Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
Duck-Rabbit is a packaging microbrewery that began sales in August 2004 and is located in Farmville, North Carolina. Duck-Rabbit specializes in dark beers.
Beers
- Duck-Rabbit Amber Ale is a medium-bodied beer with a tawny copper or bronze color. This brew emphasizes malt complexity with layered caramel malt flavors. 5.5% ABV (alcohol by volume).
- Duck-Rabbit Brown Ale is an American brown ale brewed with loads of hops from start to finish. Amarillo hops in the boil provide a spicy, citrusy bitterness. Saaz hops dry hops in the fermentor provide a refined flowery aroma. These hops are supported by a grain bill of seven varieties of malt. 5.6% ABV.
- Duck-Rabbit Porter is very dark in color. This robust porter features a pronounced flavor of roasted grains reminiscent of dark chocolate. Oats are added to the grist to give a subtle round silkiness to the mouthfeel. 5.7% ABV.
- Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout is a traditional full-bodied stout brewed with lactose (milk sugar). The subtle sweetness imparted by the lactose balances the sharpness of the highly roasted grains which give this beer its black color. 5.7% ABV.
- Rabid Duck Russian Imperial Stout was released at the end of December '05 and contains 10% ABV.
- Wee Heavy Scotch Ale was released in early April '06 and has 8% ABV.
- Baltic Porter was released in the fall of '07. It has 9% ABV.
- Barleywine Ale was released in the winter of '08. It has an ABV in the range of most wines at 11%.
Collaboration with Foothills and Olde Hickory
Duck-Rabbit collaborated with Foothills Brewing and Olde Hickory Brewery to create a Bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout called "Olde Rabbit's Foot". The special limited release was crafted from wort from all three craft breweries, brewed with honey and cocoa nibs, and aged in 23-year-old bourbon barrels. It had an ABV of 10.13%. Only 694 bottles were released.[1]
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