Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Draught. Pours a dark brown blackish color with a small brown head. Nose of chocolate, woody, vanilla, nuts and caramel. Initial taste is toasted with caramel woodiness over the mouth. Mid palate displays some vanilla/wood with a smokey background. Finishing with above average palate duration. Flavor is good but looking for more. Body is light. The 12% is masked beautifully.

Location: 12 oz Bottle, purchased at Gilly’s Jan ’09

Aroma: Huge mix of flavors, scents, sweet, malty, woody
Appearance: Dark brown, thin head
Flavor: Almost as complex as the nose, toasted malts mix well with the sweetness and the woodiness
Palate: Relatively long lasting finish, full body
Overall Impression: Complex and interesting, really different then your average beer. Kind of drinks like a strong Porter, but really hard to compare to anything I can think of. Certainly something I would suggest to any adventurous beer drinker.

[Bottle] Pours very dark brown with a fairly short-lived brown head. Aroma is very nice with notes of semi-sweet chocolate, some vanilla, tapioca, and a touch of anise. Really enjoyable and close to a 10. The taste is not as good as the aroma, is still very nice. A fair amount of bitterness, but largely it is dominated by toasted malt and a little chocolate. Good mouthfeel, with a fairly long finish that seems to show more of the roasted malt character the longer it goes--almost a little ashy at times. Overall this is unique and more stoutlike in taste than most brown ales that I have had, but regardless is enjoyable and well crafted.

Wonderful dark beer with a think long lasting head. Very complex nose, lots of overripe fig, alcohol, hops and a hint of pine? taste brings it all together, alcohol wasn’t over powering. very good beer.

Bottle in a hotel room in Bruxelles. Black coloured with a huge beige head. Fruity and light roasted aroma of chocolate and dried fruits. Fruity and roasted flavour of chocolate, liquorice, hops and dried fruits with notes of alcohol. Warming alcoholic finish.

Bottle pours a near black, dark chocolate brown color with a thin tan head. Sweet, malty, woody aroma with notes of vanilla, raisins and aged leather. Wonderful rich, full flavor with lots of complexity. Winelike aftertaste with a bitter finish. A warming sensation travels down the throat and chest from the high alcohol content.

courtesy of Allen - cloudy dark brown almost black colour, little brown foam; very malty aroma of chestnuts and chocolate, biscuity; full-bodied and slightly oily, solid sweetness followed by an equally solid bitterness; long finish of chestnuts, solidly malty and toasted with a warming alcohol touch - very well-made brew

Bottle; woody aroma with 1/2 finger dark caramel head the quickly disappeared; poured dark black; deep flavor with super strong flavor of the wood which kinda turned me off a little; however got better as I let it rest; a slow drinker for me. (#10)