Dieu du Ciel Aphrodisiaque

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

Aphrodite. Black body with a small tan head that fades quickly. The aroma has some chocolate, raspberry, cocoa powder, and cinnamon. Roasted flavor, coffee bean, bakers chocolate, and some light vanilla. Medium body.

341 ml bottle from Trappe a Fromage, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.

App.: Deep brown-black with a large mocha head. Aroma: Heavenly. Lots of deep rich malts – coffee and dark chocolate, some milk chocolate and caramel, some coconut and vanilla, slightly ashen, a little grape fruitiness, slight bright notes, a touch of alcohol, Palate: Medium-ish body, fairly sparse and soft effervescence. Flav.: Even better than the nose, it is sweeter somehow with plenty of dark chocolate, espresso, vanilla, caramel, creme brulee, a touch of fruitiness and a bit of alcohol; dry with some bitterness and a fairly clean finish.

I would love a stronger, thicker, sweeter Imperial version. This is lovely.

11.5oz. Bottle: Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, light vanilla, slight bourbon, caramel, and cocoa. Poured black in color with a small, light brown head that diminished but lasted throughout. Opaque. Sparkling. Flavor is light to medium sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of roasted malts, tobacco, light wood, light chocolate, cocoa, tar, vanilla, and a hint of bourbon. Medium body. Syrupy, dry texture. Average carbonation. Roasted malt, tar, tobacco, and cocoa finish is dry.

Aphrodite bottle. Pour is perfect for a stout, pitch black and full bodied, with a medium sized tan head. Aroma is mostly bitter chocolate, but with a foundation of roasty malts and espresso, and I fancy that I can smell a bit of the vanilla as well. Flavor seems a bit thin to me at first. Just a standard stout flavor. But the flavors begin to open up for me. I can taste coffee, bitter chocolate, roasted malts and nuts. I believe the vanilla does more to mello all the flavors out than to add any flavor of its own. This is a very good and well balanced stout. I’m glad I gave it a try. Plus the label is pretty cute.

2009 Bottle - Thanks dand645! - Pours dk brown with a medium tan head...aroma is sweet dk malt, cocoa and vanilla, roast...flavour is similar, vanilla and dk chocolate, lightly tannic but far from bitter...someone had mentioned this was the vanilla equiv to Peche Mortel and that totally fits, vanilla creme...tasty and rich, one to share for sure...

( 341ml bottle, courtesy of blutt59 ) Pours a dark brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma of maple, macadamia nuts, vanilla, cocoa, and roasted malt. Flavor of vanilla, nuts, chocolate, and roasted malt.

Bottle thanks to blutt59. The look is brown to black in color with a nice beige colored head. The smell is malts, coffee, chocolate, and malts. Good. The taste is sweet, roasty, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and good.

Bottle shared by Hophead22.. Dark dark brown pour with a mocha head.. Aroma was sweet with some roasted malts.. Flavor was very roasty with a slight sweetness... Medium carbonation.