Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Bottle@Home, #4000. Sweet esprresso with chocolate aroma. Black color, large thick brown head, very nice lace. Sweet, bitter, very roasted, grined coffee beans, some black chocolate. Medium body, light dusty. Very flavorful, powerful, very coffee!

Draught at the brewpub
Dark brown, nearly black, nice head, nice lacing. Nose of sweet coffee, subtle roast, some chocolate, a touch of fruity ethanol and very strong espresso/cigarette notes. The flavor is creamy, smooth, almost like molasses sweetened coffee without the bitterness. Very nice stout. Finishes sweet, rich, creamy, delicious.

Bottle from fiver29. Poured black color with a large brown frothy head that mostly lasted with . Moderate to heavy roasted coffee and dark chocolate aroma. Medium smooth body. Good complex combo of sweet coffee and bitter chocolate with a moderate to heavy roasted bittersweet finish that was strong and lasting. This is a standout brew.

Bottle. Thanks to Theis for sharing. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Roasted malty coffee aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweet malty coffee flavor with some hints of chocolate. Roasted malty coffee finish with some bitter chocolate and coffee in the aftertaste.

Bottled chez Mes and Sim. Mes very generously offered to open this beer after I told him that strangely I don’t like coffee but, with the odd exception really like coffee beers. We drank it while watching some of Wayne Rooney’s greatest ever goals, and a rerun of the end of United beating Chelsea in the Champions League final of 2007-8. I’m not sure I’ve laughed so much watching football. "Red guy, red guy, blue guy, red guy" etc. The beer itself is one of those coffee beers ut’s easy to enjoy. Black with a slight beige head, and a great aroma of coffee but with noticeable hops. Big and hoppy in the mouth with coffee and burnt roasty milky malts. Really tasty and well brewed and even after a long day on the beer still a treat. Many thanks guys. Let me put you in the picture Let me show you what I mean The messiah is my sister Ain’t no king man, she’s my queen

Black with a disappearing light brown head. Coffee (cold, day old coffee), ashes, licorice, charcoal in the nose, the coffee so dominating that I don’t sense beer. Intense flavour mixing coffee, chocolate, roast malt, and a touch of hop bitterness on a sweet background. A pleasant surprise after the aroma. But as always with flavoured and spiced beer, I prefer the flavouring subdued and the beer in the foreground.

This is a beer I’ve waited a long time to rate, and I actually rate it with some trepidation, because I am convinced that the beer I am about to rate does not share absolute homology with the recipe of this beer that garnered the atmospheric ratings. Oh well. THe bottle is 12 ounces. The pour is deep black (very little light coming thorugh) with about a finger or so of tan head. The nose is roasty dark patent malt, molasses, dark choc, coffee, and some nutty and spicy undercurrents. The palate is pretty hefty, with no apparent heat until the very end, and flavors of dark malt, dark choc, french roasted coffee, molasses, anise, and cashews. Pretty smooth, and this one reminded me a little bit of a younger brother of Kentucky Breakfast, although what this one lacks a bit as far as aroma and flavor intensity it makes up for in spades in the smoothness and balance departments. All in all, this is a beer I’d gladly drink daily if I could.

May 2005. Deep black with a thick brown head. Freshly ground coffee beans, very roasted and pungeant, with notes of spices, rosemary-like. In mouth, Rich coffee taste with intense roasted beans, sweet vanilla. Rich bodied, grainy mouthfeel, challenging.