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Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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98
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bottled
common

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common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
10373.88/5.03.88/5.0Special12%94.4Snifter, Trappist glass
Commercial Description:
Big Brown Ale aged on palo santo wood from Paraguay. This beer is a 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty brown ale aged on the wood of the Palo Santo tree from Paraguay. Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities. We were lucky enough to get our hands on 20 blocks of the super-dense wood and the wood was added to the ageing tank after fermentation.
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 zvikar (424), Tel-Aviv, Israel
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Oct 25, 2009  
Thanks David for sharing this one, pours brown opaque with a chocolate color small head, aroma of chocolate, grapes, raisins, cherries, burbon and wood, thick texture, flavors of coffee, cardboard, cherry liquor, scotch and bitter pleasant finish, medium bodied, alcohol is a bit too high. Nice beer


 Fratto (691), Arlington, Texas, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/512/20
Oct 25, 2009  
Bottle from Cavie. Dark brown pour. Fruit and chocolate aroma. Roasted malts, chocolate, and a little smoke flavor.


bigguns22 (97), Maryland, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/516/20
Oct 23, 2009  
Pours black with foming head like expresso. "Huge beer" best spit among friends. Complex flavers of licorice,anisitte,coffee and smoke meats. Palate lingers and leaves you fulfulled.


twindog (85), Hampstead, Maryland, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/516/20
Oct 23, 2009  
Pours black with foming head like expresso. "Huge beer" best spit among friends. Complex flavers of licorice,anisitte,coffee and smoke meats. Palate lingers and leaves you fulfulled.


spiritsbeerman (47), Nicholasville, Kentucky, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Oct 23, 2009  
A beautiful dark black with little head and minimal lacing. the carmel, chocolate ,vanilla and a roasty flavor are so well balanced. This beer is awsome, expensive but awsome.


 drseusszb200 (193), Florida, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/105/518/20
Oct 23, 2009  
pours very syrupy and very dark with no light penetration and very little head that leaves decent lacing. smells of sweet rum raisons. taste is a little fruitty and sweet to start and ends with a nice smokey taste.


acblue (52), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/104/516/20
Oct 19, 2009  
Dark brown, thick, viscous, tan head that recedes quickly but laces nicely. Lots and lots of oakiness from the bespoke palo santo. Doesn’t make much of an effort to hide its alcohol content, but that isn’t so much to its detriment.


ALCOHOLNIZM (61), WARWICK, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/517/20
Oct 18, 2009  
I WAS SLIGHTLY INTIMIDATED BY THIS BEER WHEN I RECIEVED IT FROM THE DOGFISH BREWERY IN A VARIETY PACK, NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT IS 12%ALC BUT ALSO BECAUSE IM NOT SUPER HIGH ON OAK AGED BEERS NOR IM I THAT FOND OF MALT BEVERAGES. HOWEVER, ONCE AGAIN DOGFISH HAS PLEASANTLY SUPRISED ME. THIS BEER POURS A ROUBUST BLACK WITH NO HEAD IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE FLAT SODA AND HAS A STUNNING RAISIN TYPE AROMA ALMOST LIKE A WINE. THE FLAVORS, LIKE THE SMELL AND LOOK, IS ALSO QUITE ROBUST YET NOT OVER POWERING,THE SWEET FLAVOR IS OF ROASTED MALTS, UNSWEETEND CHOCOLATE, SLIGHT VANILLA AND TANGY LICORICE WHICH IS WELL BALANCED WITH CARBONATION THAT ADDS A LITTLE BITE ON THE TOUNGE , IVE HAD A FEW OTHER BEERS THAT WERE SIMILAR TO THIS ONE (EX: THEW BEAST) AND THIS ONE IS BY FAR MORE ENJOYABLE.. NOT RECOMENDED FOR A NIGHT OUT AT THE BAR, BUT QUITE A GOOD AFTER DINNER BEER.



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