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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Sample @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Pours dark hazy reddish brown with a creamy brownish white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is sweet, sour and spicy with dark bread, cloves, lemon juice, lemon zest, white pepper, plums and alcohol. Taste is sweet, tiny sour and spicy with dark bread, orange peal, lemon juice, grass, allspice, cloves, plums, roasted malts, wood and hints of smoke. Mouthfeel is dry, tart and medium bodied. Finish is sour and bitter with bread, bread spices, lemon juice, orange peal and cloves.

Draught at CBC. Pours a creamy black with a small beige head. Aroma is complex - roasted and vineous, licorice, spices (especially notes of cinnamon), flowery hops, grapefruits. Flavor is massive - roasted, malty sweetness with notes of fruits and licorice leading to a heavy bitter dry finish. Quite hoppy. Big and bold. Alcohol is present, yet a very sophisticated brew. Maybe the best offering at CBC on friday - this was the one I had to try twice.

Draught @ CBC ’12. Rated on 11.05.2012
Aroma is rather light with earthy notes, some hints of roastiness and yeast. Also some dark chocolate later on. Smooth palate. Flavour is roasted with coffee, semi‐dark chocolate and some earthy notes. Leathery palate, especially on the finish. Malty feeling here. Unique stuff with farmhouse saison aroma and imperial stout taste.

Draught @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration.
Pours pitch black color with small head. Aroma of smoke, yeast, dark toasted malts, ripe dark fruits and mild wheat. Flavor of dark malts, spices, fruits, lemon mostly and liquorice notes. Quite interesting brew.
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Draught @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration

Pours dark brown, small brown head. Aroma of dark ripe fruits, spices, malts and slightly roasted malts. Taste is malty with some tart fruits, spices, berries and some sourness. Finish is slightly roasty tart with some fruitness and malts. Okay, quite interesting

Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012. Black beer with a big nice brown head. Chocolate aroma, fruity, yeasty notes, fogs, raisins. Chocolate flavor, sourish, malty, some spices.

Bottle from Asahiya. Coffee, strong alcohol, yeast in the nose. Dark brown color, a bit translucent at the edges, thin tan head. Dark bready porter-like flavors, with some chocolate, yeastiness, and a biting bitter saison note in the aftertaste. Warming alcohol, medium-full body. A very unusual hybrid beer. A heavyweight saison with roasted malt. Seems like a philosopher’s drink: contemplating the darkness and bitterness... and enjoying the process.

UPDATED: MAR 1, 2012 Tap. Moderate toasted grain for the malt, light herbs for the hops, moderate to heavy musty and barnyard funkiness for the yeast, with port wine, prune and other over ripe fruit in the background. Head is large, creamy, light gray/brown with fair lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is very dark brown. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately acidic and heavily bitter. Palate is on the fuller side of medium, oily with a lively carbonation and a very dry finish. The balance between sweet and sour in this Dark Saison is nothing short of harmonious.

UPDATED: JAN 28, 2013 En fût au pub:Tabac, mélasse et foin mouillé en arôme. Au gout c’est une onctuosité digne des stouts a l’avoine , effervescence en plus, qui nous accueille. Les houblons floraux, sapinés prennent possession des saveurs en y ajoutant chocolat, café, noisettes accompagnés d’une amertume bien enraciné. Un surprenant délice. (4.3) En bouteille: Moins bien balancé et soyeux, pas mal inférieur à celle du pub. (3.7)

#1107 draught; nose is roasted malt, iron, rotten fruit, late coffee, feel is mediumbroad, carb is medium, taste is sour red berries, earth, roasted malt, dry hops finish