Milton, Delaware
Palo Santo Marron
Style: Imperial Brown Ale
Availability: Limited - Rotating
Format: 12oz - 4pk
ABV: 12.0%
IBU's: 50
Bottle text & Info:
An unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented brown ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity unique to this beer comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities.
This beer is a 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty brown ale aged on the Palo Santo wood. It was a huge hit at our Rehoboth Beach brewpub when first released in November of 2006, Palo went into full production at the end of 2007.
At 10,000 gallons, our Palo Tank is the largest wooden brewing vessel built in America since before Prohibition (and we have two same-sized Oak tanks right next to it).
Tasting Notes:
Pours a mean lookin' brown, nearly black. thick mocha colored head with think chunks clinging to the glass. Smells of vanilla bean and brown sugar. Delicious combination of caramel and vanilla with subtle gingerbread notes interlaced with some dark fruit and intriguing wood notes that are more like cedar than they are oak. Pronounced molasses coupled with a creamy mouthfeel followed by warming alcohol. A nice special occasion, wood aged brown ale from the dogfish. i don't know if they had to go all the way to Paraguay for the wood...but that's how they do things over at dogfish. unnecessarily big.
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