Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron with Cedar Chips

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale
Milton, Delaware USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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Pouring at the Night of the Barrels on the Friday night of EBF 2012. Pours a deep black with a thin beige head. Cedar on the nose, rich and smoky sweet, chocolate. Roast, chocolate and wood. Cedar, spicy malt. Booze and vanilla, chocolate and roast. Long spicy alcohol on the finish.

From a 355 ml bottle, pours a black, oily, slightly syrupy. Thin tan head, aroma is interesting, with prominent cedar, chocolate malts, black pepper. Thick creamy mouthfeel with a sharp bitterness, warm alcohol feel. It is 12% after all. Intense. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pour at Night of the Barrels (EBF). Big fan of the original beer with some age on it so didn’t know what to expect. Dark brown with a light brown head. Seems like both a muted and enhanced version of the base beer - roasted malts, smoke, nutty, malty, alcohol and wood (was nice to have the wood without the bourbon flavours). Definitely hot, sweet with a nice depth from the cedar, moderate carbonation and decent body, lots of booze.