The Duck-Rabbit Wee Heavy Scotch Style Ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A deep dark mahogany colored beer with a big light tan frothy head rising above. There's some hang time on the head. It settles into a moderate creamy ringlet. Notes of caramel malt in the nose. Earthy, smokey, all make this a great representative of the style. Full bodied and smooth.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours pours out copper color with no head. The aroma is of swwet malt and toffee. The mouthfeel is okay. The taste is of hazelnut and of smoke. There is a slight taste that of raisins.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I had this beer also while at "The Pit" in Raleigh, North Carolina. This was a better representative of the Scottish Ale than the Founders version. This paired really well with the ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. I thought this was great.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

A clear deep amber pour with a well-sustained cream head and tons of lacing. Big sweet malty aroma with some nuts, caramel, brown sugar and slight smoke and hops. Taste is big, malty, sweet, rich, smooth with brown sugar, slight smoke, a touch of toffee, and just plain good. Loved this one.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10

Pours a clear, deep mahogany with a decent tan head - very inviting. Aroma is strong and smoky with hints of caramel and coffee, much like a stout or porter. Rich malty flavor has firm nutty and smoky tones, as well as hints of caramel and hop bitterness. Texture is smooth but edgy, and finish has a hoppy undertone and a touch of sweetness.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

The aroma is sweet and creamy-like with hints of sweet chocolate coming through and is malty with maybe some dark raisins as well. The appearance is a very nice, rich burgundy to amber or mahogany with a nice and small head on top that discipates leaving nice, light-tan lacing on the glass. The mouthfeel is very nice and full-bodied with very excellent malty complexity with great balance with a creamy and foamy pallet that coats very well. The flavor is creamy and sweet with some roasted malts, light chocolate, and maybe with some nutty characteristics with an aftertaste that is creamy and very smooth and is somewhat whiskey-like with a nice, warming note from the alcohol. Overall, this is great stuff and perfect for this time of year. I want more of this definitely, bravo to the brewers of this beer!

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Best By Date of 06/08; Sampled October 2008
A slightly vigorous pour into my 25cl tulip glass produces a three-finger thick, lightly amber-tinged, tan colored head that is fairly large bubbled, but still manages to last a bit longer than I would expect. The beer is murky, dark, amber tinged, brown color that shows a somewhat hazy, light cranberry-red hue when held up to the light. The aroma is quite sweet and malty with expressive caramelized malt sugar aromatics, sweet toffee, brown sugar glazed whole grain bread, well toasted grain and a dusty grain character. This has a touch of fruitiness to it that provides a very soft berry like note to the nose. If you like caramel and toffee, then this aroma is for you; very malt focused.

While a bit sweet, it is not nearly as sweet as the aroma suggested; instead it has a rich, chewy, caramelized maltiness to it that is exactly what I was hoping for. This has a very thick, rich, body to it that really sticks to the palate; it is almost a bit too thick and rich for a Wee-Heavy. Lots of toffee flavors that have been mixed with the crust of a chewy, well browned, almost burnt, whole-grain bread crust. A touch of alcohol heat enters in at the finish at times, though it is never overwhelming. As the beer warms it gets less sweet, and chewier, with even more palate-coating malt character to it as well as more of a murky-malt character.

The aroma is spot on for the style, though the aroma is perhaps a touch too thick and toffee / caramel focused, even for a Wee-Heavy. Somehow the flavor comes off as being a touch to muddled, perhaps even murky, though I definitely appreciate that it is not overly sweet for such a thick beer. This must have a pretty standard best by date, as this will easily be good for another couple years.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Poured a very cloudy brown color with small tan head which left great lacing. Aroma was of caramel and some grass and dark fruits. Flavor was of smokey something lot and lots of caraml, dark fruits. Good solid beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle from unclejedi. Pour was murky brown, nice tannish colored head, good lacing. The aroma was strong caramel, fruity, some smoked grass notes. The flavor was caramel, really strong caramel, moderately smokey grass notes (distinguished from peaty grass in my mind), honey, finishing with a touch of spice and dark fruits as it neared room temperature (and the latter two a few minutes after I had a sandwich and glass of water about 3/4 of the way through). Higher alcohol never detected even after the food (which normally kicks it up for me - this thing was better right after the food). Seemed to also be something Belgian about this, either candi sugar or yeast? Mouthfeel was full but a little sticky, kept honesty by the tingly spice and carbonation. Thanks, Jim!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Bottle courtesy of Turdfurgeson: Poured a deep clear copper color ale with an average size head with average retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of sweet malt is quite intense. Taste is also dominated by the intense sweet malt with no notes of peat malt or toffee that I usually like in the style. This beer resemble more a barleywine then a scotch ale and was definitely too sweet for the style.