Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with a small light tan head that diminishes quickly to nothing leaving decent spotty lacing along the glass. The aroma is a strong roasted malt and alcohol with chocolate and cherry. Thin mouthfeel with a roasted malt taste and chocholate and brown sugar. Alcohol well hidden making it very easy to drink. A very impressive American strong ale from Dogfish Head.

BOTTLE: thick black pour, offwhite head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted coffee, and port. Medium body, taste is coffee, bourbon, and vanilla. Awesome.

Pours thick and a deep mahogany with a stout like creamy head. I smell chocolate, coffee and of course the wood. Picking up licorice as it warms Medium to full body like a porter or stout. tatses sweet with espresso, cocoa and dried fruit. More like a stout than an American ale. Pretty intense flavors mask the alcohol well.

Dark brown and very malty. very harsh on the back end with alcohol. almost competing against the lovely malt taste.

Bottle. [thank you Skortila/ceasar]
Pours deep brown with a small, staying, frothy, beige head. Lovely woody aroma, nicely roasted, chocolate, raisins, tobacco and coffee. Medium carbonation, fine lightly creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is rather sweet and sugary. Coffee, roasted, chocolate, oak, bourbon, vanilla. Warming alcohol sensation at the end. Very nice sipper, but it just a tad to sugary for my liking.

12 oz. bottle from Cork ’n Bottle in Covington, Kentucky. Pours almost black with a small, uneven, bubbly brown head. Aroma of wood, chocolate, dried dark fruits, coffee, brown sugar, malt, menthol. Woody flavor (the bottle doesn’t lie) with dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, molasses, menthol. Nice balance despite the complexity. Rich, sweet, and slightly bitter, with a motor oil consistency and warming alcohol. This is an interesting, satisfying beer that I love to try with a few people.

Bottled, SBWF 2009. Near black colour with brown head. Rich, spicy nose: fünf kräuter, menthol, eucalyptus, ginger, juniper, clove, very complex. Flavourwise like a stout with menthol och variation of x-mas herbs. Mouthfeel is very rounded. Not sure what the Palo Santo wood did to this beer, except for an elegant woody touch along with a mature flavour.

Newer Bottle. Pitch black with a thin, bubbly tan head. Aroma of chocolate, dark fruit, wood, a bit of coffee and cream. Also raisins. Woody, chocolate and fruit flavor. Cherries and raisins. Coffee and vanilla. Very woody and roasted. Very fruity into the mid-palate, and quite sweet, with vanilla, then this is all washed away by alcohol, which leads to a well-roasted, bitter finish. The mid-palate fruitiness is very nice—approaching a real German schnapps or a grappa. Lovely palate, thick and smooth but not too heavy. Barely carbonated. Fantastic and complex. Best beer I’ve had from them to date.