Delirium Nocturnum

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Melle, Belgium

75 cL bottle, goblet, 50 degrees. Large, fizzy, tan head is quickly diminishing. Brown body has burgandy edges and tiny, dense particles. Nutty, molasses malt; grassy, perfume hops; cobweb yeast; bubble gum, red grapes, plum, pear, white wine, licorice, alcohol and solvent. Sounds pretty good on paper (minus the solvent part) but it really doesn't come together well at all. It's not that the flavors clash or anything; it's just that the aroma kind of burns my nose. Moderately sweet flavor; moderately sweet, lightly bitter, heavily acidic finish. The taste really lacks many of the flavors I was expecting to find. Medium-heavy body, somewhat creamy texture, fizzy carbonation. The bottom line is: checking the aroma of a beer should not cause pain.

Dark ruby brown clear with decent light tan head. For me this beer was downhill from here. Unlike the Tremens, the aroma was quite faint, some unripened grapes, alka-seltzer, caramel and coffee. Thin bodied with a sour almost gueuzey start, a sweeter spicier middle and faint sour dry finish. It’s definitely different to, but I prefer the tremens.

poured a nce brown color with a frothy tan head with minimal retention. Aroma was yeasty and sweet, very mild too. Inital flavor was sweet with mild bread notes and finished with a very mild hop dryness

Had at Markt in New York with equally nondescript mussels and frites. Average looking strong Belgian brown. Nose is in some sense like barleywine — bubble gum sweet with strange overtones. Taste is sweet, cloying, hot with alcohol. Fine with oversalted fries, but nothing i would order again. I found the alcohol and the phenols overwhelmed any anticipated spice.

A clear brown colored beer, with a thick beige head. The aroma of dark sweet fruits, a little coffee candy and caramel malt. The taste of sweet alcohol fruits, liquorice root. It is spicey, some pepper. The aftertaste is a little bitter with sweets.

Light brown color with a large fluffy tan head. Malty aroma with dark fruits and molasses. Tastes sweet with flavors of raisins, malt and molasses. Has some hop bitterness at the end to counter the sweetness.

On tap. Dark ruby brown, thin off-white head. Aroma is malty, fruity, and musty. Flavor is fruity, malty, and sour.

Can’t believe that I have not rated this one yet. Mohagany brew with only a fine ring of foam. Sweet malty aromas with a that famous belgian yeast strain that produce a lovely fruity spicey aroma. This tasted kind of off. Very carbonated and copper tasting.