Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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

Brown black pour with little thin head. Interesting vanilla caramel nose with a touch of ginger and spicy woodsyness. Chewy sugary body, which displays vanilla malts and a fruited sugared character. Viscous quality helps to aid to the medicinal quality of the alcohol, which is warming but well concealed in the end. Not too bad oveall.

12oz bottle poured into a "hop yard" stemmed glass. This smells very strong. The first sip is heavy and smooth like dark red wine. The finish has a quick snap of alcohol and bitter chocolate. The subtle woody flavors appear as it warms up. This and the double bastard are the best 2 "American strong" ales that I have had. Yum.

Poured pretty much black with little brown head. Complex aroma of black cherry, cocoa, malts and alcohol. You can really taste the wood in this one, very nice full body. Malty flavor with lots of cocoa and cherry leather. A little syrupy but very well balanced for the huge ABV.

Aroma was fully of natural scents: smoked wood, pine, grass. Appearance was nearly opaque with a nice mocha head. Flavor had chocolate, caramel, ripe fruit and brown sugar. Creamy palate to smooth things out. Pretty good offering.

Thanks bro for hooking this up! Pours a deep dark brown color with little tannish head. Aroma is of dark fruit, rum soaked cherries, light wood and chocolate and alcohol. Taste is rum soak cherries, cold medicine, and alcohol. Light carbonation and alcohol is pretty well hidden. A very interesting and tasty brew.

Thanks alexsdad06 for this extra! Pours a pitch black with a thin off-white ring. Aroma is wood, smoke, roasts, chocolate, and dark fruit; figs, raisins. This is almost part smoked, part barley wine or old ale. Taste is dark cherry, smoke, chocolate, alcohol, and some woodiness. Mouthfeel is rich and sticky and leaves some nice warmth in your gut. Very interesting in aroma and taste. Not too shabby.

Bottle from a wine store in Princeton-Pours really dark brown, black, a lot darker than I expected for some reason, with a small dense tan head that doesn’t seem like it will last for too long. the nose is intense, and extremely pleasant. Strong notes of vanilla, chocolate pudding, creme brulee, lots of dessert aromas. It was the type of beer that when you opened and poured it, you could just admire it’s scent without wanting to drink it. It was that good... After about 2 minutes of smelling, and staring, and going ’wow’, I finally started to sip it. Perfect mouthfeel, sticky, strange mid palate bitterness that seems to be more imparted from a roasted flavour than hop. Finish lingered for a while leaving you wanting a little bit more. Smooth overtones of chocolate, roast coffee, and a strong nutty finish. This beer was a masterpiece.

Beer is a very, very dark black color with hints of dark red and a thin tan head First aroma that hits you when pouring is a strong alcohol and roasted barley but upon closer sniffing you get a very dark prune nose and some light woody notes as well. Flavor has alcohol and prune up front with the roasted malt middle and ends with a Merlot flavor. Beer is very thick but smooth and I noticed it’s very sticky when you get it on your hands. Alcohol is definitely there and the flavors really work well together with the heavy, thick brew.