Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

11.5oz bottle thanks to Kempleton (BA). Pours black as outer space witha lovely light-brown head. The head hung around to produce great lacing. Nose was of roast coffee and chocolate. Taste was roast coffee, chocolate, fruit and somewhat ashy. Mouthfeel was medium, but more of a wet feel, not the usual dry chalkiness often found in impy stouts.

11.5 oz bottle pours inky and opaque with an impressive brown head that strews some satiny sheets of lace on the snifter. Aroma is more subtle than expected but boasts black coffee, chocolate and black currants. Rich coffee dominates the taste, joined by lots of bittersweet chocolate and a fruity black currant note. Alcohol is concealed very well. One of the better coffee stouts around.

355ml bottle (Pikkulintu, Helsinki)
Jet black, large tan head, settles to a small ring. Coffee and sweet spicy peppers aroma. Taste matches the aroma - coffee and even more spicy peppers. Slightly fizzy on the tongue, otherwise quite sticky in the mouth. Swirling it softens it nicely. Covers the alcohol perfectly. Great sipper, but so tasty you want to glug it. The spicy sweet peppers wow me all the way to the bottom. And the coffee’s not caricatured, all very well balanced.

From a bottle pours a murky dark brown. big aroma of roasted coffee beans. taste is the same. a great coffee stout along with jah-va from ST. and the label is just great.

Pours an obsidian black with small beige head. Nose is most definitely coffee: earthy, nutty, roasted, with a hint of bitter chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, and herbal hops. Smooth and not too rich on the palate, again with the coffee up front, however as flavor progress greater depths reveal themselves: burnt toast, deep bready malts, milky toffee, and an espresso bitter finish. A delightful coffee stout.

Bottle. Aroma powerful with coffee right out of the bottle, but becomes surprisingly subdued. Completely charred malts as well. In the mouth, it’s of course very coffee, but with those charred malts hanging around burning off the tongue. Some sweetish chocolate in the background, but I had to search to find it. A dry finish that feels odd to me in such a big, bold-flavored beer. Very good, very interesting.

From a 12 ounce bottle from Belmont Station in Portland, OR--Poured a dark brown-black body with a thick whitish head. Massive coffee and chocolate nose. Sticky, thick, and bomby. Very rich and gritty. Chewy and heavy. This beer is more than all about coffee.

Notes of coffee and vanilla in the smell. Coffee comes in at the end. Lingering bitterness. Head for days and stays the entire drink. Very nice lacing. I don’t know how they manged to have so much head retention with all of the coffee oils. This is my new favorite coffee stout.