The Duck-Rabbit Duck-Rabbator Dopplebock

The Duck-Rabbitor Dopplebock is a powerfully malty German-style lager. The malty /
grainy flavors so dominate this beer, it’s like a whole loaf of bread in every glass! Is it a
beverage or is it a meal? It’s both.

3.8

226 reviews

Farmville, United States

Community reviews

3.8 From a 12 oz bottle. Pours a clear cola brown with a tan head. Toffee aroma. Flavors of toffee and caramel. Sweet, effervescent finish. Very tasty.

3.9 Bottle. Moderate roasted, caramel and cereal for the malt, faint grass for the hops, light to moderate broth and dough for the yeast, with wood, smoke, brown sugar and bourbon in the background. Head is average size, frothy, beige with some slippery lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is deep dark burgundy. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes lightly sweet and acidic, and lightly to moderately bitter. Palate is on the fuller side of medium, a little syrupy with a soft to lively carbonation and a sticky finish.16 This Doppelbock has everything true the style, nice meaty and sweet tastes and aromas.

4.0 Pour is a thick, murky syurpy brown with no head at all. Aroma is a nice brown sugar covered plum with some raison and treacle. Flavor is a nice pumpernickel black bread, dark fruit and toffee. Like a liquid tootsie roll. Very rich and nuanced with multiple flavors playing over each other. I have not checked my ratings but this has to be the best dopplebock I’ve ever had. So rich with dark fruit and brown sugar.

3.7 Plum wine, caramel cake batter aroma - sweet, vinous, vanilla, nice. Standard longneck, swamp water ruby-brown beer. Fruity - plums, raisins, dates. A little metal, vanilla wash. Body goes a little wobbly and watery in the middle. Quite good. New Leaf Market.

3.6 Pours a mahogany color with a foamy off white head. Notes of caramel, milk chocolate, smoke, and raw malt with some sourdough.

3.7 Duck Rabbit is never bad. This has the brown sugar and raisins you’d expect from a doppelbock, very slight coffee in the finish. A little sweet.

3.9 I am a real fan of this brewery, never had a bad beer from it, and this is definitely no exception! Pours a dark thick almost syrupy amber, with a thin lacy tan head. The aroma is extremely pleasant and that of roasted coffee beans, malted chocolate and dates. Taste is both pleasant and shocking, definitely wakes up the taste buds with touches of malted chocolate, dark chocolate covered cherries or chocolate covered coffee beans. Many different flavors all at once,a bit sweet, a bit sour, a bit overpowering yet pleasant. Trace of dark alcohol such as a brandy. finishes nicely leaving a full palate, ending a bit sweet but also a bit dry. Definitely a good beer!

3.7 4 oz. pour, on tap at Duckworth’s in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina. Consumed on 9-22-15. Pours an amber / medium brown with taupe head. Very nice appearance. Pitted fruit and chocolate scents. Really nice, caramel, toffee taste. Sophisticated flavors. Perhaps a bit sweeter than ideal but that is quibbling; it’s quite good. One of the best doppelbocks I’ve had. Delicious. A touch of booze in the flavor. Sawdust finish. Medium body. Lively but not particularly crisp in the palate.

4.0 12 oz bottle. Pours light brown with tall, long lasting, fluffy beige head and nice lacing. Aroma is of bready malt, sweet cherries, caramel and hint of coffee. Body is full, creamy and slightly crisp. Taste is of caramel malt, herbal hops, cherries and peppery alcohol. Finish is long, sweet first then becomes dry and peppery. Rich, tasty excellent brew.

3.8 Bottle into lager glass, clear darker rusty-copper color with tan head. Aroma notes of caramel malt sweetness, nuttiness, bread, cocoa, dark fruits and faint vanilla. Taste adds sour cherries, red wine, chocolate, roasted grain, raisins and brown sugar. Medium-heavy body, low carbonation, rich, creamy with fruity roast finish. Best doppelbock I’ve had to date, excellent.

4.5 Aroma: chocolate, caramel, dark fruit Appearance: clear ruby-brown, brown head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, lightly sour, Palate: full body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish, Rather good.

3.8 Caramel aromas, fresh bread, earthy hops, nutty. Hazy brown with a fully lasting head the color of eggnog. Sweet upfront, loads of caramel, molasses, syrupy. Medium-full bodied.

4.3 Draft at WoB C-ville. Beautiful deep ruby maroon brown color, thick beige head with great retention and solid lacing. Aroma of cocoa, prunes, plums, vanilla. Taste has chocolate covered plums, coffe, malted milk balls. Delicious.

3.7 Old rating, great beer. Ruby brown. Huge malt and grain body. Almost chewy. Some dark fruit presence as well. Good stuff.

3.9 This beer is wild. Very filling. Definitely from the german style and this beer will make you want more.

4.2 I haven’t had a doppelbock this good in a long time. Thanks shrubber85. Pours a dark maroon. Tantalizing aromas of dried fruit, red wine, sour cherries and bread. Flavors aren’t dulled down with heavy malts. Instead a bright sour cherry and raisin flavor lift this up. A bit of booze and toasted grain as well. Fantastic beverage.

4.0 This beer reminded me why doppelbock will always be my favorite beer style. Pours a glorious shimmery dark ruby color, excellent lacing and a proportionate white head. The aroma is distinctive, standard caramel maltiness, red fruit, but also a chocolate-cocoa flavor, very fresh and not boozy as some d-bocks are. Taste is delicious, layers of caramel malt, roasty burnt malt, chocolate malt, caramel malt, it's malt-tastic! The body was lighter and not as full as others, but I actually enjoyed it as this was the cleanest finishing doppelbock I've ever had. Absolutely no booziness or indication of the high ABV. Truly excellent in every respect.

2.6 Sampled on draft at Zeno’s in State College this beer poured a dark red-brown color with a large foamy tan head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was faintly malty and did not have anything else going on. The flavor was faintly malty with a hint of dark fruit. Medium finish. Medium body. Surprisingly bland.

3.8 12 ounce bottle. Thanks to my Winter Secret Santa. Pours a dark reddish brown with a nice tan head. Aroma of malt, fruit, caramel, and grain. Taste is malt, dark fruit, caramel, grain, and a hint of chocolate. Very well balanced. Excellent.

3.5 My Bottom Line: Caramel sweetness and earthy hops momentarily tag team until malt flavors decide to take over this warming Doppelbock. Further Personal Perceptions: -A veil of foam tops the hazy dark burgundy. -Candied fruit appears here and there. -Carbonation is soft and the residual sugar level is high. Which is about right for the style. -Malt flavors are a tad linear, which is not uncommon for Doppelbocks. On tap at The Thirsty Monk, Asheville.

3.1 A dark brown Bock with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet caramel malt with dark fruits, vinous character, pleasant. In mouth, a sweet fruity caramel malt with dark fruits, molasses, alcohol warmth, nice. On tap at Thirsty Monk.

3.9 I love getting an American doppelbock! Complex beer - sweet raisins in the nose with a huge malty foundation. The flavor comes on sweet as well but resolves into a nice dry chocolate. Good beer, fun gravity. Drink responsibly.

4.4 La fois où je m’attends à absolument rien et que je tombe là-dessus!? Une base caramélisée qui se retrouve encercler d’un café moka bien torréfié pour tromper les sucres, du chocolat et de la profondeur des malts. Scié en deux.

3.8 Transfer from BA review on 9-14-13- Served on tap in a point glass Appearance – The beer is served a deep murky brown color with a one finger tan head. The head fades rather fast leaving a bit of streaky lace on the sides of the glass. Smell – The aroma is big of sweet caramel and some smells of dark fruits of fig and cherry. The aroma also has a decent toasted malt aroma as well as some notes of chocolate mixed within. Rounding out these smells are some notes of a grassy hop, complimenting the others nicely. Taste – The taste begins with a big sweet roasted malt flavor. The sweetness is of a caramel nature upfront with it transitioning to a more brown sugar and molasses sweetness more toward the end. The roasted malt flavor upfront is a mix of brown bread and some toasted malt tastes. Some lighter coffee flavors hit the tongue as well as a rather nice hit of dark fruit flavors more toward the middle of the taste. With a little bit of a herbal taste as well as some alcohol greeting the tongue at the end, taste an overall sweet, roasty, and warming taste is left on the tongue. Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the thicker and creamier side with a carbonation level that is rather midrange. The thick body is very nice for the big sweet and roasty flavors enhancing the warming nature of the brew. Overall –This one has nice and big sweet flavors with lots of malt. A rather tasty doppelbock that is well worth a try.

4.0 Draft at Closed for Business. Pours a dark red brown with a tan head. Heavy malt aromas, raisins and dark bread. Sweet and just a bit roasty. Raisins and black tea.

4.0 Pours a very dark brown, nearly black. It has a small tan head. Aroma is caramel malts, some dark fruit coming through. It does have a slight alcohol smell and taste. You can definitely tell the alcohol is present but it is not overpowering. Flavor is very rich, thick and malt forward, on the sweeter side. The darkest richest dopplebock I have ever had. That is not a bad thing. This is simply a great beer!

3.5 From a bottle. Pours hazy reddish brown with a fizzy bubbly beige head. Tastes like roasted malt, roasted coffee, sweet molasses, earthy, light booze and light ash. Light body and low carbonation. Smells like roasted nuts, sweet malty booze, toast.

3.6 Bottle. Pours brown with ruby highlights and creamy beige head. Aroma is cookie and caramel malts, fig, dates, faint plums, faint spice, and some boozy notes. Flavor is malt forward, some sweetness, dark fruit esters, and light bitterness; dry finish with a touch of woodiness. Medium body and carbonation.

3.9 Dark brown pour. Tan head. Definitely darker than most dopplebocks I have had. Most roasty and dark fruit than usual as well. Definitely a good beer though.

3.9 This one poured a darker brown color with a beige head. Aroma was of toasted malt, smoke, chocolate and some dark fruits. Flavor was mainly prunes and smoke, some chocolate too. Tasty, but a little off style.