Brouwerij Huyghe Delirium Red

Delirium Red

 

Brouwerij Huyghe in Melle, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Fruit Beer Regular
Score
6.21
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 247
Belgian ale with cherry and elderberry.
Deep dark red colour (EBC 40), with a light pink, compact and lacing head.
Soft fruity aroma, with hints of almond and mildly sour cherries. Sweet and fruity, with a nice balance between sweet and sour. An excellent dessert beer.
 

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6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Pours ruby-tinged mahogany into a trappist glass. Red head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Cherry aromas. Thick with sweet cherry cough drop front to back. Lasting amaretto and syrup finish. Dessert indeed.
Tried on 10 Aug 2026 at 23:00

7.9/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Pint can. Tart cherry aroma with notes of elderberry, almond, clove and spicy Belgian yeast. Pours dark red with a finger of off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with elderberry, almond and clove flavors. Finishes smooth and sticky with tart cherry and spicy Belgian yeast flavors. Quite nice.
Tried from Can from Newton Wine and Spirits on 27 Jun 2026 at 23:15

6.8/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 3 Overall 7
Big half liter pounder can from chalet for 3$. Pour is very nice, brown maroon with red tinge and a big foamy light pink head that never fades. Nose is fun and appetizing mild sour cherry. Looking forward to this session. First taste is mildly tart cherry. Then there is a little bit of that cherry cough medicine effect. Even so, this is pretty good. I've tasted nocturnum, delirium and noel and this stuff is much better than all 3 of those. Except for that mild cherry cough drop taste, this stuff really hides its alky content very well. In the middle, I didn't notice it, because of the decent taste, aroma and look; but there really isn't much carbonation in here, tho its enough for support of the overall friendliness of the brew. Quite happy with this purchase and tasting stint. Near the end, that head is still there! Even after 20 mins of sipping. Very rare for a beer these days. Pretty good overall experience!
Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 17 May 2026 at 17:06

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: dark red/maroon color with a finger's worth of pink foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: sweet and tart cherries with a light toasted almond sniff in there and a sweet leathery tone underneath that
Flavor: encompasses a great blend between sweet and tart qualities and adds in a delicate vanilla underneath; finishes cherry sweet and tart and dry
Texture: light to medium bodied; leaning towards being a sipper; some smoothness but in a dry sort of way; good carb level
Overall: a nicely done Belgian fruit beer I would welcome again.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2026 at 12:09

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
0.5l can. Pours deep red color with half a finger of lightly pink head, nice lacing. Cherry aroma. Cherry camdy, cherry juice, light tartness, sweet. Alcohol od super well hiden. Fruity. Medium body, medium-high carbonation.
Tried from Can on 07 Apr 2026 at 19:44

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Tried from Draft on 03 Apr 2026 at 14:46

6.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 20 Feb 2026 at 16:27

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4
0,33 l bottle. Pours deep ruby red with medium, big, off light pinky head. Head head reasonable retention and some lacing. Aroma of sour cherries, a bit of malt, sweetish. Once it warms up a bit there is also elderberry. Body is heavy, sticky sweet and mild bitter. Way to sweet for me. Finish starts sweet and follows with unpleasant bitterness. As it warms up, there is also plenty of elderberry in aftertaste. Not best effort.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2025 at 13:17

6.5/10
Tried from Bottle on 21 Dec 2025 at 16:35

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Dark ruby red with large pink head. Cherry, elderberry, malt, and straw aroma. Moderately sweet cherry, elderberry, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. Decent - nice light sweetness.
Tried from Can on 25 Oct 2025 at 00:45