Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Dark black in color, with a nice foamy head. Great smell of wood and chocolate. Surprisingly very drinkable considering color and full bodied taste. Beer almost seems like you can chew it. Very delightful.

Pours black with a cascading head that lingers and leaves nice spiderweblike lacing... Aroma of wood, alcohol, chocolate, rubbing alcohol, roasted malts, and coffee... Taste is sweet and alcoholy with subtle hints of the flavors from the aroma... full bodied with a lingering woody finish... Quite complex, very good, but it left me wanting something, or possibly wanting something less...

Pours more negra than marron, thin head with just a touch of retention, and what a nose! Huge, heady aroma displays leafy herbs with brown sugar and plum pudding, smoke, and wood. Flavour is dominated by figs, brown sugar, wood and smoke, and the mouthfeel is appropriately smooth and rich for this kind of high gravity beer though there was some interference from some tingly carbonation that I could have done without. But whatever. This beer is a knockout.

Draft at underground blues. Lots of sweet brown sugar, sugary dates and figs and a good amount of wood. Alcohol is hidden well. Good beer.

Brown black pour with little thin head. Interesting vanilla caramel nose with a touch of ginger and spicy woodsyness. Chewy sugary body, which displays vanilla malts and a fruited sugared character. Viscous quality helps to aid to the medicinal quality of the alcohol, which is warming but well concealed in the end. Not too bad oveall.

12oz bottle poured into a "hop yard" stemmed glass. This smells very strong. The first sip is heavy and smooth like dark red wine. The finish has a quick snap of alcohol and bitter chocolate. The subtle woody flavors appear as it warms up. This and the double bastard are the best 2 "American strong" ales that I have had. Yum.

Poured pretty much black with little brown head. Complex aroma of black cherry, cocoa, malts and alcohol. You can really taste the wood in this one, very nice full body. Malty flavor with lots of cocoa and cherry leather. A little syrupy but very well balanced for the huge ABV.

Aroma was fully of natural scents: smoked wood, pine, grass. Appearance was nearly opaque with a nice mocha head. Flavor had chocolate, caramel, ripe fruit and brown sugar. Creamy palate to smooth things out. Pretty good offering.