Blanche Neige
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!

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From:
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
 
Quebec, Canada
Style:
Witbier
ABV:
8%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.76 | pDev: 12.23%
Reviews:
35
Ratings:
65
Status:
Active
Rated:
Apr 22, 2021
Added:
Mar 07, 2004
Wants:
  8
Gots:
  7
Witbier brewed with cinnamon & cloves.
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Ratings by chickenm:
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Rated by chickenm from Canada (BC)

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%

Aug 11, 2012
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Reviewed by rugene from Canada (QC)

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Golden wheat beer with strong flavors of cinnamon and cloves. If you enjoy those spices, it is worth a try. I would buy again, but not on a regular basis. Good winter beer!
Apr 22, 2021
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Reviewed by Drinker-Diary from Canada (QC)

4.5/5  rDev +19.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
★★★★½
Une bière bien parfumée.
En ce midi virtuel de l'Inox, je décide de prendre cette délicieuse bière pour accompagner mon gnocchi aux champignons. Un mélange judicieux qui rend mon repas du midi exceptionnel. Encore une fois, la microbrasserie Dieu du ciel nous impressionne par la diversité de leurs produits. Bravo!
Apr 05, 2020
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Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)

4.03/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Serving: Bottle
Bottled: Nov-5 -2019 (Consumed Jan-4-2020)


Pours hazy orange with a short-lived two fingers of head. Settles to a ring, no lacing. Aroma features bright orange peel, clove, cardamom forward nose. Cardamom (assuming I'm right about the spice, otherwise it comes from something else) to the point I'm hungry for ham! It tastes wheaty but with a rich warming alcohol, sweet dough, clove, wheat tartness. It is spicier tasting and fruitier smelling. Fairly easy drinking for the size with moderate carbonation and well hidden alcohol. A nice big "imperial" wit. Exactly as advertised (though they are classy enough to not throw around imperial like I just did).
An enjoyable, textbook wit character to start with and then shot full of steroids. It is not something I'd drink everyday, but I have to say the overall profile is uniformly amplified enough that it reminded my jaded palate of what drew me to wheat beers so strongly when I first started getting into beer.

3.5...4.25...4...4...4
Jan 06, 2020
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

3.86/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
these guys are definitely one of my favorite breweries, and i always get stoked when i find beers from them i have not had before. lucky enough to source this one on tap, its an imperial wit type with spices and a little more assertive wheat and yeast profile than is customary in the style, a really well made and even daring beer, nicely pulled off. lightly hazy from the tap, the bubbly white head fading quickly, and a cool nose of strong wit type yeast esters and cloves, fresh ground. i immediately get white and black pepper with the clove in the taste, a little mulling spice as well, and a warming rather than refreshing complexion overall, not what i am used to at all in the style, but a really cool twist here. the yeast is sturdy too on top of all the wheat malt, esters of pear and orange, with a little gummy bear candy sort of thing as well, a white sugar sweetness, bread crusts, and clover honey. lots going on here, but its never boozy as strong as it is, and there is nice balance here in its boldness. i wish for a little more effervescence in the feel to really make it sing, but the flavors cultivated here are excellent, and this stands out as distinct in this style to me. another inventive and well executed beer by these guys! a wit for the autumn to me...
Sep 15, 2018
 
Rated: 2.75 by -chii- from Canada (QC)

May 24, 2016
 
Rated: 4.08 by mademers from Canada (QC)

Mar 03, 2016
 
Rated: 3.86 by Fabianno from Brazil

Dec 22, 2015
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Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia

3.59/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
Pours amber with a fading head.
Nose shows cinnamon, cloves, candied orange, soft wheat. Very strong spices.
Loads more spices as flavours, close to overpowering. Some soft malt in there.
Feb 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.54 by benzalman from California

Feb 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by J-M from Canada (QC)

Nov 30, 2014
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Reviewed by Mit from Canada (ON)

3.75/5  rDev -0.3%
Pours a cloudy golden colour with a white head that dissipates quickly

Smells of clove.....bready odours......orange.....

Strong....bitterness.....spiciness.....yeast flavours. Not getting the orangey flavours on the tongue. Slight alcohol burn near the end of the mouthful.

Mouthfeel is thicker but It is a higher abv.

Overall a delicious beer. I would buy this again in a heartbeat.
Nov 17, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Sarmento from Brazil

Nov 13, 2014
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Rated by Franck from Canada (QC)

3.5/5  rDev -6.9%
Smell of yeasts and spices.
In mouth, cloves take a lot of place but cinnamon brings a sweet taste.
I'm impressed
Oct 08, 2014
 
Rated: 3.92 by cirobordieri from Brazil

Sep 01, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by slowfade from Canada (QC)

Aug 13, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by Socialiste from Canada (QC)

Jun 28, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Rutager from Canada (BC)

Jun 22, 2014
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Reviewed by peensteen from Canada (ON)

3.97/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
hazed bright orange colour, ring of white head with not much lace here. Nose is spicy, lots of clove, orange and lightly tart yeast, fruity. Taste is spicy and yeasty cinnamon and cloves, what I would describe as winterspice, a bit yeasty, everything in good balance, quite tasty. Medium carbonation, medium body. Nice stuff here, not my favorite style but this one I like, ABV well hidden, quite drinkable.
May 23, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Cycle69 from Canada (ON)

Mar 23, 2014
Blanche Neige from Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 65 ratings