Delirium Noël

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Smells of heavy malts, that particular yeast and %. Not a crazy head pour, but really great lacing, it’s fairly dark but you can just see through it, not too heavy on particulates. It’s quite sweet and heavy on the flavour, the yeast and the % definately come through in the end, not getting a lot of spices or anything. It’s nice and bubbly just like the other deliriums and leaves a great sweet yeast taste.

Poured almost purple with a quick fading head smelled sweet and fruitty but tasted better than most belgians cause of a tartrness it had my favorite delirium beer

Pours a dark amber/ruby with a crazy amount of particulate. Intense aroma of fruits, sugar and malts. Fruity/sweet taste up front to a light hop finish., Hop finish. Booze is well muted. Damn good

Poured a hazy brown with a small head. Aroma is spicy, toasty, and a little fruity. Flavor is has a lot of fruitiness, especially as it warms, with apple and fig being prominent. Has a bit of a toasty, brown sugar maltiness. Very yeasty, with spicy, almost peppery notes. A unique tasting festive beer.

750 mL bottle pours dark amber into a chalice with zero head, bit of lacing. Aroma of apple, fig, plumb, brown sugar, floral/grassiness, sweet malt, yeast. Starts with the brown sugar, malt pulls all the way, spice apples and plumb bloom, leading into a sweet, spicy, yeasty finish. Little bit of booze is noticeable and pleasant. Spiced apples really come out as it warms. More carbonation than I was expecting, bit over medium with a slick but fuzzy mouthfeel. Loads of sediment in there.

Brown body with a fluffy slightly tan head. Bready and slightly yeasty aroma. Flavors have a rather barnyard character with some doughy character. Lots of sweet dark fruits. Mouth feel is nicely carbonated with a continuous bubbly feel. Finishes out with a quiet and muted flavor that nicely complements the rest of the beer. Enjoyable and quite appropriate for the season.

2006 vintage. I enjoyed this at Delilah’s 12th annual Winter Beer Tasting in Chicago, IL. From what I remember, a wide variety of wild yeast, with spices, cinnamon and a touch of sweetness. Nicely done.

Bottle, Uddingston, 2009-12-24 AR: belgium yeast, scotish marmelad AP: fudge brown a bit cloudy, 1 cm high diminishing head F: melass/syrup, date (dried), flavor is well covering the the acohol level (10%)