La Divine Comédie
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!

La Divine ComédieLa Divine Comédie
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From:
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
 
Quebec, Canada
Style:
Witbier
ABV:
5.4%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.69 | pDev: 7.32%
Reviews:
13
Ratings:
61
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 12, 2018
Added:
Jun 21, 2014
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  13
Collaboration with Le Trou du Diable
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Ratings by Shroud0fdoom:
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Rated by Shroud0fdoom from Maryland

4.25/5  rDev +15.2%

Sep 05, 2014
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.58 by Jibs from Canada (QC)

Aug 12, 2018
 
Rated: 3.69 by Samact from Vermont

Dec 30, 2017
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Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)

3.23/5  rDev -12.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Rare beer from Dieu du Ciel that does not work for me. Pours a straw/yellow with minimal white head, bubbly. Floral aroma with exotic fruit. Taste is quite bitter with again a floral/herbal feel that never really smooths out. Bit of a metallic after taste. Perhaps this is just past prime....
Oct 29, 2017
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Rated by Abbott from Canada (QC)

4.03/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hoppy! Surprisingly so. Fruity start (very short) followed by intense hop. Pretty nice - Trou du diable version (600 ml).
Oct 30, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by mattycasey from Massachusetts

Oct 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by Hayley_86 from Netherlands

Oct 12, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by hunterjames from Canada (ON)

Sep 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by mtomlins from Canada (ON)

Sep 13, 2016
 
Rated: 3.58 by Beervana from Canada (BC)

Sep 05, 2016
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Reviewed by Ui7y from Canada (ON)

3.63/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
L: transparent yellow. Very effervescent.
S: a mix of lemon rind and cut grass
T: hoppy. Tastes a little like white grape. Crisp and refreshing.
F: medium viscosity and a little dry. Effervescent.
O: a nice beer but not a great representation of a pils and wit mix. Still, a refreshing summer beer but not one of DDC's best offerings.
Aug 18, 2016
 
Rated: 3.58 by Jerk_Store from Canada (QC)

Aug 12, 2016
 
Rated: 3.57 by Mack from Canada (QC)

May 24, 2016
 
Rated: 4.29 by WeizenMike from Canada (ON)

Feb 20, 2016
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Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)

3.58/5  rDev -3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pilsners are brilliantly clear straw-gold; Witbiers are milky and murky. So what does a hybrid of the two look like? Well, neither. La Divine Comédie is a pale but brightly burnished gold with a medium hazy complexion. And while both styles have in common good head retention, this one quickly goes flat.

Listed as a "Wit Pils" it smells to me more like a Saison. There is subtle zest and spice notes as well as orchard fruit esters. Most flavour traces back to Belgian yeast. It certainly doesn't resemble a lager of any kind (let alone a pilsner), though I will concede that there is a pungent, leafy hoppiness.

Witbier, by definition, implies coriander and orange peel. A pilsner should have clean but prominent maltiness as well as floral Noble varietal hoppiness. The write-up on the label claims we can expect passionfruit and mango. None of these things matter because none are ultimately tasted.

On my palate, I detect a fairly ambiguous flavour profile that includes muddled fruitiness (mostly overripe orchard though trace tropical), no noticeable graininess, and a very New World hoppiness that has a dank, astringent bitterness and a somewhat vegetal finish (which turns out to be 75 IBU of Mosaic).

Just to be clear: it's not the violation of style guidelines I'm harping about, it's the fact there's no strong, clear-cut character. I couldn't care less what goes into a recipe or how beer judges would classify it, but styles arise because there's solid, distinguishable benchmarks that define them.

Dieu Du Ciel! and Le Trou Du Diable are both fantastic breweries that release more good beer than I can keep up with. This collaboration of theirs, however, failed expectations and failed as a concept. La Divine Comédie is mildly enjoyable but not interesting, flavorful or distinctive in the way I hoped it would be.
Dec 31, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by rugene from Canada (QC)

Nov 08, 2015
 
Rated: 4.06 by Supergenou from Canada (QC)

Oct 09, 2015
 
Rated: 3.66 by ZiggyPop from Canada (AB)

Oct 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.67 by Rutager from Canada (BC)

Sep 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Lare453 from Florida

Sep 08, 2015
La Divine Comédie from Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 61 ratings