Dieu du Ciel Déesse Nocturne

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

great aroma of burnt coffee, and malt, with a nice sweet chocolate. Flavour is very well balanced between the bitter burnt roasty coffee, and the sweet milk chocolate. Wicked stout!

Draught (6 oz. sample) at Dieu du Ciel! Deep brown-black with a persistent tan head that leaves lots of lace. Fantastic aroma of dark roasted malt with notes of coffee and cream. Soft, creamy body. Flavour of dark roasted malt, coffee, and woodsmoke, with a well-hopped finish. Possibly the best nitro-served stout I’ve had.

sampled on nitro at the brewpub. Maybe it would be better bottle conditioned or on cask, but the nitro does whip it up and perhaps subtract from the taste. Its a creamy tasty coffee, you must like coffee. Cold coffee. Cofee aroma. Lots of lace. Very smooth.

3rd of 13 tasters. Porus black with a half finger light brown head. The nose was incredible, very intense, heavenly creamy, with lots of malt. The nose almost reminded me of malted milk balls it was pretty sick. The taste is astounding, it is a killer stout, intense robust and flavorful.

Nitro draft at the brew pub. Poured jet black with a creamy 1/2 inch head, pretty much what you would expect from a Nitro pour. Aroma of maple syrup, faint coffee, burnt malts and bitter bakers chocolate. Initial flavor is weak but as it sits on your tongue the flavor intensifies some with some burnt malts, bitter chocolate all tied together with an earthiness. Good stuff but how can you have a stout at DDC and even think that it can compare to the Nectar of the Gods Peche Mortel??

Engine oil dark with a dense tan head. Coffee and toffee are present in both the aroma and taste. A sliky smooth velvety stout.

Medium creamy beige-brown lasting head with a fringe of larger bubbles. Seemingly opaque black body. Faint milky roasty aroma. Sweetish dry milky licorice and burnt almonds taste with nutty metallic notes. Beautiful balance and very soft moufhfeel. Dry licorice, nuts, and metal aftertaste with strong burnt almonds character. Wonderful session beer; great stout interpretation. (0.275l draft.)

On tap at the brewpub, visited June 23 2007 with a big group of friends (no fellow rateberrieans though). In the dimness of the pub this looked black, with an almond coloured head. Rich coffee and chocolate malt aroma, same flvours on the palate, medium mouthfeel, dry earthy finish. A solid representation of the style, but nothing surprising in this one.