Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Bottle. Wow. Blck in colour with a medium brownish head. Coffee, coffee and coffee. Very creamy and nice carb. Also a hint of liquorice. Fantasitic.

bottle. This was a one year aged bottle tasted at the brewpub - batch #42. Pours a thick pitch black body with a luscious rocky mocha head. Boatloads of coffee aroma and cigar smoke coming from other tables does not mask this powerful essence. Also notes of raisins and licorice. I probably just sat there smelling this for a good five minutes. First sip, yes, this is definitely a coffee inspired stout. Bittersweet chocolate throughout. I’m simply amazed by how well this beer is balanced and how silky smooth it is. This is truly a masterpiece. I’m still going to have to try this fresh on draught some day though.

completely black under a medium, creamy light brown head. aroma of raw coffee beans, and some chocolate. flavor is intensely coffee with some bitter dark chocolate. chalky palate. i like it.

22 oz bottle. Way over carbonated. Deep dark brown in color with a huge tan head. Very roasty coffee aroma. Roasty coffee flavor. Noticeable alcohol. Strong. Sweet tasting. Very roasty like flavor. Too sweet. Not as great as all the hype.

Nov., 2004 bottling: Virtually opaque black. Big rich-tan bubbles condense into a fine layer of cream. Heavily charred aroma with tar, smoke, richly earthy java, burnt custard, and potting soil. Fairly phenolic. Pleasingly dense in body. Mostly soft and velvety carbonation, yet with a fine tingle of spritz. Opens with a poignant sting of char and a snappy but relaxed phenolic bite. Sneaky java intensity slowly develops an extremely smoky and nutty earthiness and glides down like liquid tar and burnt chocolate fudge. Bittersweet notes of unsweetened cocoa and black chocolate truffles fuse with well managed coffee- and malt-derived acidity to add more layers of depth. Rich java anchors the drier char elements and tugs the palate downward with significant force. Meaty as all get out. Tannic alcohol warms the body and lends dryness, but is otherwise a non-factor. Perceptible nuttiness and roasted grains complement the rounded inky and salmiakki overtones. Finishes with snippets of vinous acidity and ashen malt dryness, but otherwise decidedly punishing and potent with lingering espresso beans bathing in fudge and tar. This is a journey in a bottle. (9/4/8/4/17=4.2)

Draft: Dark brown. Creamy gray-tan foam. Bittersweet aroma of charcoal and coffee. Surprisingly simplistic. Somewhat dense in body, but overly gritty from the nitrogen. Initially nutty with roasted malts and softening hints of coconut milk. Mild buttery espresso flavor cuts the acidity and dryness from the heavily charred coffee character. Bittersweet chocolate center. Gobs of char flavors, ranging from burnt matchsticks to charcoal. Hint of crystallized sugar compounds the firm char. Moderately slick ink flavors. The coffee begs for some malt complexity to curtail its acridness, but it never arrives. Finishes dry and gradually more subdued in its intensity. After judging this from the bottle, where it really sparkles, I see no reason to nitrogenate this. (7/4/7/3/14=3.5)

Thanks Santa! OMG, a new candidate for darkest beer I’ve ever seen. Barely showed anything but opaque black even at the pour. Produced a voluminous thick brown head. Aroma is ripe with coffee coffee coffee, plus a little chocolate chip cookie. Nice, the palate is full and velvety with a rich dry roasted malt along with plenty of iced espresso flavor. Light acidity in the coffee. Beats the crap out of many coffee stouts that seem weak and watery, as this is neither. Long lingering coffee flavor, along with a resinous hop and black malt.

Tap at the brewpub. Pure black in colour with a creamy beige head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, roasted and burnt malt, cream. Flavour of dark chocolate and cream, burnt coffee beans, buttery, lots of malt, vanila, espresso. The finish is so long and and creamy. This is the type of beer that you want to last forever but you want to drink it so fast. This is a coffee beer at its finest.

Big thanks the the STL crew for this one. Pours very dark brown with a tan head. The aroma is very thick and dense with dark chocolate and thick coffee - comes across and an alcoholic mocha drink. Thick velvety body with soft gentle carbonation. The taste has big coffee and heavily roasted malt that is smooth at first and then bitter on the finish. The taste is a bit gritty on the finish and slightly biting. A very enjoyable beer.