Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! Blanche Neige

Blanche Neige

 

Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Winter
Score
7.06
ABV: 8.3% IBU: - Ticks: 29
Brewed only once a year to keep you warm during the cold winter months, the Blanche Neige (« Snow white ») isn’t your typical wheat beer. Firstly, the level of alochol is surprising and is perceived rapidly both in the bouquet and in the mouth. The spices come through immediately, giving very little room for the usual wheat beer aromas (coriander and curaçao). Cinnamon and clove dominate and the flavours are generously well-rounded thanks no doubt to residual sugars. It is therefore a very sweet beer that is best appreciated slowly.
 

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7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Très surprenant l’équilibre atteint avec les épices; souvent, ça goûte trop ou pas assez. Bonne, riche, de qualité, rien à redire...

Tried on 03 Apr 2014 at 15:48


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Single from the local IGA store. Pours a hazy golden colour with a frothy white head, good retention and sticky-dirty lace. Smells like a beautiful witbier with the fresh coriander and wheat notes. The taste is spicy as well with some light orangy malts and mild grassy hops. A nice brew, but do not taste as much the advertised cloves and cinnamon.

Tried on 30 Mar 2014 at 16:17


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz. bottle, with a date of Jan 2014. Nice aroma of coriander, floral hops and rosemary.

Flavor is very herbal, rosemary, parsley, and coriander is the lasting lingering flavor. Lots of pale malts with the herbs giving the bitterness. ABV is hidden nicely. Overall, a solid Belgain Strong.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Mar 2014 at 13:36


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cloudy straw orange. Nose is coriander and a little honey and spice. Pretty herbal. Taste has a lot of orange, pretty yeasty, herbs and spices. Very nice. 3.9

Tried on 29 Mar 2014 at 13:29


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet apricot and bubblegum aromas. Slick with bubblegum and yeast upfront turning dry in the lasting marshmallow finish.

Tried on 23 Feb 2014 at 15:12


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle received in trade. Thank you pushkinwow! Pours deep golden with a rather small offwhite head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace in the glass. Smell is sweet, phenolic, estery and very spicy with wheat crackers, banana bread, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, hay, pepper corns and hints of alcohol and lemon zest. Taste is slightly bitter, phenolic and very spicy with wheat crackers, bergamot, banana bread, alcohol, nutmeg, pepper corns, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, hay an lemon zest. Mouthfeel is round, spicy astringent and medi bodied. Finish is bitter and spicy with banana bread, white bread, hay, spices, lemon zest and hints of wood. Way to spicy to suit me. First Dieu du Ciel beer I wasn’t impressed by. Serving it with sushi saved it a little.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2014 at 14:46


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft - Clove and cinnamon dominate. Clear gold with a thin head. Clove and spices with a bitter bite. A bit over the top on spices but if you like clove and cinnamon you are going to enjoy this. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried from Draft on 16 Mar 2013 at 20:00


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bouteille 341ml. Couleur or limpide, mousse blanche disparaissant rapidement en laissant un anneau et un voile léger. Arôme de clou de girofle intense, canelle. Goût de clou de girofle tout aussi intense, un peu sucré, amertume en fin de bouche. Carbonation moyenne, corps moyen.

Tried from Can on 14 Jan 2013 at 06:48


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12oz bottle I received via trade with pushkinwow. Thanks! Pours a hazy, pulpy orange with some soft, lacing white head. Aroma is excellent, lemon grass, cinnamon, all spice, peach, wheat, yeast, ripe fruit. Favor is sweet, fruity, peach, grass, pineapple candies, white pepper, orange zest. Full, sweet finish. Sort of reminds me of a cross between a hef and a tripel. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2012 at 17:08


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Aroma: Cinnamon and clove with tiny bit of hops. Appearance: Rather blond than white, slightly hazy. Creamy head, long lasting, sticking well to glass with a fair lacing. Taste: Attack is explosively spicy with a strong banana accent. Alcohol is giving a round and warm feel. Refreshing also. Spices are very strong and could be more subtle. They are masking all other flavors. Typical winter wittbeer but very spicy.

Tried on 20 Dec 2012 at 16:53