As the dark beer specialist, The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery has encountered many misconceptions about beer color and how it relates to flavor and body. Dark beer is not always heavy, full-bodied, or chock full of alcohol. In fact, one of the lightest beers...

2014 was another landmark year at The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery. Appropriately so, for it also marked the end of our first decade of operation. While our gaze is ever forward, it is nice to take a brief moment to reflect on such a wonderful year before...

December is a month of endings and beginnings. The winter solstice on the 21st marks the end of fall and the beginning of winter. Daylight ceases to shorten and begins to lengthen. Traditionally, as the deep cold of winter settled every year, people across...

This may sound rash, but I am confident that every craft beer enthusiast has a handful of landmark moments in her or his beer-drinking history. These are those love-at-first-taste experiences that imprint lasting memories upon the brain. I can remember the...

Jonathan Swift once purportedly said, “He was a bold man, who first ate an oyster.” Surely, bolder is the man who first added oysters to beer. While the oyster stout may seem like a new style of beer reserved for the upper crust, it actually has its roots...

Let’s gather around the Thanksgiving table and celebrate those things that we are most thankful for: friends and family, life and health, good food and beer! Beer should absolutely be served with your Thanksgiving meal, because it is the most versatile of...

There’s a definite chill in the air and that means it is time to get outside and enjoy the beautiful fall days. This is the perfect time of year to gather around a grill or campfire with friends to share our love of food and beer, and perhaps watch a...

Of Sparging and ClarityIn my own journey through the beer world, the 80 Shilling (historic cost per barrel) Scottish Ale became one of the first on my (now very long) list of favorite kinds of beers.Scotch Ale, also known as Wee Heavy, 160 Shillings, and...

Every year on the first weekend of October, the Brewers Association (BA) hosts the Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) in Denver, Colorado. The BA is one of the largest member-based craft beer organizations boasting over 2,300 brewery members. It is...

“I love cooking with beer! Sometimes I even put it in the food.” Sure this joke usually applies to wine, but it can certainly be used for Duck-Rabbit beer drinkers as well. Fall is on the horizon and the weather is perfect for grilling, so now is the...