Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Bottle. Pours a thick black with a very nice sized tan head. Aroma of vanilla, wood, coffee, and roasted malts. Flavor is out of this world... coffee mainly with a sweet cherry like backside that is really pleasant. I love this stout. I could drink this everyday, all day if it weren’t for the price.

Bottle pours a dark black with a thin tan head. Aroma is heavily chocolate and coffee. Taste is intense with coffee, roastwd malts, chocolate and a moderately bitter finish. Medium to heavy bodied but smooth. Absolutely amazing!

wow! what a great beer. poured at about 5 deg celcius from a bottle to a maudite glass, this beer holds the black. no light bleeding through. the head is a nice tan. thick and creamy. isn’t sustained too well, however. diminishes to thin rather quickly. aroma rapes your nostrils with coffee and black chocolate. malts have a strong toasted scent. tickles my nose. after the first sip, i feel a sweetness. the bitter dark chocolate is present, but not overwhelming. the aftertaste is quite prominent, however not hated. you can feel this sh*t warming your stomach! besides the gut warming awesomeness, no presence of alcohol. this beer is super!

No light can penetrate the blackness that this liquid has. Truly black. Very nice dark tan colored thick two-fingered head of dense foam. Good retention. Excellent ’curtain-like’ lacing. Not so much ’lace’, as it is more like a solid sheet of film. Excellent! Very nice hefty malt nose. A small swirl brings out notes of dark fruit. Light coffee scent is present, though not as much as expected. Big dark malts mixed with espresso shots hit you first. Chocolate notes mingle with dark fruit sweetness. An ever so light hint of vanilla kind of levels things out to a very nice balance. Very nice and silky in the mouth. Creamy smooth, yet light. Excellently drinkable. I can’t argue with so many before who have rated this brew so highly. It truly is worthy of it’s praise.

Pours a dark black color with a thin brown head. Strong, powerful coffee aroma. Taste is like black coffee with some chocolate and roasted malts. Very, very good! Creamy mouthfeel. Alcohol was well hidden at first, but started to become noticable after the beer warmed up. Overall this is excellent, one of the best stouts I’ve had.

Mocha mousse with rum-raisins, chocolate syrup drizzling over a whipped cloud of Turkish Delight, dark bitterseet thick coffee arm-wrestles for control as the velvety nectar slips effortlessly down... thanks for the inspiration MartinT!

Thanks again to Stephane for sharing the bottle. The beer pours completely opaque with a small brown creamy head and great belgian lacing. Nose is heavy coffee and kahlua with some dried fruity esters. The body is huge but silky is the word here. The flavors are all completely in tune. The balance of milk chocolate, coffee and burnt toast is perfect. The finishing bitterness is completely in check. Nothing in this beer smacks you in the face. And I don’t think it’s supposed to. The body is just sensational. The best balanced Impy made today.

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.