Dieu du Ciel Équinoxe du Printemps

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Scotch Ale
Montreal, Canada

Serve in Thistle

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Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, København
Pours dark amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, dried fruits and maple syrup. Taste is heavy sweet and light bitter with a long sweet alcoholic finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat.

Bottle. Clear dark red brown with a large light brown head. Aroma-taste of brown sugar, golden syrup, dry spices (cloves, cardamon), biscuit and chocolate. Medium bodied. Excellent.

On tap. Pours dark red with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, nutty toffee, vanilla, chocolate, some molasses and ripe plums. Taste is chocolate, sweet ripe fruits, caramel, wood, brown sugar, syrup, some coffee notes and raisin. Alcohol is maybe a bit overdone.

On tap. Murky dark brown with beige head. Caramels, maple, some fruits, warm and moderate finish.

A - Pours a rich red-brown color with a finger of frothy tannish head atop. The head fades down slowly to a thick ring leaving behind some nice lacing. S - Aroma is full of sweet molasses and maple syrup with a bit more sweetness from some caramel. There is also a bit of brown sugar and booze mixed in as well. T - Starts off with a big kick of rich sweetness from the maple syrup and the caramel. Through the middle, the sharpness mellows a bit and some more caramel comes through with the brown sugar and a bit of dark fruit. The finish is a mix of sweet maple syrup and caramel with some residual sugar and booze that linger. M - Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth and very rich and syrupy with a bit of a warming finish. D - Pretty drinkable, especially considering the richness and the 9.5% abv. I really like the mix of maple syrup into the scotch ale. It is a bit unbalanced and richly sweet, but I kind of like that.

Draught at Dieu du Ciel, Montreal. Dark brown, cloudy, small to average and mostly diminishing light brown head. Moderate, malty and sugary sweet aroma, caramel and some fruitiness - dark fruits, alcohol. Body is medium to full, malty and sweetish flavor, some fruitiness with dark fruits, caramel and some alcohol. Finish is average, malty and sweetish, some fruitiness with dark fruits - lots of alcohol. Sweet stong ale with too much alcohol considering the body.

Maple, pears, burnt caramel, finish with a worming alcohol. Works really well with vanilla ice cream, the alcohol tones down and the complex sweetness shines through.

Feb 2010 bottle. Pour copper amber with nice beige head. Aroma maple, spice, apple, wood, sweet, caramel, raisin bread. Taste maple, caramel, nice bitterness, apples, spice, boozy warmth. MF medium to full thick body fine carb. Age really made the maple stand out this taste was much better then my initial encounter with this beer its now a tasty sipper.

Poured into tulip. Got a fat dirty white 1", long lasting head. Maple syrup, malts and alcohol. Fruity at the end. Strong maple, raisins, pleasent sweetness. Feels great. Nice and smooth. Not the best scotch ale out there, but definitely fantastic.

Bottle. Heavy malt aromas of cereal, caramel and milk chocolate, moderate hop note of cooked orange, light meaty smell for the yeast with hints of date, maple syrup, vanilla and alcohol. Head is small, frothy/fizzy, light tan, with no lacing and is fully diminishing. Color is muddy medium brown with a decent amount of small particles. Flavor starts heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Palate is medium to full, syrupy with a soft carbonation and a finish that is lightly alcoholic, boozy, chewy and sticky on the lips. A little too sweet to starts, but this Scotch Ale is true to style and very pleasant to drink.