The Duck-Rabbit Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale

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

Bottle via somebody I traded with, sorry! Reddish, dark copper color. Smell of malt, hops, chocolate, caramel, crackers and brown sugar. Taste of caramel, hops, malt, brown sugar, alcohol, pine, grass, plums, chocolate and wood. Metallic after taste.

(Bottle (best by 4/07) via trade with <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=3 target=blank>EithCubes, thanks Mike!) Utterly great...Pours slightly cloudy, dark, reddish burnt amber. One finger of biscuit head recedes to about 1/4" and stays. Aroma is a malt-fest of caramel, brown sugar and toffee, hints of peat and pine. Mouthfeel quite soft and smooth, pretty sticky. Head feels a little more fizzy than soft. Wonderfully well-defined weepy rings of lace. Great-looking beer. Flavor is toffee, caramel and light peat. Hints of vanilla as it warms. Light piney bitter bite in finish. Some alcohol burn but just enough to let you know this is a little bigger than your average beer. Nicely warming and tasty. My new favorite in this category, overtaking McEwan’s.

12 oz bottle shared above DDC. Poured a reddish/brown with a tight bubbly off white head. Complex aroma of caramel, chocolate, alcohol, malts, dark fruit, raisins and some peat. Flavor was slightly alcohol heavy with notes of toffee, malts, chocolate, dark fruit and raisins. A very very nice scotch ale indeed.

Great example of the style and just a wonderful sipping brew. This pours an attractive roasty near black and has a wispy off-white head that fades quickly. The nose is very active and robust...roasted caramel, malty sweetness, touches of smoke and molasses. The flavors are equally big, bold, and robustly roasty...Dark fruits, smoke, really richly sweet caramel and toffee malts, and a feels-bigger-than-8% ABV than warms the tongue nicely enough. Excellent effort by a fine brewery.

I should be studying for my accounting exam, but instead I am enjoying this fine piece of Scotch Ale and watching the Phils/Nats. This one is bold and beautiful, and strong, and I love it. GO PHILS!

This is much like their barleywine, very sweet, and sour, but with a bitterness that reminds me of coffee and maybe some kind of herb. No head at all. Well-balanced and dark, this is another gem from Duck-Rabbit.

12 oz. bottle via trade with jasonmech77 - Pours a hazy dark amber color with a one finger thick light tan head. Aroma is a strong cookie dough malt and esters. Flavor is sweet caramel malt, peat, and dark esters. Flavor seem to linger on the palate. Not quite to my liking. Medium body. A pretty good beer. Thanks Jason.

Poured a clear, reddish amber color with a small, light tan head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, nuts, wood, and a bit of peat smoke. Taste of sweet caramel, toffee, chocolate, light citrus, and a bit of peat, though not enough to balance the intense sweetness.