Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

Brewed By: Dieu du Ciel in Montreal, Canada (Brewed and bottled by Microbrasserie Dieu du Ciel, St-Jérôme, Québec)

Purchased: Single 11.5oz botle bought at West Lakeview Liquors in Chciago, IL; 2013 

Style/ABV: Imperial Stout, 9.5%

Reported IBUs: ?

It's Sunday...ban Sunday, in fact. And the Bears lost. But at least we have tasty beer. About Dieu du Ciel: 

Dieu du Ciel is a brewery based out of Montreal, Canada, founded in 1998 by these guys. You can check them out on Facebook here, or at their website here. 

The Péché Mortel is an Imperial Coffee Stout, brewed using fair trade coffee. There's not much else info available, and the Dieu du Ciel website is ghetto and slow. Sometimes that's how it goes...

Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

The beer pours like most Imperial Stouts do: into a dark black body, kicking up one to two fingers of bready, dark tan/brown head. The head is sustaining nicely, and there is visible carbonation on the sides of the glass. There looks to be some lacing and legs too.

The aroma on this beer is very nice, with lots of meaty/smokey malts that is reminiscent of peated malts. There's a lot of caramel and sweet molasses on the nose, veering in the direction of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup and sweet cacao. There's also some subtle coffee on the nose, with instant coffee, coffee and creamer, and spent coffee grounds.

Wow...the taste goes in a less sweet direction than the nose, with tons of bitter coffee, earthy coffee, and ground coffee, and a firm malt base that includes some hints of smoke/smoked meats..hints of peated malt. I'm also getting a lot of hop bite in this, with some hints of pine and woody resin to compliment the earthy coffee. In the back of this is some hints of vanilla/creamer which compliments the coffee.

This is dense, slightly sticky, full-bodied stuff. Palate depth is great, with minimal soda-like carbonation often found in coffee beers. The complexity is primarily coffee-driven, with earthy bitter coffee atop some nice malts. It's not bad. This beer is very drinkable at 9.5%, but something you can sip on if you choose to. You get coffee and sweeter malts up front; that rolls into earthy coffee and hops; the back end trails off with coffee, creamer, and a dry and sticky finish. Nice.

Rating: Divine Brew (4.5/5.0 Untappd)

I'm feeling a very, very Light Divine Brew on this...this is another excellent coffee Stout, and I'm probably too generous with my scoring for beers in this style. But I looooveee these coffee beers. This is really enjoyable stuff, and would pair well with breakfast, an omelette, chocolate pancakes, dry chocolate cake, ice cream, or even a burger or grilled ribs. Really awesome stuff, and single bottles sell for around 5 bucks, which is a good steal. 

Random Thought: I've never contributed to BeerAdvocate, but with each new dramatic happening, I feel less inclined to participate.