Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Bottled in 2007. Pours a pitch black colour with a big well lasting creamy brown head leaving a very nice lacing. Aroma of well roasted malt and pepper, nice dark chocolate and some alcohol. Very good mouthfeel. The flavour has a great soft roasted maltiness with black pepper, good roasty coffee, dark chocolate, bitter hops and a mild touch of alcohol. Long lasting roasty dark chocolate spiced finish. Lovely spiced Imp. Stout!

Bottle, bought in Copenhagen. Almost black and opague. Roast, cream and coffee in the aroma. Malty sweet, creamy flavor with coffee. Roastbitter aftertaste with mocha. Alcohol is well hidden. Delicious beer.

Bottle. Black colour with a big baige head. Heavy coffee, vanilla aroma and a burned heavy coffee, very bitter dry taste. Medium to full body with a long bitter dry coffee finish. GREAT, but to much coffee for my taste.

A Mes rate: Bottle at the Struise Farm during Urbain’s Post Zythos Struise Tasting.
Well the first line of the commercial description covers this one for me. Stunning, almost black, mahogany red with a very good tan head. Very roasty aroma with amazing, freshly ground coffee, great earthy notes and some really delicate hops give it a lot of added depth. Flavour is stunning. You have to really enjoy coffee for this one. It’s like espresso concentrate. Gorgeous chocolate malt and alcohol remind you that this is actually beer but I am having to fight the urge to put cream in it and start dunking the speculoos. Big nutty notes on a dry finish and a superb mouthfeel round it off perfectly for me. Damn it’s good. There is enough coffee to get high upon. F**kin’ amazing. Claudia says: "Can I have some sugar?"

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Bottle. [thank you, Boutip!]
Poured in my Belle-Vue Kriek Snifter. Absolutely pitch black with a nice, medium cappucino-beige head. Good lacing. Aroma is deeply roasted coffee and a sweetish background of chocolate. Good and very dry mouthfeel - perhaps a little thin when you think of the 9,5 %. Flavour is very much dominated by coffee, some slight coffee. Also there are tar-like notes and light fruity hoppiness. Actually a very drinkable beer - and I sure like coffee in my beers :o) Finish is a bit chewy with the chocolate coming through a bit more. But this is first of all, a coffee-lovers dream.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium-sized creamy tan head. Aroma of strong coffee (good if you like coffee). Flavor of coffee and malt. Creamy, semi-bitter sweet palate. Thanks for sharing TChrome!

22oz bottle - batch 2. My 1000th rating of the year! Poured a dark black with a large sized brown head. Aromas of coffee, roasted malts, some chocolate, and some caramel. Tastes of coffee, coffee, some more coffee, roast, some dark fruits lurking in the background and caramel. Nice smooth body that is very easy to drink. Lacing left on the glass. Alcohol content hidden. I love coffee in my beers and this one does not let down. I have a bottle of Batch 1 in the cellar and am curious to see how it differs from this one.

11.5oz bottle @Tampa Wkly Gathering–pours a light brown head that laces and black color. Aroma is anise, ashy, some acidic. As it warms coffee too. Taste is coffee-dark malt, ashy, some acidic hops. Not my taste but nice.