Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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

Bought in Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam. Poured like crude oil with a nice small but brief tan head. Dark fruits, plum and raisins, roasted malts, wood in the aroma. The mouthfeel is complex and rich, the texture is oily and thick. Liqueric alcohol, the palo santo wood, roasted grains, some smoked flavor. Hevyweight champion beer...Insistent characteristic aftertaste... I would travel to this brewery if a can...

Thin dark brown head of fine bubbles. Kind of soapy around the edges. Rich malty aroma with some raisins, black cherry, roasted malts, caramel and some smokey wood. Color is a very dark brown with a tinge of red around the edges. Rich and roasty and bursting with flavor. Lots of roasted grains, more dark fruit and some earthy/herbal flavors. Strong alcohol presence that makes the gums tingle. Smooth and creamy palate with a bit of peaty stickyness. Finishes rich and roasty and delicious. This is a fantastic full bodied and full flavored brew that can stand with the best of them. One of the best from DFH in a long time.

Pours black very a minuscule soapy tan head. A lot in the odor, including sweet malt, caramel, some dark fruit. The taste starts off light, then ends with a building flavor of sweet malt and some oak flavor in the aftertaste that eventually fades into a distant hoppy bitterness. Interesting, complex beer.

On tap @ Toronado. Pours a black color with a small tan head. HUGE aroma, roasted malts, caramel, oaky, campfire. Very sweet and tasty, nutty, definitely malty. Can pick out the effects of barrel aging. Top notch.

Poured from the bottle into a snifter a dark, dark black with hints of brown. The head was beautiful with tan or brownish hints. The aroma was malty, slight wood or earth notes with some caramel and vanilla mixed in there. It is clear immediately that this would age in an awesome way. The taste is so full with dark fruits and a very unique wood like taste. It is both sweet at times and bitter - outstanding. On the palate the flavor keeps developing for quite a while. Just really nice.

12oz bottle pours a very nice pitch black with a thin tan head. Aroma is malty sweet, earthy, dark caramel, vanilla, dark fruit, raisins. Flavor is malty sweetness, dark caramel, oak/bourbon, dark fruit raisins alcohol. Medium/heavy mouth feel, long roasty, oaky, bitter finish. Very complex big brew, nice!

Drinking a bottle that I forgot about in a cooler for a couple of months. The cap is super rusty, the label is mostly worn off, and there’s rust-colored goop underneath the cap. It pours deep brown/black with a dark brown head. Nose is full of dusty dry cocoa powder, similar bakers chocolate, but with a fairly high level of alcohol noticed. There are also some notes of charred plum and chocolate covered nuts, but never comes off as sweet. Flavor is rich cocoa covered plums with a bready note that resembles fresh baked brownies. The alcohol is well hidden, very minimal amounts detected.. soft and silky over the middle, drying and turning to bitter cocoa powder in the finish. Very good stuff. Get a brain marrons.

Poured from a 12-oz bottle an almost black color, which was surprising since this states it is a brown ale. Smell of sweet caramel malt, vanilla, oak and alcohol. Taste was strong on the alcohol. You can also taste the oak, bourbon and some raison.