Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

A: Pours black as night with a huge two finger espresso colored head. The head lingered for quite some time before dying down to a simple collar. Nice thick lacing in spots. Overall a lovely looking beer. S: Wow coffee to the max. Tons of fresh brewed coffee aromas come wafting from the glass. The coffee aromas are backed by just a hint of charcoal. A tinge of sweetness can be detected, but the pure coffee aroma of this one is better than those found in world’s best coffee houses. T: Holy Shit!!! This is the one; I have died and gone to heaven. The taste is off the charts. Tons of fresh espresso hits the tongue and rushes thru the mouth and down the throat. The flavor was so intense. It just hung around on the tongue with the perfect degree of bitterness. There were hints of charcoal and smoke, but the coffee is what this one is all about. I started drinking this one at 51 degree and let it warm from there. As it warmed just a hint of sugary sweetness and milk can be detected beneath the wonderful coffee taste. M: Medium bodied, very smooth almost creamy. This beer went down wayyy tooo good for 9 percent. God I am in heaven. D: Uber, the best, I love it. The perfect beer for morning noon or night.

Bottle. Aroma is lots of coffe and dark chocolat with some vanilla notes. Taste is lots of coffee.roasted malt and some chocolat. Great beer!

Bottle at Volo, Aug 7, 2008. Ralph served this and said, this is the first bottle of Peche Mortel legally sold in Ontario. Crazy. The beer is crazier, especially for one in which coffee is added, as it still remains incredibly well balanced. With our cheese and apricot jelly/chutney it was unreal. Smooth, thick mouthfeel; tremendous aroma and super complex layers of coffee, roasted flavours. Magnifique!

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.