Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel en Fût de Bourbon Américain

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle... This beer rocks!… Pours pitch black with a mid-sized, mushroom-colored head. The aroma furnishes notes of vanilla, fudge, bourbon and ash with a trace of vanilla. Very reminiscent of a café con leche. Full-bodied and creamy with jazzy carbonation. The flavor presents espresso, chocolate crème and a huge splash of bourbon. Finishes robustly with a boozy, rich blast of chocolate liqueur. Thanks to ygtbsm94 for providing this bottle of world class beer!

A dark stout with a thin moka head. A pleasant coffee aroma, coffee grinds, and bitter chocolate, not much Bourbon barrel noted. In mouth, a good shot of espresso, milk chocolate, with light peanut notes, peaty, an intriguing rendition of the Peche Mortel. Rich and soothing. On tap at Brouhaha, June 2009.

Bottle marked as Reserve Special 2010 Vieille 1 an en fut de Bourbon, via a trade. Pours with a inky black body that is glass coating, mild legs and a small tan head with some lace. Aromas are insanely good, bourbon, strong coffee bean, creamy milk. Oak, maple, coffee creamer, lactose. Decent alcohol. Vanillin. Earthy, dusty, fudgy. Very complex. Cola. Very clean, no esters. Flavors are earthy, fudge, ash, dusty cocoa, lots of coffee, mild currants, maple and bourbon. Strong coffee forward that leans slightly acidic. Fudge, earthy, tobacco. Tannins. A bit leathery. Medium barrel flavors, of vanilla and toasted coconut. Complex. A really punch of coffee. Fuller bodied, lighter carbonation, mouth coating, creamy and mildly warming with a hint of tannin drying out the finish. Every part as decadent and good as Green Flash’s Silva, but much more elegant. Delicious! Top Notch.

UPDATED: SEP 20, 2011 My Bottom Line:
Péché Mortel’s usual rich tiramisu coffee cake nose is now rendered more complex by well integrated droplets of silky vanilla and oaken alcohol for a masterful, if not serious, sipper of an Imperial Stout.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A creamy veil of foam lingers atop the jet black.
-The body is sooo luxurious.
-The subtle fruitiness of the vanilla bourbon notes is cleverly blended into the base beer. The barrel aging job (and the subsequent blending) was expertly done.
-While I like to think that the regular Péché Mortel is actually quite drinkable when on nitroed tap, I wouldn’t be able to say the same for this one. This barrel-aged version is for meditative drinking only. And so, it might even bring spiritual ecstacy as well...It’s that good.

On tap at Brouhaha and at the brewpub.

Bottle shared by ygtbsm94. Pours opaque with a medium, fizzy light tan head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is fragrant coffee, earthy hops, roast malt and dark fruity esters. Flavor is malt dominant, oak and light bourbon, spicy coffee, dark fruity esters and a dry finish. Full body, medium retention and carbonation.

I have waited a LONG time to try this. Bottle from Boutip. Thanks so much! Pours a inky black color into my DDC glass. Nice creamy head. Aroma is loaded with coffee, bourbon, chocolate, light roast and some vanilla. Flavor is so rich and decadent. Bourbon, oak, toffee, vanilla, coffee, dark chocolate...great carbonation. Great beer! For now this one completes the ratebeer top 100 for me.

2009-06-06. Black body with a huge creamy brown head. Massive coffee aroma, fresh coffee dominates over pretty much everything else but its nice somehow, even as a non-coffee drinker. (8+) Flavour is also coffee dominant, dry bitterness it actually seems like a lot more coffee and more bitter than I recall it being before. Light boozy undertones at times. Touch of wood? Not much, it might even be my imagination really. Coffee is rich but starts to be a bit much by the bottom of the glass. (8+) Smooth medium to full body is very smooth but feels less like it is on nitro than usual. (I’m curious to know how it was being served.) (4+) Very good even for a non-coffee drinker like myself. I didn’t really notice a lot of oak influence on it to be honest, but then I was kind of excited to try it, perhaps I finished it before it warmed up enough to truly reveal itself. Good stuff however you look at it. On tap at the brewpub, Montreal

Bottle, huge thanks to Dany for helping me in finding this huge wanted treat. Bottle #97. Pours a black body with a thin fleeting bubbly head no real retention. The aromatic character is rich with coffee an dark roastiness. Mild chocolate tones and coco with a light vanilla sweetness. Hints of wood, oak, and cream. The aromatics are truly decadent. A dark and roast y flavor with a subtle vanilla sweetness, oak and some light bourbon notes. Fresh coffee rinds despite age and a dry and slightly vanilla but more so roast y finish. A truly stellar beer, the only thing that could have made this better was more carbonation. Regardless this was, again a stellar offering.

Bottle courtesy of yggbsm94, thanks! Black, thin brown head, solid lacing. Aroma of spiked coffee, vanilla, dates. Taste is dark roasted coffee, chocolate syrup, subtle edge of whiskey. Very nice.

On tap at DDC 13th aniv party.
Aroma strong bourbon aroma, hints of brown sugars, some alcohol , caramel, dryness at finish.7+
Appearance dark amber, hazed garnet light. Medium rocky top, fizzy middle. Good lace. 4-
Flavor and Palate : Medium plus bodied ale. Chocolate, bourbon treatment afloat with thick sugars and thinning alcohol. Fairly low carbonation. Finishing with chocolate once more.