Dieu du Ciel Rigor Mortis Abt

Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Montreal, Canada

A nice beer that is sugary sweet and mine was a bit oxidized I felt. Nevertheless I liked this one and the cherries and other dark fruits, plum skin, blueberries, were all present but not really balanced by much. It wasn’t a particularly crisp ale. A good beer but not a great one.

This dark brown ale poured with virtually no head and a fruity malt aroma. The flavor is also quite fruity with a lot of licorice and a faint alcohol trace. This brew is unique and very tasty.

Soft mousey brown, some haze, small white head. Aroma is more of a dubbel than a quad, not as supremely dense like I associate with other quads. Fresh oak and full abbey yeast aroma. I dunno, still reminds me of an abbey dubbel, not a quad. It’s not as dense or intense. Still good foggy yeast, dried cherry and oak. Alcohol only creeps in toward the finish. Very good beer, just not a great quad to me.

11.2oz bottle poured into a snifter. Pours a murky reddish brown with a small creamy beige head that sticks around as a cap and leaves some delicate lacing. The aroma is very sweet, with dark fruits, caramel and overarching Belgian yeast presence that offers a bit of spiciness in the nose. The taste is extremely sweet with candi sugar and dark fruits dominating. There is some chocolate noticeable in the taste that I could detect in the nose and the finish has an alcohol burn that takes a while to notice. The spiciness of the yeast really comes out as well. This is a fairly full-bodied beer, very smooth and complete coats the palate with sweetness which lingers for a long time. I’m highly impressed with this beer and think it is a great representation of the style, leaning heavily to the sweeter side of things. Big fan.

Bottle from SL. Dark brown in color, one finger size head. Nice aroma of spices, raisons, some brown sugar. Taste is a very nicely done quad. Lots of dark fruits, raisons, plums, brown sugar, and some spices. Nice sweetness in the after taste. Really easy to drink for over 10 percent. Great sipping beer. I will have to pick up some more to let a couple of these age.

Sampled form bottle. Pours dark brown with amber undertones. Aroma is of soft dry fruit, some toasted sugar, and caramel malt. Flavor is a smooth, smooth blend of sweet caramel, dates, spice and miscellaneous dried fruit. Finish lingers without an alcohol trace, really nice blend.

Draught sample at Volo Cask Days 2008. Deep mahogany, slightly turbid. Aroma of sweet malt, dark sugar and licorice. Flavour is quite sweet - candi sugar, perhaps? - with some dark fruit and well-aged whiskey notes, and spices in the warming finish. A touch too sweet, but still very good, and it went very well with some dark chocolate.

12oz brown glass twist-top. No date, but just arrived in Vermont a week ago (not that that’s a guarantee since we all know who imports it). Appearance: Poured into a Duvel tulip. 1 finger of tan head fades quickly leaving nothing. Cloudy medium brown color. Nose: Lots of fruitiness, from raisins to apricots, a little wool blanket. Promising. Palate: Medium-bodied and sharp with some acidity around the edges, like a granny smith apple soaked in old whiskey. Big fruitiness is sideswiped by the alcohol and clamors, stumbles around my palate before being shoved out the back door by the bouncers (boozey) and falling down my throat. Translation: This beer is bold and brash right now. I think it would do for some time to calm down all these aggressive fruits and booziness. But, to be honest, not sure if that will ever totally happen.