Palo Santo Marron
The beer is brewed in America's largest wooden barrels at 10,000 gallons. The unique flavor here comes from the Paraguayan Palo Santo wood which has been used for wine making. The beer is classified as a brown ale, but at 12% abv it is a strong brown ale aged with the palo wood. I love oak-aged wine, so I love the wooden flavor here. Pretty much black in color, pours a really thick head, high alcohol flavor, nice wood flavor, high malty and roasty flavor, some sweetness, choclate notes, caramel, and vanilla here. Definitely a bold beer that you can only sip. So unique and complex. 5/5 Excellent!
I am still new to pairing food and beer. Even though I wrote out a basic guide, I still haven't had a whole lot of experience actually specifically pairing. On dogfish.com, they recommend steak, cajun food, chorizo, and farmhouse cheddar.
The basics of pairing a food is you want the flavors to work in harmony and work together. If you have a mild dish, you want a light and mild beer. The palo santo marron is a very bold, very flavorful beer so I am going to need a dish that compliments it. I have had the beer before and I was looking at the idea from dogfish.com about the chorizo. A beer this complex is going to definitely need something spicy, smokey, bold and rich.
I have almost 3 dishes working together here to create a perfect partner for a perfect beer. First we have the smokey, rich, but mild red beans & rice, then grilled spicy, smokey, well seasoned chorizo sausage. To top it off, spicy Sauteed peppers and onions with hot sauce, salsa, sazzon, cumin, pepper, parika, garlic powder, salt, chile powder. Beer and cheese can be paired like wine and cheese. Dogfish.com recommended a farmhouse cheddar, so I decided what better way to complete this dish than with shredded sharp cheddar cheese.
When you perfectly pair food and beer together it can be magical. Tasting the strong beer with that nice wood flavor and that little bit of sweetness along with a spicy, rich,smokey flavors of the chorizo dish was out of this world. I would eat the food and taste each of the 3 dishes together and then sip the beer and taste those flavors, back and forth, working together. After finishing this perfect pair, I felt my whole body was satisfied like I had just gotten a full body massage. After that great experience with pairing, I cannot wait to do it again with another perfect pair!
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