Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Imperial Stout
Montreal, Canada

A rich foamy coffeeish countenance. 341 ml bottle pours a deep blackish brown with cognac edges, a thick pour with tall dense dark-tan foam that soon settles in the chalice. Smell yeast sourness over rich malt and mellow cocoa-coffee notes. Sweet-roasty-sour-coffee taste with excellent dimension and balance. Toffe malt molasses coffee... deep fruity tones are there under the coffee. Finish turns up a little dry with pretty elegant coffee and nice rounded dry hops. Languorous density and fullness.. very late vanilla on finish, great overtones. Memories of every good rich Impy I’ve ever tried, but this one has a certain integrity to the bold malty tones and the way this integrates so well with the dark roast java. Comforting and subtle for such a big bold beer, which thus makes it so very French and also leagues ahead of the plainly brazen Oaked Yeti. - ADD NOTE - cask at volo presents a bit more ash flavor, and nose. Seems to lack the same density and enveloping sexy feel. Will have to compare regular Draught tomorrow, but was disappointingly ordinaire.

11.5 ounce bottle. I must admit that I have become a pretty harsh rater for imperial stouts. I feel that one must really woo me in order to get a rating higher than a 4. This brew definitely deserves that honor. It pours a dark black color with a half finger width tan head that lingers throughout the duration of the beer. The aroma consists of coffee... and a lot of it! It may also have some hints of malt, but the coffee smell definitely masks it. The taste is also dominated by wonderful coffee hints. There is also some chocolate and roasted malts present, but is masked by the coffee again. It has a full bodied mouthfeel that leaves an excellent taste of coffee in the back of your mouth. Overall, this is an excellent brew. An absolute must-have for coffee lovers!

11.5oz bottle. Pours black with a foamy brown head. Aroma is of coffee, chocolate, caramel, dark fruit, and vanilla. Has a very dry and sweet aroma. Taste starts off very sweet with lots of expresso flavors and vanilla. Lots of creamy milk chocolate and some dark fruit in the taste. Has a nice caramel malt backbone that anchors the beer, and keeps it from being to overly sweet. Each sip finishes off with lots of dry, bitter roasted coffee and chocolate flavors. This beer is very well balanced, without having the coffee dominate the flavor. Mouthfeel is creamy without being too sticky. Carbonation helps, but this beer is definitely a sipper. Fantastic.

12 oz bottle: Nearly black in color and topped by a thin tan head. Big roasty aroma with coffee, milk chocolate and smoke all noticeable. Espresso flavors blend with some slight milky caramel sweetness and some light notes of raisin and other dark fruits. Finish is dry, bitter and roasted.

Que dire de ce classique québécois. Très bon mélange de café,chocolat et alcool qui termine très bien une soirée.

Wow. Pours jet black with a small creamy head. Aroma is obnoxious sweet and dry and coffee. Flavor is tart and bitter, with tons of dried fruit, yeast, chocolate, coffee, and roasted malt, excellent.

11.5 oz bottle. Pours black with a gorgeous thick full tan head. Aroma is, as they say, all about coffee, of course with a bit more. Very rich and fresh coffee and a nice bitter bitter chocolate cocoa bean character. Just a slight hint of dark fruit and spiciness but background to the coffee and cocoa. Flavor, well it took the coffee to another level. A definite coffee bean and black coffee sort of bitterness rides throughout but never becomes overly bitter someone, stays at the perfect level. Fantastic all around with a medium to full body and not sticky or too heavy with no hint of alcohol.

Pours a deep deep brown. Cellar, malt, roasty nose. Coffee, roast, vanilla, dark fruits taste. full body. treat.