Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Bottled April 2005. Wow! A very hard pour leaves a opaque, pitch black liquid with a super bubbly medium tan head that dissapates rather quickly. The aroma is smokey, with some dark chocolate and lots and lots of coffee. The flavor is an even bigger kick of coffee, with some dark chocolate, some hazelnut,carmelized sugar, dark fruits and some smoke. I’ve had plenty of coffee stouts, but this one really hits the mark if that is the flavor you are looking for. This beer is big...chewy and oily over the tounge with a bittersweet coffee/dark chocolate finish. At first I thought this beer was kind of full of itself for the price it was charging for admission, but in the the end I feel it was worth the money.

Thanks McBackus!!!! I have wanted this beer for quite a while. The color is a near ebony. The aroma is bullying. Coffee, dark chocolate, charcoal, acrid smoke. Intense. The flavor is bold and brutish. The coffee character really shines through. This is an amazing beer.

22oz bottle. 08/2005 bottle. Aroma: Packed with roasted malt aroma. Coffee jumps out really strong. Lots of grape and plum. Chocolate, vanilla, and a subtle spiciness. Alcohol is certainly there, but not intrusive. Appearance: Black and oily with no highlights. Dark tan head was full and creamy with great retention. Great lacing. Flavor: Rich roasted maltiness with strong coffee overtones. Chocolate, molasses, smoke, vanilla, grape jam, light spiciness, and some light hoppiness. Medium bitterness. Medium dry finish with some coffee and roast carrying over. Palate: Full bodied and creamy. Medium carbonation. Pleasant alcohol warming on bottom of mouth. Overall: Amazing beer. Intense coffee, but enough other flavors going on to keep it interesting.

22 OZ bottle via PineyPower (THANKS!). Bottled 08/2005, sampled 11:28 pm on11/18/2006. Pours black with ruby accents and a large tan head. Nose is mega expresso, chocolate and roasted barley. Taste starts out with some sweet malts, molasses, a hint of vanilla, then turns to roasted chocolated and a heavy espresso aftertaste. Medium bodied, creamy mouthfeel. Easier to drink than many of the thickier chewy Imp Stouts. I could down this 9.5% abv bottle easily and quickly. Alcohol is hidden well. Very nice nightcap!

Rating 500, booyahkahsha. 22oz bomber via trade with MotorToddHead. August 2005 Vintage. I’ve been holding this for a special occasion and I think this is it. Sharing with bikesandbeer. The pour is black with a thin third finger light brown head. The aroma is intense amazingly nicely roasted coffee. Its like smelling a big bag of fresh beans. Damn, the taste is humongous, with lots and lots of coffee, some chocolate and lots of smokey roastiness. This is a hell of a beer, extremely coffely bitter, so much coffee its hard to know where the cofee ends and the stout begins. Little vanilla on the back end. Damn this is good. Thank you Todd for searching Wisconsin for this.

Poured a solid black with a wispy dark head. The boquet was a incredible, wonderful, strong coffee and toffee aroma that made my mouth water. In the mouth and the throat the flavor was strong and long-lasting, original and heavenly. I can best describe this beer as ’Murphy’s Irish Stout’ on steroids. A real treat to drink. Cheers

05 bomber with a big thanks to RagallachMC for the trade. Pours deep brown with a medium head. Intense aroma of coffee and chocolate, vanilla and cream. The decadence carries through to the taste; sweet and rich and a bit like tiramisu. 08 12oz - tasted pretty much the same as the 05, but maybe a bit fresher. In truth, the 05 held up extremely well, but the new bottles are the same beer.

THOUGHTS: I had been this sitting around for over a month when I finally tired it. I mad a large beer run and wanted to save what I thought would be the best for last. It was worth the wait. Incredible beer. It hid the alcohol well. A great Imperial stout that had a little coffee instead of just a strong coffee stout. I was amazed by the quality from a twist-off-cap bottle. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured an opaque, very dark brown that was black in the glass with an average, tan head that kept a thin sheep and left excellent lacing. The aroma was moderate to heavy, roasted, milk chocolate and mild coffee, light yeast, dark fruit, very slight banana, and then slight alcohol for the ABV. The initial flavor was very sweet and lightly bitter; while the finish was extremely sweet, then bitter and sour with and average to long duration. There was chocolate, dark fruit, coffee, roasted and burnt malt, and sour, bitter coffee. The full body was fairly oily then dry with fizzy carbonation and a light alcoholic finish.