Beer Review 3 – “Delirium Tremens” from Huyghe Family Brewery in Belgium.
Immediately visible is the oooooh-aaaahhhh very fancy label and packaging on this little Belgian beer. I’m not sure if it’s painted on or if it’s some kind of sticky adheasive label on the glass bottle, but the effect is that it looks like a ceramic / pottery bottle. Add to that some blue silver foil on the neck, a blue label with pink elephants, strutting crocodiles and dancing dragons, and a crazy font for the name “Delirium Tremens” and you’ve got a striking package that is pleasing to the eye.
Opening the beer is also pleasant on the nose. Quite a strong beer smell, not overpowering, but the promise of something tasty to come.
A blonde beer, this “Delirium Tremens” beer from Belgium has quite a high alcohol content – 8.5%. Obviously this is to combat the dreaded DTs from which it gets its name….. ?!? Great taste, smooth, good head, clear beer. One or two or three would be fantastic, but I doubt with an alcohol content as high as this, and with the bitter aftertaste (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing I should point out) that I could consume too many of these in one sitting. A couple would be wonderful.
Turning to the internet once again – http://www.delirium.be - I find that Delirium Tremens Belgian Beer has been given a string of awards and accolades. It has been nominated for “best beer in the world” on several occasions, and received a Gold Medal in the 1998 World Beer Championship in Chicago. The website also has an amusing little flash mouse pointer plugin thingy that leaves a trail of pink elephants behind your mouse pointer.
Delirium Tremens is Latin for “trembling madness”. This is perhaps more commonly known as ”the DTs”. It means to be suffering from a violent sickness induced by withdrawal after alcohol abuse.
Not wishing to trivialise this rather nasty affliction, I presume the idea is to keep a few of these beers under your belt and thus you won’t suffer too much…?
All in all, a great tasting beer. It is a worthy 9 out of 10 on the Forty Beers Cheers O Meter.
Thanks, and looking forward to the next exciting episode….”Beer Review 4″.
Matthew
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Tags: Beer Review, Belgian Beer, Blonde
