Dieu du Ciel Isseki Nicho

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Montreal, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Sampled at the Mondial de la bière 2010. Pitch black with a medium mocha head with great retention. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, herbs, spices and alcohol. Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, herbs, spices and alcohol with a bitter finish.

12 ounce tulip sampled at the brewpub. The aroma on this is rather faint...what I do detect has light coffee and a light choco sweetness. Not bad, just faint. Virtually opaque black body with a frothy tan head and good lacing. Nice looking brew. Very roasted, burnt, ashy, chocolatey beer. Very slight belgian yeastiness is also present with some slight esters. The chalkboard said this was a "Strong Dark Saison", but this is basically an Imperial Stout brewed with Belgian Yeast. Tasty, just not what I was expecting. A bit disappointing because I wasn’t in the mood for an Imperial Stout.

Powerful aroma of pinot, some roast, fruit. The appearance is dark brown, tan head, like an impy stout. The flavor is wine, roasted coffee, chocolate, fruit. The finish is again more like wine, slighlty sour. The body is a tad on the thin side of medium. Decent, unique beer.

Bottle. Thick brown smog sponge foam on black. Heavy black malt coffee scent with some hop notes. Saison Noire = Saison Stout. Coffee, chocolate and herbal hops. Bitter chocolate pepper finish. Dry and airy. A great beer!

Tasted on draft at Lush CBC event. Pours nearly black with a huge brown head. Aromas of dark malt, chocolate, and hops. Flavors of bitter chocolate, bitter hops, and very dark malt. The carbonation is heavy, but the liquid itself is a little less than medium in body with a long bitter finish. Overall, this is a very unique beer that is also very good.

on tap at Dieu du Ciel. pours a pitch black with a creamy beige head that leaves loads of lacing. aroma is roasted malts, coffee and dark chocolate. taste is unbelieable. very complex. starts off with the typical robust notes of roasted malts, then a bitter hops comes along, and it ends with the finish you would expect from a Saison. this is hands down one of my favorite DdC brews.

Cask @ Volo for the Dieu du Ciel Launch. Rich malty nose, pitfruit, treacle and alcohol is noted. Deep brown, red highlights, small tan head.Taste has a full malt, some fruit with an appreciated booziness. Medium bodied, well balanced, nice tongue tingle, sour/tart and pleasant carbonated. Most interesting!

[on cask at brewpub] Fruity-fresh and dry aroma with notes of liquorice, star anise, plums, and currants. Lasting, bubbly foam over opaque red-black. Salty and quite bitter roasted barley flavour with sweet prunes and potent, fruity esters. Moderately bitter finish with some tangy coffee.

On cask at Volo. Appearance: Pitch black, small tanned head. Aroma: Coffee, chocolate, spices, lemons and oranges! Flavour: Woah! Alcohol and lots of it followed by chocolate, oak, spicy as all hell and with a long bitter coffee finish. Nice indeed.

tap at dieu du ciel...pours deep black with tan head, nice lacing...very interesting, looks and smells like a stout, but finishes like a saison...nice balance between roasty and yeasty funk