The Duck-Rabbit Hoppy Bunny ABA
The Duck-Rabbit Hoppy Bunny American Black Ale is both intensely hoppy and intensely BLACK! Eight separate hop additions offer delicious bitterness and beguiling hop aroma/flavor. Heavily represented among these hops are Chinook, which provides deep pine and sticky citrus components and a New Zealand hop called Motueka, from which we get bright fruit and spearmint notes.
3.7
308 reviews
Farmville, United States
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Dark brown appearance. Aroma is roasted and coffee. Flavour is earthy, malt, brown sugar, boozy, coffee and liquorice.
Bottle from Beautiful Beers. Dark mahogany colour with a very small tan head. Aroma of roasted malts and citrus peel. Taste is intriguing, with notes of coffee a grapefruit skin, along with pine and mint. The balance between quite an intense sweetness and a very hoppy bitterness is excellent. The carbonation is very low and mouthfeel is very good. This is a really interesting and well-made beer. Highly recommended.
Bottle from BeautifulBeers.co.uk. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, malty, roasted malt and light hoppy - citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 090419
very dark, small tan head, dark hoppy, piney smell. Taste is a little bitter and piney,flat dark malt taste. More of a dark ipa.
Poured from 12 oz bottle into pint glass. A thin tan head falls quickly with mild lacing. Color is dark reddish brown. Aroma citrus, pine, and roasted malt. Mouthfeel between light and medium, astringent, with a somewhat damp finish. Balance of grapefruit, citrus rind with dark roasted malt, cocoa, raisin. Overall it is very good and enjoyable.
Aroma - roast, citrus, pine
Appearance - body is a very dark cola color. The head is khaki and foamy in color. Ring of foam.
Taste - has a deep roast, piney hops, irony.
Palate - body is medium, texture is smooth, carbonation is average, finish is slightly astringent.
Pours black, good sized brown head. Aroma is roast malt, espresso, hints of mint, hints of citrus. Flavor alternates slightly sweet malt with intense hop bitterness, pine and coffee, soapiness. Smooth creamy mouthfeel. The aroma comes together better than the taste.
4/1/18
With A after a wonderful lazy Easter filled with eating ~5k calories or candy and chicken.
Poured from bottle into a tulip. Opaque jet black with a humongous tan head that leaves a lot of lacing. Their logo is fun as well.
Smell is very roasty. Lots of coffee and dark chocolate with maybe a slight hint of piney hops. Smells kinda like a stout. Interesting.
Taste follows through with coffee and dark chocolate malts but also has some of piney and citrus hops. Strikingly bitter with almost zero sweetness. Complex and very tasty.
Palate is medium with a bit of astringency and lingering bitterness. Would be thin for a stout but its very nice for my expectation of a hoppy black ale.
Overall, this is great! I️ think with this and Java Head, the combo of roast/coffee malt and hops is growing on me. I really like it!
Amazing beer. Dark as night, tan head. Big full mouthfeel. Great hop bitterness. Some pine needles and mustiness.
Intensely bitter Black IPA, but lacking in the deep, rich, roasted malt notes you usually want in the style, instead offering up a clingy, overpowering hop bitterness offset by a metallic fruitiness and a not-altogether-welcome vegetal vein. Some espresso and bakers chocolate, but also a clingy copper-like harshness accented by citric hops and yeast, cherry, and raisin streaks. Lacks definition beyond its all-encompassing bitterness. Pours a dark, dark brown with a brief beige head and modest lacing. Surprising how much chocolate is in the nose, since it doesn't translate very far into the flavor. Perky texture with a medium body, good for the style. Overall a pretty rough Black IPA.
Bottle from Total Wine in Orlando, FL. Aroma is roasted malts, spent coffee, mild herbal aroma. Taste is chocolate, coffee with a nice hoppy / bitter backbone. Very tasty.
Pours a black from a bottle, faint pine and slight mint aroma. Similar flavor with a bit o coffee thrown into the mix. Good beer.
One of the better black IPAs out there, Hoppy Bunny pours up dark brown with red highlights and a sizeable tan ring of head. Deeply roasty aroma with lots of piney resinous hops. Thick creamy mouthfeel. Flavors of bakers chocolate, smoke and prickly pine with hints of spearmint in the background. Rindy earthy bitter fade.
Very dark burnt brown pour with tan head. Aroma is roast chocolate malt with pine and citrus notes. Taste leans toward overly roasted almost burnt malt. Initials taste bites the tongue. As it fades, it becomes more pleasant.
Bottle. Roasted malt aroma with chocolate malt, and pine resiny and citrus hops. Pours black with a large mocha brown head that has excellent retention and good lacing. Starts with roasted and chocolate malt flavors. Finishes smooth and dry with citrus hops and slight pine resiny bitterness. Great black IPA.
Bottle from tavour. Nice whiff of hops that comes once poured. Thick black pour with wheat appears to be malty grains. Tastes of dark Malts and dank hops. Really nice play on the style. Fantastic.
Bottle from Total Wine in Daytona. Dark dense pour. Rocky head. Black licorice, pine, fruit, and spearmint. Solid.
Bottle from Total Wine & More, McLean. Dark brown body with beige head. Nose is malts, cacao, coffee. Taste if malts, brown sugar, caramel, chocolate. Very creamy texture. Some spices in the finish. Pretty good stuff.
Bottle. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of citrus hops, pine, roast and chocolate. Flavor was earthy and slightly bitter with roasted malts, pine, citrus, chocolate and had some licorice notes.
Bitter and rich. Nice dark ipa. Aroma is hoppy and has some floral, but more woods. Color is black and transparent. Nicely done. Tap
Pours a dark brown with a healthy tan head. Grassy and citrusy notes on the nose. Dark roast malt wafts out as well. Full mouthfeel with some puckering astringency late. Better balance of the hop character with the malt than most, if not all the black IPAs I’ve had in the past. Duck Rabbit is nailing their landings!
Duck-Rabbit Hoppy Bunny is a solid BIPA. Pours dark with light tan head. Mild fresh hop aroma. Taste is mostly bitter with a bit of chocolate on the backend. Hoppy Bunny is enjoyable but not a standout.
Bottle. It pours a dark brown/black color with a foamy light brown head. The aroma is hoppy with strong pine and treacle, molasses, a little cocoa and toast. The flavor is the same. Pine, roasted malt, treacle and molasses. Lots of piney, roasted, smoky bitterness. Full bodied. A good, powerful black IPA.
12oz bottle from Appalachian Vintners in Asheville. Dark brown pour with a beige head leaving spotty lacing. Aroma has tangy raisins, chocolate, espresso, and caramel. Taste is of sweet caramel malts, light grapes, cocoa, some espresso and some licorice. Medium bodied with soft carbonation, some alcohol and a solid blend. Finishes to the sweet side of bittersweet. Reasonably solid for style. 13.9
looks like a dark porter - smell and flavor are really nice balance of pine sap and earthy spicy hops, and roasted chocolate and coffee malts. Moderately bitter, complex yet easy drinking.
Hoppy-Bunny has a thin-to-medium beige head, a dark brown appearance, with regular brown showing up, as the light hits it, and some lacing left behind. The aroma is of a touch of bright citrus, brown bread crust, and Medium Master Chef Coffee. Taste is of brown bread, bitterness, bread crust, a touch of citrus, a ghost of chocolate, and no char. Mouthfeel is low medium, and Hoppy-Bunny finishes relatively mellow and medium dry. For a 7.3% ale, booze is not picked up. RJT
Pours black with a little light tan head and some lacing. Aroma is chocolate and light roast with the some hops in the background. Taste is bitter chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. The hops are subdued. Medium bodied with a creamy mouth feel. This is a less hoppy sublimely self righteous.
Fine beer. It's is dark as night with a khaki head. Mild bitterness. Slight hop aroma. Definite roast as well. A bit sweet. Probably too sweet for my liking. Is like a tad more hop aroma. And maybe a tad more hop taste to play better with the roastiness. A little thin feeling. All in all I like all the beers I've had over the years from the DR this is no different.
It pours a dark brown with very little light that comes through it. It has a brown head that does produce some lacing. It has aromas of caramel and roast. The combination of spearmint and citrus hops gives it a very perfume like aroma. There are flavors of roast, spearmint notes, citrus, some burnt characteristics, and chocolate. It has a moderate feel with a fairly heavy bitter finish. Overall this is a unique take on a black IPA in that the spearmint gives the roast and chocolate and the citrus hops a sweet tinge to it.
Shift drink at the bar. This beer was flying under the radar with customers. Well built Black IPA, darkest body, roast and malt backbone. Bitterness is on the citrus side and completes Hoppy Bunny.