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Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
10513.88/5.03.87/5.0Special12%93.9Snifter, Trappist glass
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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Atom (1), Minnesota, USA
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4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/510/105/517/20
Oct 12, 2009  
Great stuff. Very distinct malty roasted flavor. Not over powering flavor and very drinkable.


 djd07 (740), Houston, Texas, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/517/20
Oct 11, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown with a small light tan head that diminishes quickly to nothing leaving decent spotty lacing along the glass. The aroma is a strong roasted malt and alcohol with chocolate and cherry. Thin mouthfeel with a roasted malt taste and chocholate and brown sugar. Alcohol well hidden making it very easy to drink. A very impressive American strong ale from Dogfish Head.


 BVery (471), Burnsville, Minnesota, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Oct 10, 2009  
BOTTLE: thick black pour, offwhite head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted coffee, and port. Medium body, taste is coffee, bourbon, and vanilla. Awesome.


 BierBauch (646), Cape Coral Waterfront Wonderland, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Sep 30, 2009  
Pours thick and a deep mahogany with a stout like creamy head. I smell chocolate, coffee and of course the wood. Picking up licorice as it warms Medium to full body like a porter or stout. tatses sweet with espresso, cocoa and dried fruit. More like a stout than an American ale. Pretty intense flavors mask the alcohol well.


 beersearcher (242), Glendale, California, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/102/513/20
Sep 29, 2009  
Dark brown and very malty. very harsh on the back end with alcohol. almost competing against the lovely malt taste.


 thewolf (5764), Kolding, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/514/20
Sep 28, 2009  
Bottle. [thank you Skortila/ceasar]
Pours deep brown with a small, staying, frothy, beige head. Lovely woody aroma, nicely roasted, chocolate, raisins, tobacco and coffee. Medium carbonation, fine lightly creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is rather sweet and sugary. Coffee, roasted, chocolate, oak, bourbon, vanilla. Warming alcohol sensation at the end. Very nice sipper, but it just a tad to sugary for my liking.


 phaleslu (522), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/517/20
Sep 28, 2009  
12 oz. bottle from Cork ’n Bottle in Covington, Kentucky. Pours almost black with a small, uneven, bubbly brown head. Aroma of wood, chocolate, dried dark fruits, coffee, brown sugar, malt, menthol. Woody flavor (the bottle doesn’t lie) with dark fruits, chocolate, vanilla, coffee, molasses, menthol. Nice balance despite the complexity. Rich, sweet, and slightly bitter, with a motor oil consistency and warming alcohol. This is an interesting, satisfying beer that I love to try with a few people.


 rickgordon (3300), Göteborg, Sweden
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Sep 28, 2009  
Bottled, SBWF 2009. Near black colour with brown head. Rich, spicy nose: fünf kräuter, menthol, eucalyptus, ginger, juniper, clove, very complex. Flavourwise like a stout with menthol och variation of x-mas herbs. Mouthfeel is very rounded. Not sure what the Palo Santo wood did to this beer, except for an elegant woody touch along with a mature flavour.



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