Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

I don’t understand how this is rated so highly... don’t get me wrong, it’s "pretty good" but there’s nothing special about this... It’s dominated by coffee in the aroma and flavor, loads of roastyness... medium light mouthfeel... clean palate... this feels like a 6% alc beer, and you really don’t notice any alcohol at all... Nice stuff, just not that good

Pours opaque brown black. The frothy tan head has good retention, leaves a sticky lacing. First bit of aroma is caramel and aroma, and then the coffee kicks in, oily, aromatic, and lasting. Flavor is principally espresso, and a lot of it. There’s enough coffee here that if you want, you can ignore the thickness, roastiness, and alcohol of it all, and pretend it’s an iced americano. Underneath all the coffee, there’s roasted bitterness, and a bit of caramel sweetness to balance it. Full bodied, creamy, slightly tannic. Delicious but noticeably one-dimensional towards the coffee department.

My mouth is a coffee bean roaster. A dark black beer with little to no head. Aroma of roasted, alcohol, & coffee beans. The taste is roasty toasty coffee beans, & bitter. It is like your mouth is a coffee bean roaster. Like tasting coffee without much sugar because in no way is this beer sweet. What I find so good about this beer is not that it tastes like a coffee drink but you can taste the beans in a nice raw sort of way.

Pours nearly opaque, and black by all appearances. Head is medium brown and doesn’t last long. Nose is chocked full of dark chocolate, 3 Muskateers nougat, and espresso beans. Palate has more dark roasted coffee, espresso or Vienna roast perhaps, bittersweet chocolate, and some roasty malt flavors. Hops are there but you can’t get past the joy of the dark roasted coffee flavors. Great example of the style. Few coffee stouts pull off this dark roast profile so well.

A nose of sawdust, regular dust, coffee and vanilla. Taste is of vanilla, grinded coffeebeans, sugar and dark chocolate. It’s dusty and roasted, but also sweet and bitter. Maybe the acidity is a bit too present, but otherwise this really is a contender in the category of " best coffee stout ".

If there is one thing I can say about these beers from Dieu, they are very well balanced. For this beer, one word: Extraordinary! Typical black color where a slight amount of light shines through on the edge of the glass. Great lasting head which coats the glass like a blanket. Coffee with cream is the predominant smell here...lots black patent malt. Like the smell, this is a milked coffee beer. Great body; simply superior in every way in that it provides a blend that, at a slower pace, is exquisite.

Pours viscous dark brown, black in the glass, with a medium-thin tan head, fine lacing. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, plum, molasses, oak, with a slight earthy edge. Full bodied, smooth, slightly dry. Strong dark-roast coffee flavor, big malt sweetness up front with chocolate, toffee, pine and grass. Medium bitter finish.

11.5oz bottle. Pours black in color with thin brown head which does not last long. Aroma dark chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Taste strong roasted, coffee and dark chocolate with bitter finish.