The Duck-Rabbit Märzen

The Duck-Rabbit Märzen is the lightest of our Germal-style lagers. This is a beer
designed for outdoor autumn festivals! Soft malt flavors take center stage here. This
one is subtle and beguiling.

3.3

256 reviews

Farmville, United States

Community reviews

3.3 12 ounce bottle. Pours an amber / copper color with a medium-sized creamy beige head. Aroma is toasted malt with caramel and brown bread. Upfront, flavor is sweet toasted malt. Hints of caramel and toasted bread. Light bodied, yet flavorful. Floral hop finish. Overall, a bit light for an Oktoberfest beer.

3.4 Draft. Pours clear copper with a very thin head. Tastes like toffee malt, dried fruits, nutty, and earthy. Light body and low/medium carbonation. Smells like dried fruits, toffee malt, nutty, and earthy.

3.6 Tap. Pours clear copper. Aroma is caramel and bready malts, nuttiness, very faint floral and chocolate notes, and faint lager yeast esters. Flavor is smooth and sweet with nice caramel malt backbone and soft earthy bitterness. Medium body.

3.0 Sweeter, but less bready style of marzen. Good toffee and vanilla notes. Easy drinker.

3.3 Has a bit of a smoked malty aroma. Taste is a malt spice mix. Decent brew.....

2.1 Clear russet. Quick white foam holds merely a wispy collar. Defective nose of DMS, metal, medicine, grape jelly, alcohol, papery malt and candy apples. Loose and fuzzy carbonation deposits a foamy residue on the palate. A strong slickness compounds the oppressive sweetness, as notes of grape jelly collide with poorly cloaked alcohol and gummy-candylike sugars. DMS muddles things, as the incessant sugars continue to punish the tongue. Unrefined malt character brings to mind instant iced tea spiked with malt syrup, and exhibits a profound lack of definition, texture and vividness (evidence that not even a single decoction was employed). Hint of wet paper worsens things. Notes of red licorice, alcohol and Red Delicious apple elevate the sweetness to medicinal levels in the wet and syrupy finish. The usual flaws found in this style are all present here, especially in regards to attenuation and cleanliness. It’s a full-bodied, insufferably sweet sugar bomb with zero nuance and nothing remotely appealing. One sip was all I could handle before down the drain she went.

3.6 Tallahassee, Fl. - ABC Fine Wine & Spirits - 12 oz bottle. Dark copper pour with a tight khaki colored head that fades after a while. Pleasantaroma of caramel and vanilla. Solidly sweet flavor of molasses, caramel and a bit of toffee. Very full bodied Oktoberfest. Mouthfeel is pleasantly thick and somewhat creamy. Pretty solid.

3.0 12oz bottle. Amber in color with an off white head. Caramel, some toasted nuttiness, and stale bread.

3.9 EBD 11/15. Clear amber pour. Normal head volume, lacing and retention. Typical marzen nose of bready malt - caramel and biscuit. Underneath is a light fruity ester - apple or apricot. Light medium body that is quite smooth in texture. Slightly below normal carbonation with a hint of effervescence in the middle and a noticeable amount in the finish. The flavor profile is quite outstanding. It begins with a rich wave of malt - toasted biscuit and caramel. Sweetness is perfectly balanced and never becomes cloying. The middle has a very subtle bitterness and an equally subtle noble hop earthy flavor. As the finish approaches, the fruit notes are evident as it becomes more grainy with a subtle nut aspect. The finish is a slow fade of slightly sweet noble hop flavor.

2.8 Easy drinking. Some barley and residual sweetness. Golden amber pour. Light clean finish. Bottle.

4.0 very nicely balanced beer. nice carmel color with tan head. aroma is pleasent with traces of nuts and cream. taste is sweet yet subtle no harsh bitterness. finishes nicely.

3.4 Bottled. Brownish amber pour white head. Crisp malts with a caramel tang. Not too bad.

3.4 On tap (TCT) at the 2015 Albino Skunk Music Festival. As might be expected from the"dark beer specialist", this looks darker and has a darker roasted malt flavor than usual for style. Otherwise, and overall, this is on style. This includes the aroma which features caramel(?) malts and hops in about equal measure.

3.3 Draft. Clear copper color with a small white head that lasts. Big caramel aroma, sticky syrup from Aunt Jemima, nuts. Slightly sweet start to the flavor, medium bitterness. A little thick on the feel as DR tends to be, with average carbonation. Above average for the style. Märzens, amirite!

3.7 9/23/15. 12oz bottle from a sixer, Five Points. Amber pour with a nice khaki head, good lacing. Nice aroma, lightly malty, hints at caramel, seltzer water, touch of acidity and nuttiness. Good flavor, subtle, nice maltiness, caramel, toasted bread, light nutty aspect, a hint of acidity, doughy. Tasty stuff!

3.9 Great Americanized version. Soft and sweet malt upfront carries through the hole beer. Slight hops to just balance at the end and lower carbonated to allow malt to shine. Slight caramel, nutty, roasted sweetness hold this deep colored copper brew. Very good for the season.

3.4 The Duck-Rabbit Märzen is the lightest of their beers. The specialize in darker beers but this in isnt bad. It is more subtle and not a bad choice.

3.6 Bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a thin ring of off white head. Aroma and taste of bread malts, some spices, and a hint of caramel.

3.4 Pours a dark orange color with a lacy white head. Notes of caramel, sour mash, earth, and bread. Pretty basic but some nice maltiness.

3.0 12oz bottle from The Beer Store Wilson. Dark orange-reddish hue, murky clarity with mostly diminishing off-white fizzy head. Virtually no lacing. Sweet fruit aroma. Bland fruity taste up front with the same finish. As it wared there was more malt flavor on the finish. Lively carbonation on the palate.

3.0 Clear orange brown with a fast-fade-to-rim off white head. No lacing. Aroma is sweet bready malts and corn. Taste is sweet caramel and bread malts with noble hop bitterness. Thick, slightly sticky mouthfeel. Pretty representative Marzen-style. Quite decent.

2.7 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a clear deep copperish-brown with a thin soapy head. No head retention at all and also no lacing. Pretty disappointing. Aroma is an interesting mixture of caramel, vegetables, and metal. Some apple notes too. The flavor is a little better but still an odd mixture of what seem to be off-flavors. Caramel and fruit are more pronounced with apples figuring in even more prominently. A touch of tartness with a bit of a chalky finish. Overall, this beer just seems a bit "off". Not sure if it is a sanitation issue or a yeast issue but there are definitely off-flavors here. Really needs to be cleaned up.

3.2 Bottle. Sodium amber color. Aroma is caramel, grains. Taste is caramel, but not too sweet and grains.

3.2 Poured from a bottle it is a clear light amber color with a slight head. The aroma is sour apple the taste is a slight bitterness with black licorice overtones

3.2 From a 12 oz bottle shared in Avon NC. Pours a hazy amber with an ecru head. Flavors of caramel. Medium bodied. Slight bitter finish.

3.6 Poured from bottle into shaker. Pours a reddish gold color with a 1 finger head which rapidly reduces to a skim. Aroma - lots of malt on the nose, some spiciness from the hops. Taste - lots of caramel initially, then some biscuit notes, a touch spicy, goes back to a nice caramelly finish. Nicely carbonated, with good finish and really pretty clean. This is a really nice marzen.

3.9 Aromas of toast, dried fruit, caramel. Clear ruby with a somewhat lasting off-white head. Dry, toasty. Light-medium bodied, clean.

3.5 Very good Marzen. Great autumn color and smell of bread and sweets. Taste was malty but well balanced.

3.6 Transfer from BA review on 8-29-13- Poured from bottle into a pint glass Appearance – The beer pours a reddish-mahogany color with tiny off white head. The head fades almost instantly leaving almost no lace on the sides of the glass. Smell – The smell is sweet of a brown caramel smell with a good deal of roasted malt mixed within. Some aromas of dark fruit mingle with the roasted and sugar smells as well as a bit of a spice and nut aroma to produce a rather nice marzen aroma. Taste – The taste begins very mild with a bit of a caramel and darker fruit flavors as well as a bit of a bready taste and a very light roasted taste. As the flavor advances the sweetness gains a small amount of potency with more caramel coming to the tongue. While the sweetness only gains a light level of intensity the roasted gets quite a bit stronger with some lighter spice and nut flavors developing rather late. In the end a little bit of a yeasty and more sweetness of apple and caramel come to the tongue leaving a rather pleasant roasted and sweet flavor on the tongue. Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the lighter side with a carbonation level that is rather average. While the body is a bit thin, it does give the beer a bit more crispness which with the lighter flavors upfront create an easy drinking brew when combined with the average carbonation. Overall – A rather tasty brew overall that has a decent flavor profile and a rather easy drinking feel.

3.6 Bottle. Pours an amber color with white head. Caramel, biscuit, slight peanut aromas. Toasty, malty, slight bitter, biscuit flavors. A really authentic version of a marzen.