Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

pours pitch with no head... then a creamy head pops up. aroma is coffee, bitter sweet chocolate, dried fruit. mouthful is like bitter sweet chocolate with a little kicker of espresso. very well done impy

bottle poured a nice dark black in color with a thin tan head that held a ring in the glass. aroma packs on roasted coffee, oats, dark chocolate, roasted malt, and light floral alcohol. pleasantly surprised by this one so far. mouth feel is heavy and rich with low carbonation. flavor starts with rich dark roasted espresso, roasted malt, dark bitter chocolate, and a fairly hefty lingering coffee finish. the coffee really takes the stage but the texture is fantastic (perhaps from oats). either way this is the next best thing to founders breakfast stout.

Bottle from Champanes, pours black with a nice foamy tan and dark tan bubbled head, head thins out a bit to a thick cover but certainly hangs around, this Impy left lots of beautiful bubbly lacing on the glass, has one of the better presentations I have seen for an Impy from the bottle, aroma of chocolate, coffee and roasted coffee beans, some roasted malt, I detected no alcohol on the nose, flavor of coffee with some coffee bitterness, chocolate, some roasted malt, predominately has a coffee flavor mixed with a chocolate flavor, I could feel the alcohol warmth in the mouth and throat, there is roasted malt and coffee bitterness at the finish, mouth feel is full and creamy on the palate, there is generous carbonation on the palate, coffee flavor in this brew is pretty good, there is a pronounced coffee bitterness to the drink but it blends well with the malt and chocolate, a nice coffee imperial stout.

Dark with a tan head and thick lacing. Intense coffee aroma, really nothing else gets through. Theres a nicely brewed stout underneath, but its crowded out by massive amounts of coffee, I was warned, but I was hoping they were overstating things. I’m not a coffee drinker but I love overtones of it in a beer, but this is not a beer with tones of coffee it is a cup of coffee with tones of beer. If I were to rater this on ratecoffee.com it might well get a perfect 5, but here it doesnt cut it. There is no subtlety, no complexity, just coffee. I am really surprised this is ranked so high, it has little that I am looking for.

Nose is dark fruit, and alcohol. Pours thick black with thin tan head. Smoky like coffee, and with a distinctive coffee flavor. Powerful smoked malt taste (even though there isn’t any in there) and strong in coffee - the perfect coffee stout. Finishes clean and crisp, despite its motor oil characteristics.

Trade bottle from ygtbsm94. Been anxious to open this one for quite some time now. Poured a dark black color with nice head. Aroma and taste of fresh ground coffee, big roasted malts, chocolate and espresso. Medium to full carbonation. As the commercial description states, the brewer blended cofee and a stout seemlessly. Awesome stuff, thanks Brad!

Excellent! Must be sipped very slowly at room temperature. The warmer it gets the better it taste. If you love coffee, you are going to love this beer. Let it linger in your mouth a few seconds before swallowing. This beer taste better when served in tulip shape glass.

Bottle from Bigmmartin. The worst thing about this beer is that I expected too much after seeing the rating. From the description it has everything that I am looking for a in beer. The pour is dead sexy! I mean really does it get any better than this? Aroma is a mixture of caramel, coffee, toffee and licorice, but all in a subdued way. Taste is bitter coffee with some dark chocolate. Not bad by any stretch, but everything else about this had me wishing for so much more.