The Duck-Rabbit Porter

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

Near black pour with a nice looking, creamy tan head. Roasted coffee aroma. Pretty heavy carbonation. Chocolate and coffee dominate the taste with a very bitter, smokey finish. Pretty solid porter.

Opaque black with a medium-sized, lasting brown sugar head. Aroma is mild coffee with hints of smoke, sugar and pepper. Flavor is initially malt chocolate sweet, then some smoke and slight hop tingle. Smoky, dry fruit and chocolate aftertaste. Palate is medium and a little tingle to it. Nice.

Draught at the Half Barrel In Knoxville. Had a nice dark black color with a thin brown head. The flavor of the roasted coffee and chocolate hits you followed by fruit undertones that gives it a sweet finish. Very Good. Im looking forward to trying their other brews.

On tap at The Federal. Dark and stouty looking with a light tan head, it’s hard to call this a porter! The nose is cream with subtle sweet malty roast. Well balanced, maybe some acidity. Smooth and creamy on the pallate with average carbonation, rather mouthfilling. The flavor surely doesn’t disappoint. Creamy rich, slightly roasted and rather sweet malt. Slight acid from the roast and/or alcohol, floral hops. Creamy finish, wth a sharp dry aftertaste. A real treat, I wish I could get it locally!

Pours a deep dark brown color with a light brown head. Aroma is of coffee, roasted malts, and a hint of fruit. Flavor is of chocolate, roasted malts, a hint of coffee with a long dry finish.

Pours an opaque blackish brown with a very thin beige head. Rpasted malt aroma. Flavor is nice and malty wit ha semi-sweet chocolate flavor. Nice, but not extraordinary.

Bottle from bleacherbum. Thanks! Pours a blackish brown with a thin tan head. Chocolate, coffee and vanilla aroma. Taste of sweet coffee and chocolate.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 3     Light Brown(1)->Pitch Black(5) : 3     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 2
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 3   Off-White(1)->Dark Brown(5) : 3   Lasting: 1   Lacing : XX   Nitro : XX
Aroma:
Intensity : 2  
Yeast : XX   Bread : XX   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : XX   Ink : XX   Tar : XX   Olives : XX   DMS : XX
Malt : 4   Biscuity : XX   Burnt Toast : 3   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Pumpernickel : 4   Cereals : XX   Coffee : 4   Dark Chocolate : 3   Vanilla : XX   Grapes : 2   Blackberries : 3   Cherries : XX
Hops : 2   Noble(1)->American(5) : XX   Leafy : XX   Floral : XX   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX
Notes :   Earth : XX   Wood : XX   Mint : XX   Smoke : XX   Soy : 2   Bourbon : XX   Anise : 3
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Sourness : 2   Lactic : 3   Bitterness : XX   Complex : 2   Length : 3
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 4   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 3   Clean : 3   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : XX   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Certainly more agreeable and complex than the sweet stout with its casual fruity notes and better integrated roastiness.