Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

Pours black as night with a light brown head. Aroma is straight espresso. Flavor adds a little complexity with cocoa nibs, and almost a black tea tannin aspect to the finish. Very nice.

(bottle from gunhaver) Pours black with a thick tan head that retains nicely and leaves sticky lacing. Aroma right off the bat is strong on dark roasted coffee, but chocolate and a light tart berry smell are present too. Upon warming, a sublte smokiness, graham cracker, and green pepper scent emerges, along with some vanilla. Further warming reveals some dark cherry. This is rather complex. Taste definitely features roasted coffee, but there’s also that tart berry-like flavor as well as some tastes of chocolate and toasted nut. The best quality of this beer is that it lacks the harsh astringency that some coffee stouts tend to possess. The finish is really roasty and chocolatey, bordering on smoky, with a bitterness appearing at the end. Smooth, substantial mouthfeel that makes it easy to drink. This is a well done integration of coffee and stout.

Bottle. Pours super dark black with a thick, foamy brown head. Aroma is full of coffee, chocolate, and vanilla. Lots of roasty malt notes come through as well. The flavor has more smoky notes than the aroma leads on, but it is full of dark chocolate, and a robust coffee finish that lingers forever. Mouthfeel is adequately thick. The lacing made black metal band logos.

Bottle shared at hellbillys hellraiser II. Pours a nice viscous thick black with a brown head. Aroma of coffee, barley, chocolate. Flavor of Coffee, barley, cocoa, chocolate. Lots of coffee in this one and quite delicious.

Bottle. Dark black pour. Obviously a strong coffee aroma; chocolate as well. Rich, dark coffee flavor, roasted malt and chocolate. Full body. Nice beer, but for me the coffee flavor overpowered everything else and limited the complexity of the beer.

2008 Bottle - Pours impossibly brown/black with a small tan head, aroma is burnt coffee, slightly hospital-like, that is the only negative...flavour is all coffee, bitter chocolate, more tobacco as it warms, leaves you with a great mouthfeel and bitterness in the back of your throat, glad I got a few to sit on, definite potential in the cellar...

Bottled
Pitch black, small steady expresso head. Very roasted, strong coffee beans aroma in the nose. Tobacco, coffee, some licorice. Ashy flavor. Full-bodied. Some hops in the otherwise coffeish-ashy aftertaste. Good impy, just a bit too much tobacco for my liking.

Yep...this is one of those beers that makes me glad to be alive. Thank whatever god exists in the Universe that this beer has finally made it to Washington. ’Nuff said.