Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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

4-pack. Thick lasting brown head on black beer. Very strong aroma with plenty of alcohol malt and probably wood. Some spices waft up with the wood but its hard to isolate the scent is so intense. Beer starts with a wine like taste and body. MIddle and end are thicker with dark malt. Giant alcohol kick at the finish. Gets tastier as you get used to the alcohol. Molasses and spice. Tasty but with a big continuing alcohol kick. If molasses was aged in wood with wine this might be what would result.

Unknown bottle batch. Deep dark brown, a deep murky mahoganey. The nose is not as pungent as some past batches. No worries, still has a nice floral perfume. Deep toasty brown malt notes with a touch of smoke and a drying oak nose. Less potent is the spicy incense of the first releases, the sacred wood mellows. Rich and full bodied with a syphony of flavors. Demurera sugar, dark rum, and malted milk tie into a spicy and floral palate. Toasted nuts and smokey toffe finish the beer of as the only alcohol presense is made known in the chest. Well balanced, well made. Not easy to find but a beer made for cigars, something with a Cameroon wrapper. Should cellar well for 2+ years. 94

Bottle: Weak aroma (typical of Big / Strong beers) this stuff is not for the beginners. strong, potent, a punch in the gut. Then mellows out and bring out all the floral, woody, earthy and vanilla flavors. flies like a butterfly stings like a bee. Drank in San Diego in ’09. Keep it up DFH.

Bottle at Montreal "Mondial de la Bière" 2009. Dark brown color. Intense malt aroma, pretty sweet. Taste is complex: coffee, chocolate, dry fruits, alchool, leather (?) and wood. Moderate bitterness striking out of this thick brew and flavors linger in a warming aftertaste. Alchool quite hidden. Interesting but I really felt this was very heavy and not at all an easy drinking beer.

Sample from a bottle at the Brevard County Beer Fest--Dark, dark brown color with a light tan, froathy head. Aroma of malts and a touch of burnt coffee. The taste was malty and coffee, there was some alcohol there, but nowhere you would think a 12% beer would pocess.

Bottle. Pour is dark dark brown with medium tan head. Aroma is wood, vanilla, bourbon-like, faint alcohol and malt. Flavor is wood wood wood up front; yet balanced. Malty sweetness and vanilla notes cut the wood and mellow it out. Finish is lingering malt and wood with some vanilla and spice notes. Could not believe this is 12%, really easy drinking and really good stuff, especially on the scale they are making it.

Dark brown with tan head. Whiskey oak, raisin, and Worcestershire aroma. Whiskey oak, roast, caramel, alcohol, and raisin flavours. Balanced and dry.

(bottle). Black color. Medium tan head. Strong malt, wood, and alcohol aromas. Strong malt and alcohol flavor with light wood. Avg duration. Slick texture. Moderate carbonation. Good lacing.