Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Montreal, Canada

Bottle 341 ml
Appearance: light cloudiness on dark amber red base. Mid lightly tanned head. Ring of lace.3+
Nose: Clean fresh forward hop oriented nose. Plenty of citrus, alpha acid with caramel malty bottom. Light hint of berry fruit. 8-
Flavor/Palate : Chewy bitterness , citric with touch of twig in it , amber , caramel and bit of Munich malt. Hop tartness with slight alcohol feel at far end. Substantial IPA which is rarity in this country. Solid work.

Feb 2004: Nicely hoppy-piney nose, though it’s a bit weak. Creamy head, dark and unfiltered. Flavors of apricots, spices (this was DDC’s spice-fest evening, after all) including tarragon. Hops heavy at the finish; dry. I don’t think that IPAs are one of DDC’s specialties, but this was nice and fit well with the other beers of the evening. 6/4/7/3/13 3.3

April 2005: more pungency and floral qualities to the aroma, touches of honey and citrus...fuller, gorgeous body, with delicate oaken characteristics vying with a sweet orange acidity...very creamy, yet the bitterness never lets go. Rating is for this sample.

Bottle. Pine and citruspeel nose. Clear amber, creamy golden head. Delicate resiny hops on maple sirup. Light smoke, peach. Mellow light sparkly chewy mouthfeel. Peach retronasal.

330 ml. bottle. Dark amber color with a significant beige head. Aroma of roasted caramel, citrus and resin. Medium body with creamy carbonation. It tastes really fresh. The roasted malt is there, but the hop seems to overcome it. I’m not saying it’s unbalanced, but I’m not saying it’s balanced. The finish is both sweet and bitter. I am saying it is absolutely delicious. Works for my mouth.

This beer is a brownish-orange color with a medium thick and foamy beige head that dissipates steadily. Rings of lacing on the glass. Hoppy aroma with notes of citrus and bready malt. Medium-bodied and moderately bitter with citrusy hops, malt and touches of grain. The finish is resiny hops with a lingering bitterness left over. Straightforward and good IPA through and through.

From the cask. Pours a lightly cloudy deep golden with a lasting whipped head. Aroma is lightly grassy with some appropriate, if not a little light, piney and resinous grapefruity hops. The body is on the heavier side of the style. The flavors were very full of floral hop and yeasty esters. The character of the malts and yeast is decidedly english. The finish is bitter but not in the way that Americans would expect. The hop varieties are the only thing keeping this from being an excellent English C.C. IPA. This was served excellently and was a treat but they need to vamp up the bittering hops and lower the mash temp to get a dryer beer IMO.

Bottle. Rich copper-amber beer with a nice dark cream coloed head. Grapefruit and caramel aroma with a bit of summer fruit and woodsiness. Nice grapefruit, pine, woodsy flavor with backing malt. Nice bitterness. Grapefruit, pine, caramel lingers. More to it than a pure PNW hop bomb. Tea or maybe begemot starts to show up and really come forward as you drink more.

Poured a clear red-copper color with a medium sized off-white head. The aroma is has some light citrus hop to it with some floral notes behind that. Mild caramel malt. Mix of malt with pine and floral hop notes. Mild bitterness on a dry finish. Light-medium bodied.