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Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel  - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
100
overall
Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Imperial Stout

Montreal, Canada

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
10014.16/5.04.15/5.0Special9.5%96Snifter
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Commercial Description:
Péché Mortel (French for "Mortal Sin") is an intensely black and dense beer with very pronounced roasted flavours. Fair trade coffee is infused during the brewing process, intensifying the bitterness of the beer and giving it a powerful coffee taste. Péché mortel is brewed to be savored; we invite you to drink it in moderation.

This stout style, high in alcohol and bitterness in order to favour preservation, was historically brewed to support the long and arduous voyage necessary to export the beer from England to Russia. The word Imperial comes from the fact that the beer was specially brewed for the Russian tsar’s court.
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 twitcher (293), framingham, Massachusetts, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/59/105/517/20
Jun 24, 2008  
bottle. Thick, opaque, heavy black pour. Surprisingly big medium brown head that foams up with no signs of clearing. Thick aromas of burnt malt and a huge dose of coffee (suprise!). Flavors of unsweetened coffee and big heavy chunks of roasted malt. Some middling bitterness hangs around too. Holds the 9.5% very well- no excessive booze heat. Finish/mouthfeel is superb- very thick, smooth, and silky on the palate. Superb coffee stout- possibly better from the bottle than previous samples from the tap??


 DarkMagus (433), San Jose, California, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/518/20
Jun 22, 2008  
It’s been a long time coming... sampled from a bottle courtesy of BitchesBrew. Thick, creamy, sticky cappuccino-like brown head. Dense, rich, malty aroma with loads of coffee/espresso, dark roasted/burnt toast graininess, a bit of a sweet molasses hint. The flavors lived up to the aroma, huge amounts of sweet rich roasty malts, coffee, molasses . Very viscous, but soft and silky sugary mouthfeel. Pretty lasting, inconclusive finish. Very little (to no) astringency. A pretty serious beer, very good, very well-made, but you have to be in the mood for this blast of COFFEE.


 MaltOMeal (642), Land of Sugar, Texas, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/516/20
Jun 21, 2008  
11.5oz bottle thanks to Kempleton (BA). Pours black as outer space witha lovely light-brown head. The head hung around to produce great lacing. Nose was of roast coffee and chocolate. Taste was roast coffee, chocolate, fruit and somewhat ashy. Mouthfeel was medium, but more of a wet feel, not the usual dry chalkiness often found in impy stouts.


 merlin48 (509), New Tazewell, Tennessee, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Jun 20, 2008  
11.5 oz bottle pours inky and opaque with an impressive brown head that strews some satiny sheets of lace on the snifter. Aroma is more subtle than expected but boasts black coffee, chocolate and black currants. Rich coffee dominates the taste, joined by lots of bittersweet chocolate and a fruity black currant note. Alcohol is concealed very well. One of the better coffee stouts around.


 FatPhil (3446), Espoo, Finland
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Jun 20, 2008  
355ml bottle (Pikkulintu, Helsinki)
Jet black, large tan head, settles to a small ring. Coffee and sweet spicy peppers aroma. Taste matches the aroma - coffee and even more spicy peppers. Slightly fizzy on the tongue, otherwise quite sticky in the mouth. Swirling it softens it nicely. Covers the alcohol perfectly. Great sipper, but so tasty you want to glug it. The spicy sweet peppers wow me all the way to the bottom. And the coffee’s not caricatured, all very well balanced.


 ReademNwheat (174), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Jun 19, 2008  
From a bottle pours a murky dark brown. big aroma of roasted coffee beans. taste is the same. a great coffee stout along with jah-va from ST. and the label is just great.


 ElGaucho56 (386), USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/517/20
Jun 18, 2008  
Pours an obsidian black with small beige head. Nose is most definitely coffee: earthy, nutty, roasted, with a hint of bitter chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, and herbal hops. Smooth and not too rich on the palate, again with the coffee up front, however as flavor progress greater depths reveal themselves: burnt toast, deep bready malts, milky toffee, and an espresso bitter finish. A delightful coffee stout.


 fredandboboflo (1395), East Setauket, New York, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/515/20
Jun 18, 2008  
Bottle. Aroma powerful with coffee right out of the bottle, but becomes surprisingly subdued. Completely charred malts as well. In the mouth, it’s of course very coffee, but with those charred malts hanging around burning off the tongue. Some sweetish chocolate in the background, but I had to search to find it. A dry finish that feels odd to me in such a big, bold-flavored beer. Very good, very interesting.



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