Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:42 pm

I was at the Anderson's in Maumee last night and picked up what might just be the most delicious beer I've ever tasted. And that's saying something!

Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron is named after the wood it's aged on, from the Palo Santo tree ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulnesia_sarmientoi ), a very close "relative" to the tree from which Frankincense is derived.

I'm usually a lover of hoppy brews. I love a beer so hoppy it'll clear your sinuses, but this is NOT that kind of beer. It's rich, smooth, has a big mouth feel, a chocolatey smooth head on it, and it's just absolutely fantastic. It's VERY high alcohol, but at 12% ABV, it doesn't have much of an alcohol flavor.

Dogfish head spent hundreds of thousands of dollars building the largest wooden secondary fermenters in America since the age of prohibition. The beer is aged in these hand-built, non-pitched (no special lining) vats made of the Palo Santo. The flavors imparted by the wood are subtle, but unmistakable. This beer is huge, rich, and oh, so smooth!!!

Also of note, the 4-pack came with a DVD chronicling the story of how it came to be, how the wood was found, used, and some great insight into my favorite brewery!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Occasio ... /index.htm

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 4:58 pm

Holy crap - there's a distributor that carries this stuff a mile out of the way on my way home from work! Thanks for the tip - I think I'll be making a pit stop one night this week.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:01 pm

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:Holy crap - there's a distributor that carries this stuff a mile out of the way on my way home from work! Thanks for the tip - I think I'll be making a pit stop one night this week.

Awesome! Let me know what you think of it... I don't think you'll be disappointed.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:30 pm

Hmm...sounds pretty interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it.

VDub26Falcon · Post by **VDub26Falcon** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:44 pm

I. Love. Beer.

PGY Tiercel · Post by **PGY Tiercel** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:53 am

Alright This better be a good beer. Picked up a bottle of it tonight. Looking forward to trying it tomorrow

PGY Tiercel · Post by **PGY Tiercel** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:23 am

Pretty good Grant. Deffinately a big smooth, choclatey taste. Alcohol wasn't too bad, though I felt it kind of came back up through the nose of bit stronger than I like. Not one that I could drink more than 1 of in a night. (thats probably a "good" thing)