Péché Mortel Dry
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!

 

 

On tap at Three Penny. Black with a big creamy khaki head. Smell is rich coffee and chocolate. Taste is chocolate and sweet coffee up front. Booze in the middle. Finish has a bitter coffee flavor. Long creamy finish. Not dissimilar to regular Peche. Maybe just a bit more bitter and, as a result, a drier finish. Still absolutely delicious.

 

 

 

 

 

A 4 oz. taster at The Foundry in Northampton. Excellent, if in the flat, let's-not-hide-the-alcohol vein that I think is best served in smaller helpings. Dry is a good word for this.

 

Purchased a 5oz sample for $4.00. Served at 7deg C in a wine glass.

A- Pours tiny head that is gone in a minute or two. Very dark black colour

S- Not a lot here. Very much like the standard version

T- Pretty much the standard version on this one. Not a big different and I had them side by side on this test. Rating it a bit lower only because of the let down of thinking it was a variant but it reminds me of that Simpson's episode were Homer, Carl, Lenny and Barney went to the Duff brewery and the tour guide says "here's Duff, Duff light and our newest beer Duff dry" and it shows a main pipe feeding the three different Duff's LOL

M- Regular version here

O- Just a regular version someone in marketing suggested they add an ingredient and call it a variant.

Food Pairing

You can pair this this brew with anything you would pair the regular version with.

Enjoy

On nitro at bar volo. Smooth mouthfeel. Dark brown Very dry finish.nice coffee flavours. Worth a try..

12oz chalice glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver - is this merely a cheeky poke at the 'dry' macro brews of the 1990s, whose only claim to fame was an extra half point of ABV?

This beer appears another solid oily black 'colour', with one hefty finger of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves a few swaths of distant mountain range lace around the glass as things very slowly abate.

It smells relatively lightly of grainy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, an ethereal black orchard fruitiness, and weak earthy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, mildly tart dark fleshy fruit (dried plums, raisins and the like), a touch of spicy anise candies, and the same green vegetation hoppiness from the nose - with a subtly menacing sense of the boozy astringency that could be.

The bubbles are pretty understated in their typically plain Jane frothiness, the body a lesser middleweight, and still more or less smooth, but with a not so robust enthusiasm for further creamy ventures. It finishes well, dry - ya got me there, mes amis!

I get the concept at play here - make a generally sweet (for all the right reasons, IMHO) big stout less so, by drying it out via methods unknown to this reviewer at the current time. The result is still a damned fine brew, with a crazily well-integrated 20-proof alcohol factor. Molson et al, this one is for you, and all your historical brewing marketing bullshit right now.

 

Poured on tap at Churchkey DC into a snifter glass during Péché Mortel day.

Very thick and foamy head, but also with a real light tan appearance with a good almost rocky like quality of cling and lace. Body color is a dark walnut brown opaque and solid. Good very nice looking brew if the light head is a bit unexpected.

This is a real impressive aroma. Dryness seems to be the theme but there's actually also some toasty almost brown ale like quality along with many of the other great noses going on. Light coffee and toasted been, even a bit of oils with gigantic charing qualities of roasted grain.

Once again Peche lives up to it's expectations on the palate. This is actually crackling in mouthfeel shockingly, but also has a creamy texture that is hard to figure out how they balanced the two together. Excellent roasty notes of coffee and dark chocolate, more silky than powdery with even some mild creamy tones. Aftertaste is a great lingering espresso like roast coffee notes that hint towards chocolate and then a good airy powder hits on the swallow. Real lingering finish that lasts of roasted coffee with dark chocolate tones.

This is a real surprising variation the peche mortel, and it's absolutely fantastic and memorable.