Delirium Nocturnum

Bottle. Pours a hazy brown with a creamy tan head. Sugar and malt are key in the aroma and flavor. Also fruit, vanilla, and chocolate. Medium body and a bit too much carbonation. A little syrupy on the palate and finishes sweet. Pretty enjoyable despite being a little too sweet and bubbly.

(750ml corked and caged bottle) Pours a cloudy dark brown, nice light tan head, good bubbles and lacing. Nose is plastic, brown sugar, and dark Belgian candi sugar. Taste is sweet malts, has a coffee finish, nicely carbonated and good weight to the body. Also getting some artificial sweetener tastes towards the end, but overall I really enjoyed this.

750 ml. 2008 bottle. Lots of malts and sugar in this beer. Far less of everything else. Dark brown body with a nice fizzy tan head. The aroma is sweet with caramel, molasses and brown sugar. Hints of plum and overripe fruit and the slightest hint of mustiness. The flavor is heavily sweet with very little bitterness. It finishes moderately sweet and lightly bitter. Medium body, watery texture and prickly carbonation. It seems some Belgian strong ales keep presenting different taste profiles with every sip. This is not one of them perhaps because of the sweetness — a sweetness, however, that is not cloying. Overall, less complex than better strong ales, but enoyable nonetheless.

The pour was brown and amber, slightly cloudy but effervescence streamed up through the muck. The head was light tan, creamy and had some tiny flecks of brown on top of it after I dumped the floaties on top. Looked nice. The aroma was light yeast, plenty of malts, caramel and some dark cherry and light spice. The flavor is dominated by spice and yeast with some dark fruits coming out as it opened up. The mouthfeel was thin to medium in body and I thought the alcohol heat was very well masked. Considering it’s dark appearance and 9% ABV I thought this one might be a bit of a chore but I found it to be really approachable.

Ceramic bottle, 750 ml. Pours dark mahogany, with initial tan bubbly head, which dissipates quickly, with residual lacing. Sweet fruit aroma, with esters prominent, too prominent. Dark fruit, cherries and more esters on the palate, with an alcohol tail. Medium bodied mouthfeel, with moderate carbonation. Disappointing overall.

April/May 2008: Delirium Nocturnum is dry and fruity with some light caramel and alcohol. However, the beer is not hot and does not burn. It has a medium-light body, a hazy amber brown color, and a big, bubbly tan-colored head. This beer is pretty good, but too light and bubbly for my taste...

1 pint 9.4 fl. oz. ceramic bottle (Alc 8.5% Vol.) shared by Tmoney99. Thanks Tom! Rating #911 for this beer.

750 ml bottle shared by Cruiser at dmacs UFC-100 gathering. Pours a deep woody amber with a big spritzy head which fades down. Aroma is very fruity- way too estery- going from apple, to slight banana- and going big with the purple fruitiness- fake grape- candy like- grape soda and big league chew- spicy and bubblegum phenols. Flavor is a sharp sweet dark candy sugar, brown sugar thinning warmness, more grape acetate esters, plums and raisin as well- with a spritzy belgian yeastiness- peppery and sharp with an earthy leather finish and more stupid grape. Meh.

Pours clear mahogany with with a 2 finger creamy tan head that lasts forever and leaves some decent lacing. Aroma is caramel, apple pie, toasted grain, crusty white bread, a little dark fruit, earth and some planty hops. Flavor is caramel, toffee, dusty grain, toasted grain, sweet malt, toffee, a little apple, some earthiness and dark fruit. Toward the finish the alcohol show up a little more than I would have liked and there is a little earthy bitterness that is pretty interesting. Palate is medium bodied with a slightly slick entry that quickly dries out and leaves you with a fairly dry finish. Pretty good overall, on a smaller sample I may have rated it around a 4.0 but given some time to dissect it I grew somewhat tired of it.