Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: OCT 19, 2007 Fresh :
Tremendously rich coffee cake, as thick as tar...Overwhelmingly sensuous icing that lasts forever...The fattest milk chocolate... Absolute equilibrium of roasted malt bitterness, coffee beans and dessert sweetness...I want this to be my birthday cake...

2-year-old from bottle purchased to drink on the premises :
A bit less creamy and decadent than the tap version, but the body is all that is affected...The generous coffee beans still love their well-endowed milky chocolate and their monogamous communion just never ends...Truly in a league of its own...

First batch bottled for Shelton Brothers, exported to the US:
Where is my Péché Mortel? I have had every batch of this, and on numerous occasions, yet I don’t recognize my Péché Mortel. Near violent roastiness blends malt and coffee beans well. Bitterness is of mythic proportions and carbonation is much livelier than any other batch I’ve had. But where is my Péché Mortel? Where is the tiramisu cake icing? Where is the sweet crème brûlée? Where is the truffle mousse? Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t bad by any means, but this is NOT the beer that deserved a place in this site’s Top 50.

Cask:
This is as smooth as the nitroed version, but perhaps silkier. Extremely easy drinking, dangerously so. This "in the nude" version is as delicious and effortless as the regular version, and showcases the beer’s true virtues for those who thought nitro was masking most of its character. Back roastiness may linger longer, or appear to. This is a marvelous creation, any way you look at it.

Newly bottled batch (oct.2007):
the nose is full of roasted coffee beans. Mouthfeel is rich but not obese, rendering drinkability to this nourishing imperial stout. Malt roastiness and coffee are seamlessly integrated, creating a chocolate espresso paradise. The finish is quite bitter, but not overwhelming; just a pleasant continuation of the elaborate and near decadent flavor profile. A Dieu du Ciel masterpiece!

Tap @ CBC. Deep brown color with no head. The nose is light bitter chocolate and roasted malts, booze-soaked wood. The taste is chocolate espresso beans, cherry liqueur, Very sweet and heavy. Brown sugar. The body’s full, plenty of sugar (diiiiabeetus!) and booze. Soft, viscous and oily. Very nice, though a bit flabby.

Tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Pours pitch black with a creamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate, nuts. Taste is roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate, caramel, nougat, sweet chocolate ice, light booze. Full body, smooth creamy mouthfeel, low carbonation, light alcohol in the finish. 120512

Strong coffee smell, almost a bit of bourbon or dark chocolate. All follow in the taste, extremely dark, rich and strong. Almost impossible to stop drinking, one of the best stouts out there. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

On tap @ Copenhagen Beer Celebration. Pours a jet black body with a medium creamy beige head. Nose is intense mocha/filter coffee tones with powdery chocolate hints. Nice, but I’d like a bit more complexity. Taste is mocha, filter coffee, dark chocolate and hints of nougat. Velvety mouthfeel which feels occasionally disrupted by bursts of carbonation. Strange. A very nice coffee-based imp stout, but I do feel it’s a bit overrated.

Fantastic coffee stout. Rich earthy sweet coffee flavors along with some chocolate and toasted malts.

En riktig höjdare. Intensiv, kraftig och fyllig smak av framförallt kaffe och då menar jag kaffe på riktigt. Len och krämig och med en balanserad eftersmak. En liten efterrättspärla till stout.

Sample at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012. Black with a beige head of large bubbles that leaves behind dime nice lacing. Aroma is coffee, licorice, oak, vanilla. Medium body, slightly slick mouthfeel, bitter coffee finish. Taste is coffee, chocolate, vanilla, toast.

Black with nice tan head. Heavy coffee in the nose, roasted malty notes and chocolate and vanilla. Sweet and roasty, loads of coffee, some vanilla and nutty malts. Full to medium body, nice carb

Aroma, light with alcohol, roast coffee, pours black with persistent brown head with some lace. Taste coffee right up front with chocolate, malts. some alcohol comes through. Palate bitter, dry. Excellent imperial lives up to hype

(Sample from tap at CBC) Pours pitch black with medium, toffee head. Impressive retention and lace. Aroma is roasted malt, licorice, coffee and something chalky? Oily texture bordering on creamy, full body, soft carbonation and a dark, roasted finish.