Duck Rabbit 10th Anniversary Anarchy

Discussion in 'South Atlantic' started by c64person, Dec 17, 2014.

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  1. CavemanRamblin

    CavemanRamblin Initiate (0) Jun 19, 2014 North Carolina
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    Ha actually I put it in the fridge for last night but passed out before I got to it. Drank it this morning while watching soccer.
     
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  2. c64person

    c64person Initiate (0) Mar 20, 2010 Michigan

    I had it on tap last week, it was terribly infected. Huge ass, dissapointing, cottage cheese tasting POS. I hope my remaining bottles have held up better. :slight_frown:
     
  3. treznor

    treznor Pooh-Bah (1,814) Dec 20, 2006 North Carolina
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    Seriously? I don't understand how this brewery continues to put out infected beer. I swear almost everything I taste from Duck Rabbit is infected (though many don't taste it). I took a flyer on this because I had it on tap and it was so damned tasty... Guess I'll learn some day.
     
  4. phishbfm

    phishbfm Initiate (0) Dec 4, 2010 North Carolina

    Where did you have it on tap? This is extremely frustrating as I would hope a brewery rep was there as it had to be a rare tapping. You would think someone would've tasted it and then pulled it off tap.

    Selling pours of that is bush league, IMO.
     
  5. ddtprm

    ddtprm Initiate (0) Jul 9, 2008 South Carolina

    I stopped buying D-R beers a few years back when they had a serious infection problem. I had horribly infected six packs of Rabid Duck, Hoppy Bunny, and Milk Stout. At the same time, people were saying no problems with the draft stuff. D-R acknowledged the issue in an email. I had started buying again here and there in the last year or two with no issues. I opened a 2 year old Rabid Duck the other day that was great. If this is happening again this is pretty unnerving. As others have mentioned, this has to be a bottling issue. I've never had an issue with draft D-R beers.

    Sad.
     
  6. scott10010

    scott10010 Initiate (0) Nov 21, 2011 North Carolina

    Drank a bottle Saturday night. Not infected. Stored at room temp before Saturday AM.
     
  7. AppaZappa

    AppaZappa Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2015 North Carolina

    Had a bottle on Saturday that was infected. Opened another--same thing. Have one left that was actually the first one I bought, but I'm not holding out much hope. Contacted the brewery to let them know.

    Can't believe that places are serving this--in its infected form--on tap. That is bush league.
     
  8. brentk56

    brentk56 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,013) May 13, 2004 North Carolina
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    Why are the ratings for this so high? I finally tried ione of my bottles last night and it was infected. Perhaps many reviewers don't know an infection when they taste it and don't want to look ignorant in a market where developing a palate for sours is viewed as being trendy?
     
  9. CavemanRamblin

    CavemanRamblin Initiate (0) Jun 19, 2014 North Carolina
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    I would think it's because most people drank it and rated it when it first came out and wasn't infected yet. It was quite good then.
     
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  10. Sayson

    Sayson Initiate (0) Apr 16, 2005 North Carolina

    For those of you with Anarchy in the cellar, I'd move them to the fridge. The cooler temps will slow the growth of what sounds like Brett. The reproduction rate of the infection progresses much more quickly at room temp.
     
  11. GehenHerzog

    GehenHerzog Initiate (0) Jan 24, 2010 North Carolina

    the one I had on tap at Duckworths Saturday wasn't infected in the slightest.
     
  12. samtallica

    samtallica Initiate (0) Jul 22, 2010 North Carolina

    Brett doesn't sour beer. This is lacto or pedio.
     
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  13. brentk56

    brentk56 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,013) May 13, 2004 North Carolina
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    I noted that, but even the recent reviews have mostly high scores. For some reason it appears that many of us on this thread who are tasting infected bottles are not also rating the beer.
     
  14. brentk56

    brentk56 Grand Pooh-Bah (5,013) May 13, 2004 North Carolina
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    I think it is likely too late. I moved mine from the cellar to the fridge when this thread got started but that did not stop the infection.
     
  15. CavemanRamblin

    CavemanRamblin Initiate (0) Jun 19, 2014 North Carolina
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    Well I personally rated it when I first had it and then only recently had one that was infected. I guess I could go back and change my rating based on that, but I don't really care that much so hadn't event thought of it.

    I had a bottle maybe 3 weeks ago and thought it was fine. And there are still some non-infected bottles out there too based on what some other people are saying in here. It sounds like a good number of them are infected, but I'm sure there are some that aren't. I'd more likely believe that someone had an okay bottle versus them not being able to taste the infection.
     
  16. Handle

    Handle Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2009 North Carolina

    The thing that bothers me most about this whole situation isn't that Duck-Rabbit is once again putting out infected beer and at a premium price (even though that's pretty bad) -- it's that they won't publicly acknowledge any of this. People make mistakes, I get that. And they can't simply replace that beer with non-infected bottles, even if they wanted to -- I get that as well. But man, just acknowledge there was an issue, apologize, and work on re-establishing some trust with your consumers and the people who were once some of your biggest advocates. That would go a long way, in my opinion.

    As it stands, it looks like there was clearly an issue, Duck-Rabbit was made known of it and pointed to this thread, and decided to just leave it without comment.
     
  17. fehrminator

    fehrminator Savant (1,217) Jan 26, 2008 North Carolina
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    I just re-rated based on the last bottle that I had. Thanks for the reminder. I never heard back from DR and share the frustration at their complete lack of customer service/human decency. I'm beyond disappointed because I see them as one of the true founding fathers of the NC craft scene. I thought that they were better than this. I was wrong.
     
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  18. CavemanRamblin

    CavemanRamblin Initiate (0) Jun 19, 2014 North Carolina
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    I drank another one tonight and I guess it was infected, but honestly tasted kinda good. Was kind of hard to tell with this one, maybe it was in an earlier stage or something. Tasted like a sour stout.
     
  19. Sayson

    Sayson Initiate (0) Apr 16, 2005 North Carolina

    Yes, you're right. Brett doesn't sour beer, but I expect there's brett along with the lacto/Pedio
     
  20. Handle

    Handle Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2009 North Carolina

    I'm not trying to sound funny, but if anyone actually enjoys the taste of the infected beer I'm happy to trade for whatever. I have a couple bottles left.
     
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