Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Are you sometimes irked when someone gives a low rating to a beer you love? Well here comes another one. Luckily Peche Mortel has tons of ratings, so mine doesn’t matter. I got this bottle from Francois_Mtl, a great person and trader as part of a larger trade. I think was just released, so it’s a Dec 2007 bottle. Tried at forest’s tasting with ibrew2or3, fordest, padrefan98, toncatcher, and others. This beer smells just like coffee. Very roasty and burnt aroma that reminded me of cigarette butts. Even though not my favorite, I give it kuods for powerful aroma. Very dry and bitter flavor. Yuck. I love coffee, but do not like it without sugar and cream. This is like plain black coffee. Needs more fermentable sugars and a higer mash temperature. It’s just not my favorite style.

Bottle - March ’05. Aged .5 years in a fridge(no cellar). Awesome aroma got me excited for this beer, I had been waiting awhile to try it. Good look wih thin head. Flavor was a little to bitter at first. Almost tasted like a chocolate milkshake. Warmed up it really developed some character. Very smooth. Very good Beer. Cheers!

Bottle provided by Richlikebeer shared at BCTC 07. The Candadiens we were with went crazy when the saw this--its not available in bottles in Canada. Anyway, thanks for bringing this Rich. Sampled immediately following a Dark Lord (Rich just gave this bottle to the Canucks--what an awesome guy!). Anyway, poured black. Smelled like coffee--good coffee. A little chocolate in there too. Taste was coffee with a dab of cocoa, but mainly coffee and roasted malts. I usually dont love coffee beers, but you can really tell this one was well made. Didn’t blow me away, but I did enjoy it. One of the last beers I remember having last weekend. Thanks Rich! You’re the man!

Well, it cost $35 at the Hop Deveil Grill bu it was worth it. The commercial description on top tells you everything you need to know, it beer and coffee. Not just hints of coffee but taste and smell of coffee, good smelling coffee as well. Unlike, any coffe stouts out there. There is some taste of alcohol when it goes down. There is not much after the coffee thing but it is a great coffee angle.

Pours black with reddish hues. Aroma of coffee, roast, chocolate, cherries, oak, and vinous malt. Tastes of dark chocolate, floral hops, spicy pepper, and fruity tropical esters. Mouthfeel is full to heavy bodied with moderate carbonation. Very delicious.

Black in color. Decent head that stayed awhile. Nose of huge wet coffee grounds. Big, big first sip. Lots and lots of coffee. Back of tongue is actually thin.

(on bottle at CPH Yeha05) I can see why coffelovers dig this one; I don´t drink coffee. Pitch black, beige head. Smell like a use coffee-filter. Extremly dry, coffeetaste. Dry, dry, dry mofo and then; nothing. Too one-sided for me.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle with a blurb and marked bottling date, 04/05, along the right side of label, sampled at a cooler cellar temperature in a snifter. Poured a dark syrupy dark roast coffee black with a small tan head that settled into a fine lacing. Aromas of expresso, hints of roasted chocolate and toffee, and some RIS type dark fruity esters that meshes with the alcohol. Good moderate carbonation and a crisp, dry, slick, creamy smooth full bodied mouthfeel. Delicious French dark roasted coffee with a touch of charcoal taste, burnt chocolate malts adds a little sweetness, a subtle dark fruitiness, plums and rum soaked raisins, the alcohol is well masked, but warming in the back of the throat, towards the end a light vanilla milkiness emerges, and a dry dark roasted coffee, malty finish. Easily the best coffee stout I’ve had the pleasure to taste. I’m a big coffee fan to begin with, and this is amazing rich, obviously the best dark French roasted coffee was used, exceptional.