Dieu du Ciel Route des Épices

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

Bottle@Home. Spicy aroma with nutmeg, laurel, lots of pepper and more. Brown color, beige irregular head, good lace. Light sweet, lots of pepper in the flavor as well, bitter, woody, laurel. Light sticky, hot glow, light dry. Well spiced but also well balanced.

Draught at the brewpub
Amber, thick head, light lacing. Nose of pepper, pepper and pepper. Light malt. The flavor is peppery as well. It’s incredible, it’s similar to a steak. The finish is intense because of the huge amount of spices. Good but not a beer I could drink much of.

Bottle from Champane Wine. Poured hazy brown color with an average off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate good smooth texture. Moderate pepper spicy complex flavor with a good complex smooth finish of modertate duartion. Good spicy brew.

Bottle. Thanks to Theis for sharing. Pours a slightly havy amber color with a small off-white head. Fruity malty spicy aroma with some peppery hints. Malty spicy pepper flavor. Long malty pepper finish with a burning peooery aftertaste.

Cloudy amber with a lasting off-white head. Caramel, and spice in the aroma, mostly pepper. Hot pepper flavour, with a little malt backbone. Burning throat finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy ruby coppery with 2-finger off-white head. Nose is rye bread, heavily black peppery, with caraway, mild hops. The flavor contains a massive amount of freshly ground black peppery flavor, plus some jalapeno oils, to a degree that it actually kicks the palate in the ass a bit. Amazing! Also has rye bready malt, caraway, and some caramel flavors that balance the black/jalapeno peppery notes nicely, but the pepper is the true star here. This is one of the more unique beers I have ever quaffed, and I enjoyed it immensely. I love peppery aromas and flavors if done well, and I’d say this is done truly well. This beer matched a Rocky Patel maduro cigar like a hand matches a glove.

Amber to light red in colour, with a pepper steak aroma! Dry malts come out throught the theick pepper crust, which leaves a tingling sensation on the tongue....just missing the steak. Good body....but not a quaffable beer. Good mark for interest.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, light brown, mostly lasting. Body is dark amber. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted bread, cookie), lightly hoppy (resin), lightly yeasty (cobwebs), with notes of allspice/clove/pepper, tangerine. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, lively carbonation, moderately burning. Neat, but a bit too much novelty for my liking. I like hot-spicy food, but a burning aftertaste in a beer just ain’t much fun. Pleasant aroma though.