Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

My rating did a 180 on this one a couple years after my 1st taste. Love the coffee, love the beer. It’s a bit intense, but well done for how much coffee taste is in there. Too bitter, but not enough to take away much from it.

Complexe et ample. Extraordinaire. Unique. Noire sirupeuse. Cerises, chocolat noir amer, café et café et café, malts rôtis. Houblon présent et balancé. Alcool présent, mais bien balancé. Très très bonne...

22 oz bomber bottled on 4-05: Pours a deep brown coffee black. Immediately the room is filled with roasting coffee. Sweet coffee nose, roasted coffee, chocolate, coffee, coffee...Small tan head mostly diminishing leaves faint ring of lace. Wow, alcohol is hidden quite well here. This is sort of a big burly speedball. Upper and downer rolled into one expensive 22 oz bomb. I really like this and must say that its good. STeady carbonation. If you dont like coffee, then you shouldnt bother with this one. Burnt roasted grain, black coffee, dark toast, faint dark fruit, medium body, robust bitter coffee finish. This is carbonated fermented coffee. Perhaps a chewier body could lend a better understanding. I feel as if they used a bit more coffee they could have gotten their point accross better. Even still I feel this is quite nice. Im high off coffee now, how the hell will I ever fall asleep?

This tastes exacly like coffee and that’s it. I really don’t get any chocolate or smokiness at all--straight up roasted coffee goodness though. The pour is dark with a tan head. The aroma was burnt coffee. The mouthfeel was a little too thin I thought as well.

deep dark impenetrable coffee color. whiff of coffee in aroma, with a heavy coffee bite in the flavor. finishes off much too sweet, and a pretty heavy brew to drink.

(11.5 oz. bottle from 1828 Vintage House, cellared for 1 yr. after purchase) Pours very dark brown, appears opaque. Half a finger of biege head recedes to a thin lasting layer. Nice looking beer. Aroma of coffee and some cherry/plum. Mouthfeel is fairly smooth, perhaps lightly oily. Sturdy mouthfeel for an Imp Stout. Light sheets of lacing melt away quickly along with a light syrupy film. Dominant flavor of rich roasted coffee with more hidden notes of dark baker’s chocolate, molasses, caramel, wood and cherry. ABV well-integrated. A nice smooth-drinking Imp Stout with perhaps a bit less complexity than some.

FEb. 2006 - This beer is seriously overhyped. Beer smelled and tasted like cheap coffee. It was pretty, I’ll give you that, but I buy beer ($16 bucks a pop?) for flavor, not prettiness. It’s "ok" but nothing special. Save your money.

Poured very dark brown, almost black, with a large fizzy/frothy light brown head. Somewhat sweet aroma of roasted coffee and chocolate, toffee, and a bit of acidity. Flavor is intensely bitter with burnt coffee grounds domination with perhaps just a smidgen of bitter cocoa and some light cream. Very little sweetness. Finishes intensely bitter and earthy. A well-made imperial stout, though I didn’t find it very drinkable due to the intense bitterness, which also gave it a bit of a one-dimensional feel. I wanted more depth to the flavor and more weight to the body, but as it pertains to mixing coffee and beer, this beer succeeds. It just feels like a one-trick pony.