Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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

Bottle shared with Mspindler while watching UFC 97... Dark dark brown with a mocha head when you swirl it around..Smell is of dark fruits , raisins, vanilla and alcohol.. Taste: I swear I can taste that tree when i drink this. Hints of vanilla and alcohol... This is one I want to buy a couple bottles and revisit in a few years.

12 oz’r brought to our KW tasting by a non RBer. pours dark brownish red with a small tan head. aroma of caramel, wood, vanilla, very sweet. the flavour is simular. some fruitiness. a bit muddled but enjoyable. id like to try this one again. thanks for the shared Mat.

12oz bottle. Pours black with a thin mocha head. Aroma of wood with chocolate and caramel malt. Initial flavor is slightly sweet, consisting of grapes, raisins, currants, caramel and chocolate malt, and a hint of vanilla. Finish is smoky wood and earth with pleasant warming alcohol. Medium bodied with moderate light carbonation and fizz. There’s definitely a wine-like quality to this beer. Love it.

12oz bottle at our KW group tasting thanks to Mat. I was interested to try this but ended up pretty disappointed, and it had nothing to do with having just tried the Dark Lord. Poured out a dark mahogany with little head. Right from the aroma I could tell this was just not going to be very good. It has that same damn wet paper/pen ink/whatever you want to call it synthetic boozyness that is so prevalent in the World Wide Stout, which I absolutely hate. I also hate how it’s hard to describe and I seem to percieve it a lot differently than most other people so it’s hard to get them to understand how much I hate beers that have that aroma/flavour. The flavour on this one is pretty pathetic, popsicle sticks with way too much residual sugar and toffee malt. Booze. Like a lame attempt at an Imperial Stout. A bit of melon as well. Yuk. I’m appreciative to have tried this, but I would not drink this again were it offered and it really is just not very impressive. Why does everything but the 60 Minute from this brewery suck?

Wow. Poured black with a brown head. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, and fruit. Some mellow bourbon flavor with a hitn of vanilla and finished with some smoke and fruit. Smooth. Can’t believe it’s 12%.

Poured a dark dark black color with great chocolate head. Aroma was dark fruits, chocolate some smokeyness to it. Flavor was much the same smoke came out more in the flavor. Amazing couldn’t taste alcohol very well balanced.

Nutty marzipan, vanilla and coconut figure prominently in the nose along with vinous dark pit fruits and dark malts. Opaque black body is topped by a low but long lasting tan-brown fine bubbled head that leaves some light lacing. Complex flavour marries intense sweetness with strong dark fruits, some dark malt character, fairly pronounced bitterness and vanilla and banana notes in the finish. Alcohol is notable mainly for its warming effect. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. Tulip glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle purchased at Brewery Creek in Mar-09.

Re-rate: Bottle, this beer is aging terribly. The funky wood notes have turned purfumey and dominate the pallate. As the alcohol burn has subsided with age so have all of the crisp tight flavors of fruit and sugar. It’s just a sluggy aroma bomb of a 12% brown now. Original: Bottle, the aroma of this beer just keeps getting stronger with age. The sour sweet wood fresh cut wood smell dominates the nose and just a hint of malty bread in the background. This beer pours a rich brown that turns amber at the corners and a fluffy small off white head leaves gorgeous lacing on the glass. The flavor is of cedar and sweet malts with a rush of simple syrup alcohol soak on the middle of the tongue. I get meatly fruits like papaya and banana peel and a bit of berry tart and sweetness. Blackberry mostly. This thing is just a monster of sweet funky wood and wild fruit with lots of alcohol. I am looking forward to watching this change as it ages more and more.