Dieu du Ciel Rigor Mortis Abt

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

[1798-20081017] Tap. Some Belgian bread yeast aroma with citrus flesh hops. Clear, dark red body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head and some lacing. Flavour base of sweet candied earth and a boozy kick. Full body. Assertive to the point of being overpowering, but good.
(Cask Days 2008 @ Volo; Toronto, ON)

Pours a deep brown/ruby with a small creamy head and thick lacing. Aroma is heavy with sweet malt, dark fruit, and some cherry and lighter sweet notes as well. Flavor is outstanding- extreme fruitiness including cherry, plum, raisin, and a tingly alcohol finish- sweetness is almost cloying, but not quite. Great palate, excellent abt.

Tap at the Brewpub: Pours deep amber/burgundy with a dense tan head. Cakey/sweet aroma- pastry like with too much sweetness and booziness. Maple and raisin come through. Big bodied, but not too sticky nor cloying. Lots of sweetness in the flavor- vanilla, brown sugar, maple, marzipan sweetness, caramelized dark Belgian malts, and a touch of roast in the lightly bitter finish. Some residual dark fruit qualities linger in the palate. Not bad, but I think I’m just tired of big sweet beers that posses no nuances nor subtleties.

On tap at Volo Cask Days 2008. Dark ruby, small white head. Greta aroma - boozy, dark fruit, sweet. Taste is stunning - tons of dark fruit, malt, sweetness and even a hint of chocolate. A complex sipper. Easily the best thing I had at Volo during the fest. I would actually like one right now during this cold snowy December.

Draught. At Volo Cask Days 2008. Clear mahogany pour, with a solid greenish-beige foamy-creamy lasting head. This one took a while to grow on me - I had several samples over 3+ days, and it got progressively better for me. The key word for this beer is ’’pungent’’ - I swear it smelled (and ever tasted) sweaty, whatever that means. Aroma was very sweet, persimmon, raisin, other fruit, a hint of chocolate and wood resin, moderate alcohol presence, extremely spicy and yeasty, a bit eccles cake-y. The taste was very hard to pin down, I got roast, booze, spruce resin, green fruit, yeast ... sweet, yes, but pungent (there’s that word again). Average body, strangely it was also a touch acidic, with a long sweet/spice pungent finish. After several samples I concluded this was quite complex - the pungency covers a lot of subtlety, and this is all the more impressive as this style usually suffers when tapped (I prefer ABTs bottled).

dark burgandy colored , nice tan head, nose is kinda woody, and fruity. flavor is boozy, dried fruits especially dried prunes and raisin, tad metallic. intresting would like a few bottles possibly to see if its better with age.

Draught at ’Volo Cask Days 2008’. Pours a clear deep orange-amber with a small somewhat-lasting off-white head. Aroma’s a little milder then expected but still quite nice -- with yeast, dark fruit, alcohol, spices and maple sugar. Flavour’s roasty along with brown or maple sugar, dark fruit, alcohol and a hint of coffee. Bitter finish. Gets sweeter the more you drink it. Good body for the style. Fantastic stuff!

Volo Cask Days 2008. On tap. Deep dark ruby pour. Sweet & boozy aroma filled with dried fruits, candi sugar sweetness. Taste is very boozy with loads of raisiny sweetness. Packs a punch.