Péché Mortel (Imperial Stout Au Cafe) - Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel

GnomeKing

Pennsylvania

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

First off, I love coffee and always drink it black. That's good, because this beer was pitch black too.

I thought Peche Mortel was kick ass. The rich coffee and espresso flavors were complemented by hints of chocolate and nuts. The aftertaste was nicely sweet. Sure, it's a sipping beer, but it's still pretty drinkable. I didn't experience the overwhelming aftertaste or flavors of ashtrays and so on that others mentioned.

The mouthfeel was actually a little on the thin side. In many cases, that might detract from the beer, but in this case, I think it helped make the beer smoother and easier to drink.

NOTE: This was the batch released in October 2005. I'm not sure how the various batches relate and/or differ.

(Swigged with great joy at this batch's NY debut at Spuyten Duyvil)

Serving type: on-tap

10-24-2005 18:52:20 | More by GnomeKing

ppoitras

Massachusetts

4.78/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

22oz bottle from pentathlete, thanks for the opportunity! 11/04 bottling date notched in marker along side of label.

Poured into an imperial pint glass carefully, and still formed a 3 1/2" dark brown head over the totally opaque dark brown/black brew. Head fades oh-so slowly, with HEAVY foamy cappucino-type lacing. Aroma is deep, rich coffee. Taste begins with a sweet dark maltiness that is quickly overpowered by the same rich coffee flavors indicated by the nose. Closes with dry coffee grounds in the mouth, and not a bit of alcohol indications. Mouthfeel and drinkability are exemplary, especially for the style. Search this one out, if you needed to be told again...

Serving type: bottle

09-05-2005 01:51:20 | More by ppoitras

blitheringidiot

Pennsylvania

4.38/5  rDev -0.9%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Review # 666.

660 cL bottle (should be a 666 cL) demarcation: Brewed '04 stamp and no notch for a 1-12 month designation. Some 1/8" settled scrod in the bottom of the bottle that I gave the upheaval on the last pour. The cap had 21-5 inside a crown indention and "12" over "B4" inside the inside of the black cap???

What the Duece! Excorcised into a Lucifer tulip with an India ink buh-lack opaque pour giving up no ghosts of light against the heavenly light. An angelic obfuscous offering reverse cascading capped with a thick spumescent dark brown statuesque head cap resembling whipped cream and sugar that my Grandma makes. Thick spongy spotty lace left in the glass.

Earthy minerally coffee espresso scents that simply revolve around percolated java joe juice. Similar scents to Bell's Kalamazoo Stout. Some tobacco notes of cigar ash and BBQ charcoal.

First swigs: Like eating a chocolate covered coffee bean, dunked in an espresso that housed an ashtray. Not much more to add. Eternally lingering coffee grounds and cigar ash finish. A dirty ashtray aftertaste.

Feel is full bodied with a wicked bitter astringent mouth drying feel. Gentle rolling carbonation that leaves a tongue coating thick finish. To rate this drinkability:
1- The bottle kicked easily
2- I'd buy another tomorrow if I could
3- Enjoyable flavor that can't be found elsewhere

Last swigs: A cigar was extinguished into my double espresso. Not the most "coffee" aromas ever noticed, but the "most" coffee flavors. If this sinful beer is heaven to you, Weyerbacher Black Hole will get you into purgatory with the black strap molases flavor. After drinking an bottle, don't bother tasting anything else for a week to ten days. I feel so spoiled since last night we all split a FFF DL bottle. As my fellow BA GeoffFromSJ once said, complexity over intensity can be the most enjoyable beer experience. This is INTENSE!!! and since I am a coffee junky to the Nth degree, Péché Mortel is a dark delight. An adumbration celebration. If you can't get your mits on Péché Mortel, boil a quart of water with an entire 64 oz. can of Folgers and chill. Thanks to GeoffFromSJ for the chance to "kick over the traces, shatter the Decalogue" and check out this Mortal "Fish." ( <--- sorry PopeDX) Not to show-off my French, but how this is a deadly "ordinate of the endpoint of an arc of a unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1, 0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative" is beyond me.

Beer is good - NO! EVIL!!! Happy EVIL sinful beering. (4.44/44) Moo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

Serving type: bottle

08-28-2005 04:10:56 | More by blitheringidiot

goodbyeohio

Oregon

3.85/5  rDev -12.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

(putting on my body armor in preparation for this review)

thanks, hugely, to the moan and dove for tracking down a keg and hooking it up nice at proper temps with decent sized pours. served in a handled mug.

bottom is settled and some clarity can be seen in the top 10% of this beer.. something reddish black. still head is slight and creamy, off white-approaching beige. aroma is pure coffee grounds, like opening up the garbage when you get home from work, seeing the waste from the coffee pot and being struck with that odor. some nuttiness as well, leading to a sweeter nose. perhaps chicory. surprisingly leans more toward nescafe instant than starbucks sumatran. taste begins as the expected coffee bomb, in the form of a fancy coffee drink... like a dunkin donuts frappucino. for a coffee stout, this is a flawless example of what you would expect. the hype and quality dwells on the depth and richness of the coffee flavor and lack of inhibiting bitterness. milkstoutlike creamy sweetness reminds me more of nutrasweet in my coffee than malt in my beer.

g/f thinks this is too 'alcoholey,' but i dont get that at all, maybe im too conditioned to big beers. sure, its smooth and drinkable, but there's not much more to it. maybe the best of the coffee stouts (not the best if you count dark lord), but that would only really matter to a coffee stout head... which i am not. a perfectly quaffable and enjoyable beer. next time i have $8 to spend, and its between this and a chalice of st bernardus abt 12 or another staple big beer, ill skip by the peche mortel...

Serving type: on-tap

08-22-2005 21:04:22 | More by goodbyeohio

egajdzis

Pennsylvania

4.53/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Bottle 11/04... Explosive, poured opaque black color with a medium sized tan head that left nice lacing on the glass. Great aroma of coffee, chocolate, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, and anise. More of the same in the taste, lots of coffee and light alcohol. High quality beer, I actually am excited to try this on nitro, because as others have said, the extra carbonation is the only drawback.
Nitro Draft 7/05... Creamy mouthfeel with a great balance of chocolate and roasted coffee malts. Faint alcohol in the background. Now I see what the big deal is.

Serving type: nitro-tap

08-05-2005 18:12:31 | More by egajdzis

mentor

Colorado

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5

Bomber provided by PatYoda...thanks for the opportunity! Bottle date = 11/04. Pours a one finger walnut brown head over a stark black liquid. Dark even when held to light. Smells woody coffeeish (a little bit like french roast coffee) and vanilla. A hint of something...not quite terpentine, but in that line. In context with the other flavors, it's not a negative, it's interesting. Tastes rich coffee, but also a really rich chocolate. Like crunching on a couple coffee beans while holding a mouth full of sweet dark chocolate. There is a bitter from the coffee and/or roasted barley, but the wet sweet of the chocolate counters it to the point that the aftertaste leaves my mouth watering for more candy. Too bad my wife wasn't around when I cracked open this one...she would have loved it. I've only had one glass (I shared the bomber with absolutesites), but it's quite filling. Alcohol burn is barely noticable during the swallow, as it mixes with the coffee bitter that is covered by the chocolate. Very intense flavors, but only flavors of coffee and chocolate...not much else. Considering the intensity of the flavors, I would have expected the body to be more than medium. Also in the mouthfeel, I should note the aftertaste almost felt like there were tiny pulverized bits of roast floating around in the chocolatey nectar that hung on my tongue. Carbonation is moderate and the head has hung around until the very end. Both the smell and taste are very enticing and I kept putting the glass to my mouth immediately after drawing it away from the last sip. This could become a banned substance someday.

Serving type: bottle

07-15-2005 22:21:03 | More by mentor

BrewMaster

California

4.78/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Appearance: Price tag says $17.49 from Wine Warehouse. Poured from a 22 oz bomber in to a 25 oz crystal sniffer glass. The beer is intensely black in color and looks like a helping of thick soy sauce. Yum. The first thing I really notice is the big, fluffy, brown head. It is creamy and thick and dark. It looks like it has a skin on top as the head settles and just sits there like a rock. The head leaves a thick, grainy lacing on the side of the glass. The head is damn near frightening. It is menacing and it would probably kick your ass if you look at it cross-eyed. Good thing I didn't.

Smell: The nose is strong coffee of espresso-like potency. There is a light scent of dark chocolate too.

Taste: Sweet and creamy with lots of coffee flavor. There is brown sugar, dark chocolate and a dry roastiness that borders on burnt. Light hop bitterness sits near the end with some fruitiness that resembles black cherries.

Mouthfeel: Dry and sandy but still smooth and thick. Very full bodied creamy.

Drinkability: This is an all around great beer. Of course, if you like coffee, this is indeed your beer. On the flip side if you hate the taste of coffee, stay away. This beer combines dark chocolate and espresso flavors wonderfully. Very tasty.

Serving type: bottle

07-05-2005 18:45:30 | More by BrewMaster

DrJay

Massachusetts

4.75/5  rDev +7.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Inky black beer topped by a thick, fluffy, chocolate coloured head. Superb head retention that resulted in thick clumps of foam sticking to the sides of the glass. Absolutely gorgeous. The aroma can be summed up as espresso with some other stuff thrown in, like bitter chocolate, rich malty sweetness, and a bit of ripe, dark fruits. But it's mostly about the espresso, just like the flavour. Espresso and roasted grains dominate, with bitter chocolate and hop bitterness providing balance, along with sweet maltiness. The finish is dry and roasty with some alcohol warmth that lingers and is a bit peppery to start. The moderate carbonation melded perfectly with the rich, full body, creating a creamy texture that provides a nice contrast to the roasted dryness. As bold as the flavours and aromas are, it is remarkably well-balanced and highly drinkable. The surprising part for me is that I'm not a coffee drinker at all, but I really enjoyed this beer. If Dieu du Ciel only offered this one beer, it would be well worth a trip to the brewpub (even from Toronto).

Enjoyed at the brewpub after an afternoon at the Mondial. Aged for one year, labeled as #42 from Avril, 2004.

Serving type: bottle

06-21-2005 03:23:54 | More by DrJay

clvand0

Kentucky

4/5  rDev -9.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Pours a very dark color with a tall, creamy head that has good retention and leaves some lacing on the glass. The aroma makes me think oatmeal coffee stout. The flavor has a lot of coffee and a lot of dark malts, but the alcohol is very apparent. It's a nice big, malty coffee stout, but it has too much alcohol in the flavor, makes it slightly burny. The mouthfeel is a little more thin than I would like it, but still moderate to thick. Drinkability is ok. Don't think I could do a whole bottle of this.

Serving type: bottle

06-16-2005 14:17:47 | More by clvand0

kmpitz2

Tennessee

4.8/5  rDev +8.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

SHIT. We have a gusher. Insane exploding that was only kept from a steady flow out of the top by the bottlecap still slightly over the top. I have not had this problem with many beers in the past.

After diverting the overflow, the beer pours a jet black color with a 2 finger tan head taht subsides to a quarter inch over the liquid. Very intense black color.

The nose is intense. Big blast of coffee grounds mingle with figs and a nice puff of alcohol. Big big aromas here.

The flavor is right there with the aroma. Big coffee bitter from start to finish with a small sweet figgyness just popping out right after swallowing the beer. The aftertaste is slightly chocolate sweet, but mostly dark roasted coffee.

The feel is the only let-down. Its moderate, not big and thick. I want this beer to be just big and chewy. It needs more body.

Drinkability is very good for a 9% ABV. There is only a light warming in my stomach, and a light puff in nose. Very good beer. The flavor is intense but not offensive. Too bad this was my only bottle. I won't hold the gushing against this beer.

Serving type: bottle

06-15-2005 23:44:19 | More by kmpitz2

SheepNutz

Kentucky

4.55/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Holy shit! Thanks to Kev for sharing this one. 22oz. bomber that spewed for 30 seconds upon opening, then poured into a snifter. It pours a deep jet black color with two fingers of medium tan head. There's a good amount of lacing. The smell is so incredibly strong, with lots of espresso and a touch of chocolate. There's some candied plums too. The taste is very rich and malty. There's lots of roasted malt with lots more coffee coming through. A warm mocha finish with just a tad bit of alcohol. The mouthfeel is nice and thick, and for 9%, the drinkability is through the roof. A damn fine beer. Thanks again to Kevin, I owe him bigtime!

Serving type: bottle

06-15-2005 23:32:15 | More by SheepNutz

Sephiroth

Indiana

5/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Bottled in 11/04: The initial pour goes into a large tulip with about an inch and a half of foam. The head leaves clumps of lace on the sides of the glass.This beer mantains a fifth of an inch of head throughout the session. The nose is one of coffee and roasted malt. Light bitterness is percieved.

This beer tastes of coffee above all else. I like my coffee as Ilike my beers, that is fully flavored and over the top. I detect more chocolate flavor as I progress through the bomber. This is beginning to look more and more like a frothy cup of coffee. It tastes not as though someone just put 2 packs into the coffee maker; it tastes of gourmet coffee. I deduct a half point only because this brew is one dimensional in flavor.

Although this is my first review, I must give this beer a five for mouthfeel. Its texture is that of a rootbeer float with lots of melted ice cream in it. It is simply world class. The drinkability is good for the style. I have drained this bottle with efficiency but would certainly not drink another in the same sitting. If you find a bottle for less than $20, consider yourself lucky and buy every last one of them.

Edit: As this was my first review, I was afraid to give fives. But, after my second bottle, and a little more experience reviewing beers, I feel less ripped off for my $25. The flavor is certainly not one-dimensional, but perhaps like mixing a Rogue Imperial Stout 01 with a Perkuno's Hammer from the cask with a lot of good coffee. Awesome. I think I'll make some pancakes with good Canadian maple syrup to go on top.

Serving type: bottle

06-12-2005 07:48:20 | More by Sephiroth

bultrey

New York

3.58/5  rDev -19%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Niec opaque brown/black with a fluffy tan head that receds to a small edging of tan foam around the side of the glass.
Incredibly fruity coffee bean aroma, and I mean like freshly roasted beans. Slight alcohol aroma is there too, making for a coffee liqueur-type aroma.
The taste, in my opinion, is all coffee, no beer. I get some chocolate-covered espresso beans, and maybe some other dark fruits covered with dark cocoa. A very dry roasty finish, like good coffee without sugar or cream.
Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy.
M-e-h. Meh.
Don't get me wrong. I like coffee in beers, especially the Speedway Stout. But whereas that beer finds balance in its addition of coffee, this one takes it wayyyy over the top. It's good coffee, mind you, and this is a unique, well-crafted beer. But I find it to be overhwelmingly unbalanced. If I wanted an espresso, I'd go to Starbucks.
And when you factor price into the equation, this beer is wildly overrated.

Serving type: bottle

06-01-2005 01:54:49 | More by bultrey

OtisCampbell

Massachusetts

4.2/5  rDev -5%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Poured from bottle (11/04 freshness date) into my pint NERAX tumbler a bit below room temp this beer formed a good inch of medium coarseness head. Smell immediately reminds me of chocolate covered espresso beans. The head collapsed to a solid quarter inch with light brown lacing down the sides of the glass. The taste is immediately that of chocolate malt and coffee beans fading into cherry tart on the back of the tongue but the taste of coffee never really surrenders. A swig is pretty silky on the tongue with a mat of light carbonation raised as it passes into the throat. Overall a pretty entertaining and interesting brew (if you're into coffee) but I think the espresso taste kind of overshadows a lot of potential subtlety for me. Purchased for $16 at Uptown Liquors in Davis Square...

Serving type: bottle

05-14-2005 21:25:14 | More by OtisCampbell

carln26

Missouri

4.25/5  rDev -3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Deep black in color with slight ruby highlights. It was topped with a thick, clingy tan head made of oversized carbonated bubbles. The nose hits you with a sharp coffee/espresso aroma up front followed by chocolate a little cherry and roasted malt. WOW, a lot of coffee in the aroma. The heavy coffee aroma allows you to breath it in as you drink the beer. The coffee is followed quickly by a tangy citrus hop character, then the roast malt, and finally some cherry chocolate on the finish. There is a mild bitterness that retains for a while. The beer is thick and rich, and has a decent drinakbility. The sharp bitterness detracts just a little.

Serving type: bottle

05-10-2005 23:14:16 | More by carln26

PatandDavid

Massachusetts

5/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Shared a bottle of this at The Publick House with fellow BAs David and Westmalle. Folks, if the price of this beer scares you (whether retail or at a beer bar) All I can say is:1. It's worth it. 2. And why not share the bottle? I would order this up at the Publick House again, no problem.
One initial impression of this beer is: it's a one note beer. It is a coffee beer on steroids, and if you love good rich satisfying coffee (and beer), then it's one to be savored. If you don't, order something else. Pours were noire, with a lovely 1/4 inch coffee crema style head. Aroma was full of wonderful things like cocoa nibs, dark roastiness, raw beer. Sorta great European coffeehouse meets low earthiness. Taste for me was a total espresso experience, some astringency, dark roastiness, again cocoa nibs. The body stands up to this overwhelming taste experience. My only small complaint was that it was hard to find the beer in there. On the other hand, this is a one of a kind tasting experience which I'm glad I got to indulge in.

Serving type: bottle

05-07-2005 17:34:18 | More by PatandDavid

Truh

New Hampshire

4.15/5  rDev -6.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

No doubt guilty of gluttony, and more, with this one on 5/6/2005. 1 pt. 6 fl. oz. bomber poured twice in a shaker glass.

Thick, billowing inch-high bed of froth and coffee milkshake fluff; beautiful lace and quantity stick throughout. Pitch black hue with some almost imperceptible bubbling apparent at the circumference. Coffee grinds are huge on the nose, just giant, with the associated smokiness/roasted character; black licorice and earthy anis; very muddy kind of tones, but healthy mud, if that is possible, maybe truffle-like. Wild coffee presence on the mouth immediately, just sticky, with a baker’s chocolate chalkiness soothing the roast a little; the aforementioned aspects completely mask the not insubstantial alcohol. Meaty mouthfeel that sticks, slips, and slides all over.

As a coffee lover, this is truly amazing. A trip north of the border may be in order.

Serving type: bottle

05-07-2005 03:39:43 | More by Truh

BeerResearcher

Massachusetts

4.4/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

22.3oz dark brown bottle. Bottled on 11/04.
It pours a roofing tar black with a big frothy tan head.
A strong aroma of Kalua jumps right out. The smell of dark roasted malt and light background smell of cut hay peeks through.
Strong coffee with cream and sugar, dark roasted barley malt, Ovaltine, brown bread, and dark chocolate all vie for attention.
The hops are nearly equally complex, if a bit more subdued than the big malty character of this brew. Tastes of mixed citrus and peppery spices provide the sharp edged bitter kick.
The warming sweet coffee alcohol soothes and finishes like a fine dessert.
Rich and silky mouthfeel!
YUM!
$15.95 for the bottle is a bit extravagant though!

Serving type: bottle

05-02-2005 03:29:42 | More by BeerResearcher

wyllder

Massachusetts

3.88/5  rDev -12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Ok,

Had this one a while back at The Moan and Dove. It didn't occur to me to review it until I came here and saw how highly it's ranked in the American Double Stout style.

It pours an opaque deep-chocolate brown, bordering on black with a fuzzy caramel head.

Nose is coffee through and through. There's a bit of chocolate buried in there somewhere, but otherwise the coffee comes out like you're sniffing a Starbuck's iced dark roast.

Taste is, well, nothing I would write home about. In short, way too much coffee and way too little stout. It's got a dark character that comes through, and it's by no means unpleasant, but I just never got any alcohol or hop character from it to indicate I was drinking a stout. Kudos to them on hiding the 9.0% abv, but it came across to me as much more of a "flavored" beer than it did a stout, and left me rather disappointed.

Mouthfeel & drinkability were both good.

And that's about it.

Wyll-

Serving type: on-tap

04-29-2005 20:49:51 | More by wyllder

bnuttz

Wisconsin

4.75/5  rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Pours a dark crimson black with a light tannish colored head, with large carbonation bubbles. Smells of sweet java, coffee beans, espresso, maybe some chocolate burried beneath all of the coffee aromas. Taste is pure coffee. There is a definite nutty background to the brew. You can almost literally taste the caffeine in this beer. This thing definitely packs two buzzs at once. The mouthfeel is a little thinner than I would prefer for a stout like this. Make this puppy a little creamier and I would lap it up all the time. A nicely drinkable stout, they didnt over do this one. The price definitely hurts. I could get a lot more breakfast stout for the same price. A worthwhile try definitely, especially if you are into coffee.

Serving type: bottle

04-28-2005 01:26:49 | More by bnuttz

Wildman

Ohio

4.45/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

This beer poured as black as the night and formed a huge dirty tan foamy head coated the glass with lace as it subsided. A good deal of carbonation is present. The aroma really smacks you over the head with expresso coffee, malt and a slight peanut odor. The flavor was of malt, coffee and chocolate. The body was creamy, but a bit on the thin side for the style. The warming aspect of the alcohol level is present in the slightly burnt coffee finish. A great beer, but at the current pricing, I would be hard pressed to have this on more than just a rare occasion.

Serving type: bottle

04-23-2005 02:27:35 | More by Wildman

techcommdood

New York

4.9/5  rDev +10.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

I was at Mahar's in Albany NY on a Monday night, and in the course of conversation Bill (bartender extraordinaire) mentioned this particular beer. Having just purchased my last round for the evening, I made a mental note and came back last night to try it.

In short, this stout is simply amazing.

As others have indicated, it's an opaque coffee stout with a very dark, foamy head and amazing dark chocolate, vanilla, and coffee aroma. I was quite impressed then and there, but was even more so upon a taste.

I have to note that if you dislike coffee you will pretty much not like this stout. If you do enjoy coffee (good coffee) then you have to try Peche Mortel.

The first taste that hits you is definitely a strong coffee flavor. In fact, it's so rich a flavor you can almost imagine you're chomping down on an espresso bean. You get a very prominent bitter bite from the free trade coffee (which I particularly enjoyed very much) and then things start to mellow out. Slowly other flavors creep in... more of that dark chocolate flavor becomes apparent after a few seconds, and then hints of vanilla mixed with a mild sweetness almost of cane sugar creep in.

There was much interest at the bar over the bottle's artwork (I believe it's a rendering of "Eve" with the serpent, though one patron was adamant it was Medusa). Upon returning the empty bottle, it made its way up and down the bar for a sniff.

I highly recommend this beer, and suggest you enjoy it in good company. This is one to kick back and relax with, taking in the full experience that this coffee stout has to offer.

A good brew to quench your thirst after mowing the lawn this is most definitely NOT. ;-)

Serving type: bottle

04-20-2005 15:11:47 | More by techcommdood

kmo1030

Massachusetts

4.88/5  rDev +10.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

black with a huge sticky brown head that sticks around for the long haul. awesome rich coffee ice creamlike aroma. lots of fresh coffee and dark creamy chocolate. a little bit of alcohol and some mild carmel like malty notes. tastes like a shot of expresso only better. some dark chocolate and milk chocolate sweetens things up and balances the bitterness some. creamy smooth mouthfeel. drinks like an expresso dream. an incredible expresso stout. believe the hype.

-a big thanks to nick at bauer for grabbing this one from the back for me.

Serving type: bottle

04-15-2005 00:37:06 | More by kmo1030

Goldorak

Quebec (Canada)

4.88/5  rDev +10.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

Sampled a bottle of aged Péché Mortel bottled in September 2003. This isn't the batch sent down to the States via Shelton bros.

Appearance: Again, lights-out black, with a thick light brown head, maybe not as clingy and rich as the freshly tapped version.

Smell: Almost no difference here, roasted, kahlua and milk...

Taste: Coffee bean goodness, and as creamy a Beer as I've ever tasted. The alcohol finish is just a little more present in this version, but still doesn't feel close to 9%, more 3-4%.
Nice roasted, almost burnt bitter finish.

Serving type: bottle

03-05-2005 14:00:57 | More by Goldorak

3Vandoo

Quebec (Canada)

4.78/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Now, if my morning coffee could be like this, it would be heaven!

Appearance is the nice usual dark color of the Imperial stout, a nice brownish head that never dissapeared from my golass. The smell was of caramel and mainly coffee. The mouthfill was exceptionally sweet and tasty to my palate. The taste was of sweet caramel followed by a huge touch of coffee, reminded me of expresso. A very drinkable beer, but dont abuse from it. Hide very well its high alcohol content. A superb beer from DDC

___

Bottled version: Aged 18 months. (my new review is based on the bottle)

It is a more darker beer than the one on taps, when poored in the glass a dark liquid came out like a dark oil change. It was quick, quite like melasse. Her head was quite magnificient.
The difference is in taste and smell, the bottled version smells more of alcohol and taste a bit more alcoholic compard to the one on taps.
Also on taps the coffee flavours are more present compared to the one in bottle.

Serving type: on-tap

09-12-2004 07:50:18 | More by 3Vandoo