Aphrodisiaque
(has 2 batches)
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.86
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Black ale with aromas and flavours of vanilla, dark chocolate, bourbon and roasted malt. The vanilla and cocoa marry nicely, without out-competing each other, to produce a surprisingly well balanced beer. This beer is mildly hoppy, but the cocoa introduces a touch of bitterness. Its colour may be intimidating, but it is a very smooth beer within reach of most beer drinkers. This highly appreciated dessert beer is brewed with organic fair-trade cocoa and first rate vanilla beans.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from saveur-biere.com, bottled 03/13. Black body with some red reflections and a small, brown, creamy head, that dissipates completely. Sweet aroma of dark chocolate, vanilla, ripe banana, roasted malt. Taste with the same aromas, sweet, a lot of dark chocolate, vanilla, roast and toast from the background. Medium mouthfeel, with a satisfying, thick, oily texture, lively carbonation and a bitter chocolate and roasty finish. You don’t need a dessert, this is the dessert! At the same time it isn’t too sweetened, very well balanced and smooth. A skillful brew!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2013
at 16:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Belmont Station, Portland. Colour is black with small head. Aromas and flavours: Coffee, chocolate and roasted malts. Amazing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2013
at 00:23
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Draft at GBD as Dieu du Ciel Aphrodite. This beer poured a pitch, almost oil black color with a medium sized tan head. Aroma was full of coffee, bitter dark chocolate notes, roasted malts, dried fruits (figs). Flavor was creamy lactose, dark, roasted malts. Some light bitterness comes through from the roasted character as well as from the earthy hops. Pretty darn drinkable and quite a robust flavor that shows you don’t need some kind of alcohol bomb to produce a good stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Dec 2013
at 10:31
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Keg at Brewdog Birmingham; mostly I have to agree with Dan this is a glorious stout, dark brown pour with bubbly tan head, rich vanilla and roasted malt aroma, taste both had roasted malts and vanilla really smooth tasting, slight hint of coffee some hop bitterness impressive beer, hope to meet again.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2013
at 07:45
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
341ml bottle form Brewdog online shop, shared with jeevan. Jet black pour, dark brown head. Aromas of coffee, bourbon, vanilla, chocolate. Like a sweeter stout, or a much bigger beer than this. Crammed a lot in there for 6.5%, aroma-wise. And taste-wise! Full mouthfeel, goes from sweet chocolate to roasted bitter, back to vanilla and then to spirit-warmth. Lovely beer, big but very drinkable. Wish I’d got a couple more now...
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2013
at 11:43
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 341mL bottle. Pours black with minimal tan head. Strong roasted coffee aroma with mildly light vanilla overtones. Flavour starts slightly sweet with some vanilla and chocolate and moves to a bitter roasted coffee flavour. Full mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2013
at 00:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home , from biererevolution Pours ectra dark darkbrown , small grey foam Smell has vanilla and some coffee Rather high carbo . Surprisimgly much chocolate in the taste , especialy after the absence in the smell The amount of taste versus the abv is just insane . Yet i like heavier stuff . Some bitterness , too . Mostly chocolate in the taste .
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2013
at 19:23
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Ruby-black with a dark tan head. Roasty chocolate, coffee aroma. Creamy, vanilla-coffee flavor. Licorice, ash. Excellent.....top notch.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2013
at 17:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Dieu du Ciel! Aphrodisiaque (by Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
8/X/13 - 33cl bottle from Abbaye des Saveurs (Lille) @ home - BB: n/a, bottled: III/2012 (2013-935) Thanks to Franck for the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, creamy beige to almost brown head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: vanilla, caramel, mocha, lots of chocolate, bit sweet. MF: good carbon, medium body. Taste: dark burnt caramel, mocha, vanilla, coffee, dark chocolate. Aftertaste: vanilla, chocolate, pretty bitter, caramel, some coffee, little sweet, hoppy touch.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
8/X/13 - 33cl bottle from Abbaye des Saveurs (Lille) @ home - BB: n/a, bottled: III/2012 (2013-935) Thanks to Franck for the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, creamy beige to almost brown head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: vanilla, caramel, mocha, lots of chocolate, bit sweet. MF: good carbon, medium body. Taste: dark burnt caramel, mocha, vanilla, coffee, dark chocolate. Aftertaste: vanilla, chocolate, pretty bitter, caramel, some coffee, little sweet, hoppy touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2013
at 11:11
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Wow, this is excellent! Pours a thick black with a tan head. Nose is toasted malt, vanilla, cocoa. Taste is more of these flavours, solid bitterness from the roasted malt and dark chocolate. Perfectly balanced.
Tried
on 03 Oct 2013
at 03:51