Grande Noirceur
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.79
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The Grande Noirceur is an intensely black and dense beer with pronounced roasted flavours. The bitterness is very imposing but is balanced by a malty-caramel taste. The alcohol content is quite high, but its presence remains discrete in this beer.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
341ml bottle. Jet black colour with late awakening, small to average, thick, creamy, fairly lasting and lacing, tan head. Chocolately, dark malty aroma, notes of dark and milk chocolate, vanilla, a touch of rum and treacle, minimally ashy and smoky, roasty overtones gain upper hand while the beer’s warming up, some liquorice comes in. Taste is roasty and chocolately dark malty, caramel notes, hints of Chinese fortune cookie, treacle, vanilla, the roast comes along in slightly ashy, smoky and even tart-ish fashion, additional notes of liquorice; oily texture, soft and minimally sticky palate. Quite strong and forceful but not really heavy, superb balance of caramel and chocolate gravity and ashy, roasty repulsion. In my personal order of succession their ’Péché Mortel’ ranks behind.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2016
at 18:44
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
341 ml bottle. Pours black with moderate tan head. Aromas of oily black coffee, licorice, dry dark chocolate, and heavily roasted malts. Flavors of creamy black coffee, very dark dry chocolate, light vanilla, light chicory, and more roasted malts. Very nice balance; a little dry but also a little sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2016
at 19:06
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle: Pours black with a light brown head. Smoky, dark chocolate/fudge, vanilla cream aroma. Dark chocolate, cocoa, molasses, coffee roast, vanilla flavor. Chewy, creamy....with a big, ashy-bitter finish. Really smoothly done. I could enjoy one of these almost everyday....Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2016
at 15:57
6/10
Tried
on 28 Nov 2015
at 22:04
8/10
Tried
on 14 Jul 2015
at 08:26
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle at Black Sunday thanks to Paul. Pours black with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is roast, wood, dark fruit, caramel. Chunky mouthfeel with nice bitterness, with chocolate and caramel malt, nice light boze with roast getting more intese and lingering as the beer warms. The coffee gives it a nice balance throughout, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2015
at 02:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap @EurHop (Rome). Pours deep black with a medium creamy cappuccino foam. Aroma is roasted malts, dark chocolate, mocha, alcol. Flavour is impressive at first but a bit messy, some sweetness, then a bitter end, more chocolate than I expected, and alcol again. High body, low carbonation. Overall it’ a good beer, but not as great as I expected.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Dec 2014
at 03:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
C’est très riche et l’alcool est bien masqué par un bon goût de céréales grillées. Produit de grande qualité mais qui, à mon goût, est un peu trop amer (ça s’estompe à la longue)...
Tried
on 21 Dec 2014
at 14:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at BierCarb, Barcelona. Black color with small dark beige head. Aroma is roasted malty, coffee, light chocolate and hazelnuts. Taste is sweet and light bitter. Medium to light body, oily, soft carbonation. I liked it more the first time I tried it at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2012.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2014
at 09:17
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at GBD, this was about inning 12 of that ridiculous 18 inning Nationals/Giants game. Poured a dark, almost pitch black brown color with a tan head. Aroma was roasted malts, light burnt coffee. Flavor was dark chocolate, some anise, bitter roasted malts. Pretty solid, though perhaps a little more bitter than I hoped.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Oct 2014
at 21:26