Delirium Noël

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Appearance rating gets one full point for the incredible label art and nice painted bottle. Beer pours amber/ruby red with a big off white head that mostly dissipates. Aroma is strongly candy sugar with some yeast and a dash of spice. Flavor is very nice with dried fruit on the front end, some wonderful yeast notes and a nice dry, spicy lingering finish. Very nice holiday beer. I think I am going to go back and pick up another one for my cellar.

Finally a great brew from Delirium. My formal date loves the pink elephants of the other two, and the bottle for this one falls somewhere between adorable and hilarious. As for the beer....strong fruity citrus malt flavor, excellent balance, and I agree that the color falls between Tremens and Nocturnum, although the beer is much better than both. My only complaint is the overwhelming sweetness of the beer which begins to bear, Excellent coverage of the huge abv... and overall a great reason to look forward to December.

Elephants on a white bottle, now someone was definetely doing some drugs to come up with that. Yet another belgian that i enjoyed at obrien's, courtesy of dasilky1. An average brown color, descent arrangement of flavors accented with a breeze of yeast. just another belgian as far as im concerned.

UPDATED: JAN 12, 2005 2003 (I presume) bottle. Awesome ruby-amber red color, big off-white, slight yellow head. Good lacing. Maybe the finest bubbles arising from the bottom that I have seen. Smells like a strawberry twizzler, medium sweet, slightly plasticy, some cherry-yeast aroma, light clove and light, rounded hops??? Well anyways, it tastes amazing. Everyone else says Sweet, sweet and more sweet. Hmmm, it’s sweet, but I usually hate extra sweet beers, but I’m likin this, really much so. Spices, but the good kind, cinnamon, allspice. Good yeast flavors, nice finish and aftertaste includes some hops. It’s like an American-belgian!! I love it but I’m ashamed that I love it!!! Damn I’m so domestic!!!! (ps. I cant find the alcohol in this!!)

Translucent dark brown/ruby color with very light head, lots of carbonation, and no lacing. The aroma is very rich with lots of dark malts and fruits; light calamata olives, fig, brown sugar & molasses. The alcohol presence is noted in both the nose and that taste, but is still very smooth upon drinking. The flavor is very rounded with a spicy creamy malt base topped by a blend of herbs/alcohol and finishes with the light hop bite. Belgian Strong Ales make the best christmas beers, especially when they're bottle conditioned belgian beers!

Aw what a cute bottle! Santa Claus and hie 3 pink elephants are guiding his reindeer to deliver Begian Strong Ales to all of the Ratebeer Memebers for Christmas! The cork on my bottle came out with a resounding "POP"! The head was initially very large, but diminished quickly. It was made up of finely sized off white bubbles that left behind very little lacing and a hazy light brown colored uncarbonated body. Its aroma was a mixture of fruit malt and alcohol. The mouthfeel it initially bubbly then turns into a burning high alcohol feeling followed by a lasting tingly sensation. Definately a "BIG" beer with a lot of character to it that just wille not be ignored! The flavor is spicey with the high alcohol content covering up most of the flavors. Those that I noted were clove malt grape spices and caramel. After just half a glass I could feel the buzz from this "Big" beer.

Pours a somewhat cloudy coppery color with a thin layer of tan foam.Lotsa’ lacing on this glass.Nose is a smashing complex blend of overipe bananas,and more tropical fruit you might find in a Middle Eastern market ,aromatic spices and that lovely Belgian yeast.Taste is just as complex.I tossed my cork out and do not have the year on this but I have had a 2002 and it was a little tastier,not by much.This is like some funked out dessert in a Turkish restaurant.Lovely spices and dark fruit and those bananas.

You can taste the high alcohol content in your first sip. Very fruity taste, highly carbonated.