Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: OCT 29, 2007 Re-Rate 09-07. Cask @ Cask Days 2007. Black body with a small creamy tan head. Huge aroma of spent coffee grounds (7+) Very bitter roast coffee flavour, coffee is dramatically dominant. Creamy palate. 7+/4/6-7/4/14 - 3.7 <P> Re-Rate 08-05 Bottle rated July 2006. Black body yields a good sized tan head with a relatively vigorous pour. Massive aroma of dry coffee with tiny hints of woody vanilla. Very very dry flavour, with very prominent coffee, and lingering roasty malt. Smooth medium palate is quite nice but noticeably lacks the nitrogen aided transcendence of the draft version. Very nice, but as noted before, I miss the chocolate of my first encounter. 8/4/7/4/15 - 3.8<P> Re-Rate RBSG 2005. Draft, 2005 vintage I believe. Black body pours a lovely cascade, with a big billowy beige head that persists forever. Gorgeous thickness and lacing coats the glass – when OKBeer transferred his to a tulip glass the neglected glass remained coated for some time! Flavour is coffee dominant with a healthy does of the roasty coffee bitterness that I was glad was muted in my previous sample. Roast overshadows that creamy chocolate I had so loved previously. Full creamy body coats the palate and the glass like paint. I am torn because as glorious as this sample was it failed to delight as much as the aged version I had prior. 7-8/4-5/7-8/5/17-18 <P>Original Rating 2002 vintage Draft. Tasted at DDC June 4th, 2004. Pitch black body with luxuriously creamy tan head which gives forth a nutty chocolatey aroma. Black velvet rolls across the palate giving glimpses of coffee roastiness amidst a prevalent mocha character. I’m told it uses Fair Trade coffee which only serves to further my appreciation for this beer. 8/5/9/5/18 - 4.5

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.