The Duck-Rabbit Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale

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

12oz bottle from a trade with TURDFERGUSON. Dark amber pour, off white head. Almost tastes like a barley wine, very good beer.

Very close to a barleywine for me, just a little lighter. Sweet, tastes like fig, with a nice sticky palate. The dry finish is a nice touch. An enjoyable brew. These Duck Rabbit seasonals are pretty solid. Well done.

reddish caramel colored beer with no head and decent lacing. sweet, cherry robotussin, medicinal aroma. flavor is again medicinal and sweet but with some nuts and caramel and a big alcohol presence. syrupy-sticky thick palate. gets better as it warms but unfortunately it’s just too boozy right now. reminds me of liquor.

The latest seasonal offering from this uncapped brewery (thanks Pop the Cap) is a Scotch Ale, which I picked up at Bullock’s in Marietta. The beer didn’t look like much, as the body was reddish brown, and the head was small, and a little fizzy. The smell was nice and malty,evoking raisins, toffee, and dates. The taste was quite sweet, as is the norm for the style, with the sugary and chewy body reminding me of cake. The dense beer caressed and coddled my tongue and throat, as it went down. The finish was oddly dry and had a earthy feel to it. This was another good seasonal from the Tar Heel State.

Pours a murky dark brown with almost no head or lacing. Aromas of toffee, light peat, caramel. Flavors of toffee, peat, caramel, and some over ripe fruits in the finish. A good amount of booze for being only 8% too. Big body, creamy, and warming.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with kp. Pours a dark brown into my thistle glass with a thin tan head that lasted through the first sip and left no lace. Very aromatic with lots of peated malt, toffee, and some molasses. The flavor is again earthy peated malt and toffee, but is also accompanied by a sweet flavor that is way over the top. It is not so much sugar sweetness as it is an overripe/rotting fruit kind of sweetness. Some alcohol in the finish. I wanted to love this beer, but the sweetness was too much for me.

Thanks to Niel Yandow for this taster--Poured a rich hardy deep chestnut-brown body with a healthy tan head. Bold toffee-malty-sweet robust nose. Lots of ingredients. Some molasses, smoked peat, caramel and toffee lingered on the tongue. A bit boozy and pronounced in aftertaste. Great quaffing beer. Loved it!

Bottle courtesy of wagenvolks. Poured into a snifter. Dark brown but not opaque. Reddish highlights with light. Modest tan head with little retention or lacing. Aromas of toffee/molasses, peat, and overripe dark fruits. Some perfumey alcohol as well. Sweet flavor profile, with molasses and caramel dominating the front of the palate. This quickly washes into a medicinal finish that’s equal parts licorice, peat, and cough syrup. This beer is surprisingly thin on the palate. Not really enough richness to hold up the flavors. Carbonation is rather high, finish is evaporatively short with an astringent quality. There’s a pleasant warming sensation in the chest as well.