Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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UPDATED: AUG 29, 2008 Draft at Rehobeth Beach, served in a snifter. The board says its 14% and 35 IBUs. Pours deep brown with a nice frothy brown head. Aroma of wood mulch, nutshells, and caramel. Soft carbonation in the mouthfeel. Initial brown ale flavor of brown sugar and caramel, some hints of cocoa, but then it quickly gets overpowered by the alcohol. Warming and dry woody flavor on the finish. Boy, this beer had a lot of alcoholic kick to it. I am not sure a brown ale is meant to have this type of ABV, as it really overpowers the beer. The wood aging definitely helped pull this together. However, I did enjoy this and would have no problem drinking again. This has potential to be an amazing beer.

Bottled version. Sampled at 50 degrees. Pours a deep coffee brown, almost stout like, with a one finger brown head that dissipates to a ring. Very inviting nose of cocoa powder, dark roast, and wood mulch. Short initial flavor of nuts, molasses, and roasted malts that quickly transitions to aggressive plummy and red wine flavors. Semi-dry and oaky finish is warming with a strong vodka like alcohol presence (not quite as aggressive as the initial draft version). I am going to bump the aroma from 6 to 8 and the overall from 14 to 15.

Dark black pour released every aroma in the bottle into the room. The gravity is almost too smooth, as a person could drink one down before they knew what they were doing! Rich character and a fine finish mark this as the next age of brewing, just like the bottle says :)

Drank from a 12l ouncer. Poured to a deep chocolate brown, almost black in color. Nice roasted malty taste with subtle burnt wood as well as vanilla and raisen flavorings. Very sweet at the top, but very enjoyable. Tasted like a fine porter.A very smooth and well balanced ale.

Third beer at the Bottleworks Cellar Tasting for Seattle Beer Week. Batch 1. Pours black with no head. Smell is toffee, coffee, licorice, tobacco. Taste is wood, nutty, coffee, roast. Amazing to get two different beers in smell and taste, completely masks the 12 percent. Great beer, aged or not.

Tap. Very dark with cocoa dissipating head. Smells very syrupy and a little chocolaty and warm. Liqueur like- sweet. Thick and warming.

A - Pours a dark brown-black color with a finger of frothy chocolate colored head. The head fades down fairly slowly leaving behind some nice lace. S - Aroma is a mix of molasses, vanilla, smoke, roasted chocolate and caramel malts, black licorice, wood, a touch of dark fruit, and a bit of booze. T - Starts off with some molasses, vanilla, roasted chocolate malts, and a touch of sweet dark fruits. Through the middle, some smoke and licorice come through with some wood and some more roasted chocolate malts. The finish is a mix of smoke, licorice, vanilla, wood, cocoa, coffee, dark fruit, and a touch of booze. M - Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Feel smooth with a slightly thick sweet, smoky, and warming finish. D - Very drinkable. Different and excellent take on a big brown ale. I like the smoke and wood flavors in the beer with the complexity of the rest of the flavors.

dark brown with small head. sweet and boozy. there is quite a bit of flavor, but unfortunately, most of it is alcohol. harsh.

355ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown, with a brown head. Massive aroma, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, licorice, tar, smoke. Sweet, full bodied, high bitterness, creamy CO2. Solid, rich taste, licorice, dark chocolate, spices, coffee, ashes. (2012-05-05)

Pours thick and viscuous. Opaque brown with a tan head. The barrels are evident on the nose showing a nutty aromatic. Full bodied with tobacco and coffee flavors. Too much heat on the finish.

Over a year old bottle. Poured a dark brown, bordering on black. Thin dark brown head, went to a thin film and collar. Nose is wood, vanilla, carmel, dark fruits, and sweet malts. Port like nose. Taste follows nose but the brown ale does appear more. Just more beefed up. Medium feel and heavy body. More port or sherry like. Dry wooded finish. A bit too sweet but nice. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

12oz bottle poured into a large Duvel tulip glass. Had this stashed away for the last 9 months or so. Pours a dark stout like black with a cocoa colored head with a slight hint of lacing. Aroma is wood, cherries, yeast and some caramel. Smooth taste along the same lines as the aroma with a hint of chocolate. No alcohol burn at all, at 12% abv this can sneak up on you and put you out.