Bottled 750ml (Vasa Sessions)
Golden colour, small white head. Oak dominates in the aroma, even perfumic. Medium-bodied. Fizzy carbo. Vanilla, Belgian yeast, alcohol, oak, bourbon. A bit too much barrel in this one.

Delirium Blond aged on bourbon barrels and bottled in 75 cl bottles, one of two such beers recently released by Huyghe (the other being the predictable dark one, so Delirium Nocturnum aged on the same barrels). Thick and frothy, egg-white, creamy, shred-lacing, stable head on a misty apricot blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of ripe banana, industrial honey, plaster, bubblegum, vanilla-like oak wood indeed, cloves, macaroons, white soap, coriander seed, wodka, withering iceberg lettuce. Sweet onset, strong banana ester mingled with ripe pear and cooked apple impressions, lively and minerally carbonation, fluffy and rounded mouthfeel with bubblegummy edge; soft white-bready malts, a tad soapy with a firm layer of residual honeyish sweetness on top. Vanilla-scenting oak wood returns retronasally along with sweet bourbon, but the tannic effects of the the wood remain too weak to counter the overall sweetness of this beer; perfumey phenolic and herbal-hoppy notes in the end, hinting at clove, basil and even some coconut, before a strong booziness interferes and puts a rather crude ending to it all, even creating an indeed bourbon- but also wodka-like alcohol burn in the end. Way too boozy and too sweet for me, but admittedly better than average Huyghe beers, which admittedly is not saying very much; not worth the price tag, in any case (and neither is the dark one, now that we are at it), but I do find it interesting that these traditional Belgian family breweries have increasingly been picking up elements from the global craft beer movement in recent years. This is certainly not the last example of a classic Belgian ale getting the barrel treatment...

Huge, dense, just off-white head over (cold)hazed golden beer with rings of lace. Vanilla a mile out, Bourbon obvious. Vanilla cream, crème Anglaise, and - surprise, surprise - alcohol. Vanilla, liquorice, vanilla sweets, artificial raspberry ester, white candi sugar, cocos. Alcoholburn, but thinning is both from alcohol and , I'm sure from chaptalization. Just better than average Huyghe. 'nuff said.

Magus, belgi pärm, alkone, linnaseline, alkone, pärmine, alkone, kas ma ütlesin et alkone?! Ok.

Soapy, rose water, tequila, sweet, caramel, shampoo, alcohol, sourish

75cl bottle @ Chez Sophie. Pours a lightly misty gold, good frothy white head. Strong bourbon on the nose. Taste seems a little too weighted on the bourbon influence, masking the underlying Delirium Tremens, and in fact any yeasty blonde notes, a little too much. It's fine overall, quite boozy with some light vanilla and woody nutty moments, but there seemed to be more harmony of flavours with the Duvel Barrel-Aged.

75cl bottle (Bourbon BA) from Colruyt Avenue de Roodebeek in Brussels. F: huge, egg-white, long lasting. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: malty, bit woody, rum like alcohol, vanilla touch, caramel. T: medium body, strong boozy, bit woody, hint of vanilla, some watery caramel, almost medium carbonation, very strange for bourbon BA but what to expect here, still drinkable and not very overpriced.