New Favorite Brew...

[Recusit8m]

Hi all, just had my first draft Dogfish Palo Santo Marron...What an amazing beer...Very hearty at 12% but extremely drinkable...Little on the pricey end but great malty flavor with a hint of alcohol heat on the back end...Kinda floats thru the olfactory...Nice caramel and vanilla hints...If you have the opporitunity seek it out and enjoy it

 

[Hound_Dog]

I have access to some good chips of Palo Santo wood and thought of toasting some to age a beer on. The smell of the wood alone is amazing, but strong. I'm kinda worried that it'd be easy to overdo.

 

[Beernip]

This has to be my favorite dogfish ale brew. It's just a great beer and would love to try to reproduce it.

 

[dasBuhbuh]

sam is one crazy dude. he spent something like a couple million dollars to have a 10k gallon aging barrel made out of that wood.

 

[Hound_Dog]

I could believe it. Palo Santo wood is crazy expensive.

 

[corvax13]

This is also one of my recent favorite beers - very drinkable, and the alcohol is very well masked... it will creep up on ya after a couple though!

 

[agusus]

That has been my favorite beer, or in my top 3, for about a year now.

There's a great writeup in The New Yorker on it:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/24/081124fa_fact_bilger

sam is one crazy dude. he spent something like a couple million dollars to have a 10k gallon aging barrel made out of that wood.

It wasn't a couple million dollars, it was about $140,000. (According to Sam in The New Yorker article).