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Brewed by Dieu du Ciel
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Montreal, Canada

Dark coppery colored with little yellow head. Aroma has some rhubarb with obvious pepper, slight chocolate also present. Medium bodied. Flavor starts with same vegetables and berries, aftertaste is strongly peppery, and it lasts, I can tell. Well, this pepper is new thing for me, interesting still.

11.5 ounce bottle. Interesting aroma of black pepper, with sweet fruit, rye, and flower like scents. Visual is dark amber body with a thin creamy and lasting head. This is a really unique beer. I’ve only had a few other pepper beers, but this seems nothing like them. I’m glad I purchased.

My favorite rye beer is Terrapin. I must say, this smells nothing like Terrapin Rye. You can actually smell the pepper. It is fairly pungent, which is a good twist to the rye beer. The pepper smell is not so much your regular black pepper that you would use fora meal. The pepper almost has a sweet smell to it. There is oddly a nice balance of sweet malt aroma with the pepper. A nice interesting twist on aroma here. This beer is almost opaque, but really I would consider it a translucent dark caramel brown. The beer has a nice thin head that sits on top of the beer for a few minutes. Wow, that pepper surely adds a peppery taste. It is a little powerful on the pepper. My mind is so focused on that flavor I am really not able to taste the bitter, or malty part of the beer. I get pepper all over the front of my mouth, and in the back of my throat that I cannot taste the other flavors. I don’t like that part of the beer. The beer is very smooth, and has a decent texture. I am not a fan of this one simply because of the damn pepper taste. I like spice/herb/vegetable beers for their use of spices, but this one just puts the pepper as number one. The other flavors aren’t given the chance to come through. Interesting beer, but I don’t want to pay 4$ to drink pepper water.

Bottled: Pours out deep red/amber color with minimal head. You can smell the spices but not overpowering. It being my first rye beer, I wasn’t sure what to expect along the lines of taste. To me, it was an interesting beer. The taste faded slowly from the palate, to almost nothing then the peppercorns became noticeable. It left a light tingling of the peppercorns in the back of the tongue.

Wow. Seriously. Solid rye base with lots of pepper on the nose. But not the black pepper you buy by the pound, this is the uppity whole peppercorn that the guy at the Olive Garden twists and grinds out over your salad on Sunday night. Amber rose, creamy head, barely tan. Loads of hot, biting, spicy pepper in the sip. Modest alcohol and a lack of carbonic bite allow for the pepper punch to not get out of control. I want to put this in potato salad, on steak and in a pan with brauts. Unique, specific, and without apology.

Botle. Packs a powerfull aroma of pepper. Murky amber body with thin head. Spice and pepper with enogh malt to thicken the body of beer. Thin this would of been an overspice up brew. Alrigh but filling pepery bitter beer.

Bottle courtesy of gethinbeer. Deep amber beer with a thick off-white head. Aroma is lightly malty and a little bit toasty with a soft biscuity note as well. Lots of strong black pepper in the nose as well. Soft sweet with a lingering black pepper flavour on the back. Fairly spicy showing a fair amount of heat towards the finish. Pretty good brew, if a little bit simple.

A - strong peppercorn nose with what smells like gardening bark and some cinnamon 7 V - cloudy dark orange hue with a thin cover head and slight lacing 3+ T - malts become more noticable on taste fading into an intense peppercorn flavor 7 P - somewhat fizzy, which seems to make the peppercorns more active. 2 O - strong hot pepper makes this a nice change of pace, certainly a noticeable taste, but also prevents it from being sessionable