Dogfish Head - Palo Santo Marron beer (Delaware) - Holly beer

I love visit "Beer Bistro" bar at Younge and King street because of their perfect beer selection.
The beer viriety at this bar is pretty impressive.

I tried once "Dogfish Head" - Palo Santo Marron (12% alc) for 12.65 CAD per bottle.

Barman told me that it is very good beer and I am lucky to try it because it is discontinuing in Ontario and their bar has only couple bottles. I asked "Why you don't have such beer anymore?" and the answer was that brewery is very popular and cannot handle such demand. There is no import to Canada anymore - al least today.

What so special about that beer? The bottle had following description:

An unfiltered, unfettered, unprecedented.
Brown Ale aged in handmade wooden brewing vessels. The caramel and vanilla complexity
unique to this ale comes from the exotic Paraguayan Palo Santo wood from which these tanks were crafted. At 10,000 gallons each, these are the largest wooden brewing vessels built in America since before Prohibition. It's all very exciting. We have wood. You have too.


Palo Santo (literally Spanish: “holy wood”) - holy beer from holy wood!!!!

The wood of the Palo Santo is one of the most heavy and hard, his extraordinary strength is mainly due to deposits of calcium oxalate crystals and the content of 15% resin between the fibers, which confer resistance to fungal attack and insects. De la madera se puede obtener un aceite esencial conocido como guayacol, que se emplea en la industria de perfumes. The wood can obtain an essential oil known as guaiacol, which is used in the perfume industry. Moreover, it’s so dense that it’s one of the few types of wood on the planet that will not float on water and referred as an ironwood. Here is picture of 10,000 gallons barrels, which was mentioned at beer description:

I would recommend try that awesome beer if you can find it Canada.
Here is a list of available sorts of "Dogfish head", which you could try at "Beer bistro":

1) Fort (15% alc.) - 28.50 CAD/750ml
2) Red & White (10% alc.) - 32 CAD/750ml
3) Black & Blue (10% alc.) - 32 CAD/750ml
4) Raison D'Extra (16.7% alc.) - 18.50 CAD/355ml
5) Palo Santo Marron (12% alc.) - 12.65 CAD/355ml
6) 120 Minute IPA (13.8% alc.) - 24 CAD/355ml

Here is brewery web site:
http://www.dogfish.com/