremely thin presence and was super carbonated. The flavor had a terrible funk to it took a few sips to get used to, but I did make it though it. Not my favorite.