Dieu du Ciel Rigor Mortis Abt

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

Pours a beautiful ruby amber with a thick light tan head. Aroma of lemon, Belgian yeast, ripe fruit, berry, and toffee. Taste is some alcohol, caramel and berry. Thick molasses body with a roasty finish.

12-oz. poured blind. Clear and dark amber. Lightly sweet and softly nutty/smokey aroma. This was my favorite after the westy, beating St. Bernie by a point.

11.5 oz bottle rating. Pours a dark brown with a creamy vanilla head. Huge particalia noticed while pouring. Aromas of caramel, bread, dark fruit, vanilla. Definitely to style here. Very good sipper on a nice cold evening in front of the fire. It would be fun to see how this fares head to head against some of top belgian quadrupels. I’m guessing it would hold its own.

12oz bottle from west lakeview..... pours a dark caramel and raisin mostly opaque brown with a thick fluffy very light beige head.... aroma of dark and red fruits, raisins, toffee, and some added yeast notes... flavors continue on the same path with more robust sweet toffee and roasted malt. smooth medium to full body with softer carbonation which works well for it. finish adds a slight spicy bitterness. a nice quad that almost rivals the midnight sun one that i had a couple weeks back but falls just a bit short of that.

One of my favorite labels of all time, so it gets a bonus point for that. The pour was brown and cloudy into a Chimay glass. The head was off-white and creamy but quickly receded and left little if any lacing behind. The aroma was roasted malts and dark fruits. Minimal yeast. The flavor too was dominated by what tasted like roasted malts, maybe it was burnt sugars? Again very little yeast profile. Some old chocolate. Medium in body with pleasant warming alcohol towards the end.

Hazy brown with a fizzy white head. Raisin, brown sugar, and Belgian yeast aroma and taste with some floral and molasses notes. Decent.

THOUGHTS: Very Belgian and very nice. It was like a dubbel on steroids. Hid alcohol fairly well for the ABV, but could benefit from more aging. Really tasty. This was great. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a medium to dark brown with slight orange highlights and a very small, off-white head that mostly diminished and left fair lacing. The aroma was moderate caramel malt and candy sugar; light to moderate doughy yeast; along with raisin, apple, red wine, brown sugar and alcohol. The initial flavor was sweet; while the finish was rather sweet, acidic and ever so slightly bitter. There was caramel, candy sugar, prune, raisin, yeast, more prune, brown sugar and spices. The medium body was a little oily and then dry with rather fizzy carbonation and a lightly astringent and moderately alcoholic finish.

This cola brown beauty shows absolutely no evidence of its 10.5 percent abv. The nose is rather weak with brown sugar and chocolate. Slight banana and dark fruit with a hint of chocolate. This is an extremely well made beer with little complexity.