Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Bottle at OT. I got a sip from Anders and I didn’t see it poured but as it was the same bottle as omhper drank I’ll give his rating for appearance. The beer itself has a big aroma of perfueme, and exotic wood. The taste is full of spices and caramell. This is well balanced and perfect sipping beer.

Bottled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Very dark brown, minimal brown head. Spicy aroma of cinnamon and ginger, without really giving the impression of being spiced. Sweet and syrupy, full sized with lots of caramel, gingersnaps, molasses, wood and herbs. On top of that there’s white chocolate, honey, cardamom and café au lait. A powerful, complex and unusual sipping beer.

Very dark brown-black beer with a thick sticky brown head and a thick motor oil pour. Aroma is quite rich and chocolatey with a sweet cocoa note over a light dried plum/date sweetness. Raisin and demerara sugar over a soft dried cherry sweetness. Flavour is really intense... chewy and sweet with lots of cocoa and toasted malt backed by light vanilla and fruitcake. Rich toasty finish with a lingering warming spiced rum finish. Warming it up brings up cinnamon and toast over all of the other notes. Really unique and quite tasty.

Dark mahogany brown pour with a tan head. Aromas of chocolate and dried fruits - cherries and other tart berries. Round, full mouthfeel - slightly bitter - maybe from the wood - but not hoppy. Some flavors of dry, powdered unsweetened chocolate. A very interesting beer!

12oz bottle from a trade with not sure who. Pours a dark brown-black with a brown head and great lacing. Nose is of chocolate and wood. Taste is of chocolate, fruit and malt. Yum! Mouthfeel is medium-to-thick with a slight alcohol warmth. Very nice.

Bottle pours almost totally black, thin and disappearing brown head. Looks thick and viscous. Smells woody, vinous, with a touch of sweet vanilla, brown sugar. Tastes initially sweet, caramelized like burnt sugar, backed by a woody and roasty depth, and only mild bitterness. Thick but lively. Gets sweeter as it warms. Begs for some creme brulee or a cigar.

Black with a dissapating tan head. Dark fruits, vanilla, woody and roasty notes. Medium to full bodied. Totally awesome.

[bottle] Arome=coffee, mocha, pine, bubblegum, scotch tape, and notes of tobacco and raison. Opaque black with a light brown, bubbly, velvet on top. Usually I put taste before body on these ratings, but the full thick body of this beer is extreme. Velvety sweet molasses coffee chocolate dates raison. Vanilla and butterscotch woody notes. Medium carbonation, slightly salty, beautifully balance between chewy sweet and hops/black malt bitterness, but without the burnt/toasty characteristics of black malts.