Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable

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

Bottled. Cloudy copper color, medium off-white head. Aroma of soft and fruity hop. Bit bitter malty taste. Soft and decent ipa.

Caramel colored with an off white head. Aroma could be bigger and has caramel, pine, and some roasted malt. Flavor is caramel, fruit, grapefruit, and pine. It is balanced toward the sweet side. Feel is a bit powdery but otherwise is medium bodied. Finish is floral. Very nice!

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, nuts, wood, chocolate malts, caramel, and resin. Poured dark amber in color with a large, creamy, dense, tan head that lasted throughout. Hazy. Sparkling. Good lacing. Flavor is lightly bitter. Tastes of hops, malts, caramel, resin, wood, and more hops. I do not detect the pine that most people seem to taste in this beer. Medium body. Chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Dry hoppy finish.

Bottled. A slightly hazy red-amber beer with a medium tan head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy - with both notes of grass and grapefruit. The flavor is sweet and very hoppy again with notes of grass and grapefruit, but also pine needles, leading to a very bitter finish.

Rerate (7-3-7-3-14=3.4): Strong floral, lemon/lime hop character in the nose over sweet malt character. Clear copper coloured body is topped by a decent white head that recedes to a partial cover with some lace. Very sweet malt character with lingering lime citrus hops. Sharp and pronounced bitterness verges on harsh at times. Dry medium body with moderate carbonation. Bottle (Gift, Oct-07) sampled with Beershine and Oakes. Thanks, MartinT!

Original rating (7-5-7-4-13=3.6): Strong citrusy American hop nose. Off-white head on caramel coloured beer. This looks good. Big hop flavour with some underlying malt sweetness. Flavours seem to arrive in sequence rather than being blended. Mouthfeel is as thick as one would normally expect from this pub. On tap.

Nice amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is mostly citrus notes, lots of floral hops. Flavour is bitter, some very concentrated pinapple taste which took the foreground. Medium carbonation and body. Nice, though a little uni-dimensional. Draught.

Sampled at 08 vt brewers fest. Pours a medium amber with a beigh head. Aroma is hoppy with pine, citrus, grass and a hint of caramel. Flavor is sweet with caramel, light fruit, citrus and some herbal notes with a medium body and has a bitter hoppy finish.

12 oz bottle from WLV Liquors. Pours a hazed orange with a off white head that fades to a thin layer. Malt and floral notes constitute the greatest part of the beer. Aged caramel malts and brown sugar with floral hops that are ever so slightly soapy in the nose. The flavor profile matches the aroma. A decent amount of bitterness that carries through the finish leaving the tongue dry from the floral hops. Not bad but not that enjoyable either. Floral hops aren’t my favorite bittering hop, I think they could have done better with a different varietal. Especially if they are trying for the "American IPA".