Delirium Noël

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

Bottle. Pours a hazy amber body with a tan yellow head. Spicy yeast y notes, spices of cinnamon, allspice, and some light appleish tones. Lots of fruity esters coriander, plum, some light minerals. A bit sweet overall with a moderate warming. Nice Xmas ale.

Bottle. 25.4 oz. Pours maroonish cloudy brown, with a soft, pillowy, snowy off-white head. Aroma of caramel, roasted almond, birch wood, vanilla, toasted malts and honey. Medium bodied. Nice, tight mouthfeel with a very subtle, lovely warming. Finishes slow and wonderfully. Outstanding Christmas brew from Huyghe. Very cool bottle as well. Highly recommended for the holidays.

Marginal at best. Pours a golden orange with thin off-white head. Apple, plum, fruity esters, holiday spice, some sourness, and sweet malt. Spritzy mouthfeel. Standard belgian ale, a little boring.

2007 Vintage. Cork "pop" was somewhat subdued but the beer was still well carbonated. Very dark thick amber with a fair soft head. Aroma of candy sugar, caramel and alcohol with some nice spice notes that register later. Tastes just like the aroma. Sweet, light syrup, caramel and soft spice. Just a bit of alcohol burn in the finish.

bottle poured an amber in color with a thin white head and light carbonation pooling at the center. aroma of sweet dark fruit, brown sugar, light yeasty funk, plumb, and some spicing. mouth feel is medium with a heavy coating. flavor comes on with a nice malt, heavy sweetness, molasses, dark fruit, yeast, and spicing. has some alcohol heat and the spicing is high.

In short: An extra sweet and slightly spicy Belgian dark ale. Cloying but drinkable.
How: Bottle 330ml. Winter 2008/2009 batch. Consumed when about 1 year of age (2 years before expiration date)
The look: Cloudy amber body topped by a very small beige head
In long: Nose of some kind of spicy candy/desert. Taste is very sweet with a lot of candy sugar and only a little bit of caramel and molasses. Next to the overwhelming sweetness are raisins, cloves, yeast, hard candies, other spices, a little shot of Jack Daniels. The spiciness is the main attraction here, not intense but an interesting array of spices with no specific spice coming out strong except for cloves. Body is really full and heavy. A little alcohol warmth but feels less than 10%. A bit like their own Delirium Nocturnum with a lot of candy sugar added. I usually really don’t care for beer heavy on candy sugar but this one wasn’t bad. I give it an A. For Average

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

2005 corked and caged. Semi hazy, particulate suspended burnt orange. Nose is fantastic deep fruity, with no traces of alcohol. Flavors of light smoke, anise, oak, vanilla, and a plethera of other flavors. Truly a great brew.