Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Townsend: Thirsty, or just need more to drink?

In today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, beer columnist Bob Townsend writes about North Carolina microbrewer Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery, which bills itself as "the dark beer specialist." The regular lineup consists of an amber ale, a brown ale, porter and stout.

Founder Paul Philippon is a former philosophy student who named the company after a well-known ambiguous image that can be seen as either feathered fowl or leaping leporid. A version of the image serves as the brewer's logo.

Philippon says viewers see the image differently depending on their perspective. He tells Townsend:

If you see a duck, it means you're thirsty. And if you see a rabbit, it means you haven't had enough beer.