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Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron - American Strong Ale

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale

Milton, Delaware USA

bottled
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on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
10223.88/5.03.87/5.0Special12%93.8Snifter, Trappist glass
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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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 aubreya (676), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Aug 31, 2008  
It poured a dark chocolate. The head was dark tan and thin. The aroma was vanilla, chocolate, and butterscotch. The flavor was dry, rich, cocoa, vanilla, and grass. The palate was smooth and velvety. The finish was warm and sweet.


 emacgee (1859), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/517/20
Aug 31, 2008  
It poured a dark chocolate. The head was dark tan and thin. The aroma was vanilla, chocolate, and butterscotch. The flavor was dry, rich, cocoa, vanilla, and grass. The palate was smooth and velvety. The finish was warm and sweet.


 NDbeerdrinker (164), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 31, 2008  
Bottle. Pours black with a reddish brown head. Aroma is of sweet black cherry, licorice. Taste is woody, licorice, and dark chocolate. bourbon (?). Sweetness on the palate is evident. Honestly this tastes like a good cherry cordial.


 zebracakes (1214), Washington DC, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Aug 31, 2008  
12 oz. bottle. Pours opaque black, thin tan head. Aroma is anise, molasses, chocolate, pine. Smells very syrupy, like port. Flavor is chocolate, licorice, woody, coffee, molasses, caramel, vanilla: quite complex. This is very chocolate truffle like, but not too sweet. I recommend this as an after dinner sipper.


 leninthedesert (112), Nevada, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 30, 2008  
Extremely unique beer from Dogfish Head. Many different flavors coming at you at once, yet they all seem to work together perfectly. Roasty, toast malt flavor, cedar, spice, yeast and earthy notes. Great beer...pass me another!


 jcr (1136), Jasper, Indiana, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Bottle. Small, frothy tan head that diminishes to a rim of small bubbles. Dark brown to black body. Malts and alcohol dominate the nose. Molasses, caramel, toasted grain, sugar, vanilla, whiskey barrel. The flavor is very sweet and only lightly bitter. The finish is moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Alcohol warming in the back of the throat. Light taste of cardboard and distinct tastes of licorice and especially tobacco. Full body with a syrupy texture. Plenty of carbonation. Didn’t enjoy this all that much because of the thick sweetness followed by a finish of bitter cardboard.


 Mette (224), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Igen er det Bager som er på banen med en god øl til klubben. Næsten sort med er rødligt skær, næsten intet skum. Let syrlig, mørk ristet, tørrede frugter, bitter choko, brændt, puddersukker. Blød og runs. ligesom bager.


 allfreej (358), Louisville, Kentucky, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/105/517/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Bottled on 02/11/2008. Poured dark brown, viscous-looking, brown lacy head. Nose was dark fruit, chocolate, raisins. Flavor was vanilla, coffee, chocolate, wood, slightly sweet. Finish was slightly dry, subtle alcohol notes. Mouthfeel was pleasingly carbonated, balancing the viscousness of the beer.



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