Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

(Tap) slightly hazy, bright yellow amber colour with a small white head; aroma of tartness, balanced flavour with a long, light bitter and tart finish

With Barry and Hilde @ de Tol

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

0.75l bottle thanks to Lore. Slightly hazy golden body with a lasting white head. Aroma and taste of green apples, wood, sugar syrup, bready malts and lemon peel. Surprising style from Delirium, but nice for sure.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

opalescent golden colour, medium sized dense ivory-like white head; aroma of grainy-bread crusty, grape, vinous, citric acidy, sour green apple, some acetic acidy, and acetone and slight vanilla notes; taste is similar to the aroma with more intensive (unripe) fruity notes and also some woody-barrel notes; not bad

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

The latest addition to Huyghe's Delirium range so far, sold exclusively through the Colruyt supermarket chain, until the end of August this year - I was not particularly searching for it when I was at the Colruyt of Sint-Denijs-Westrem last week, but I guess I was lucky then to get one of the last available bottles. The follow-up to Delirium Sour Quadruple, which is a bourbon barrel aged and soured edition of Delirium Nocturnum, I assume this is the original Delirium Tremens having undergone the same treatment. White lacquered bottle of 75 cl, under high pressure, but not a gusher. Thick, off-white, cobweb-lacing, foamy, stable head on a misty peach blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of strong oak-produced vanilla, buttermilk, white yoghurt, yellow plum, cooked apple, sugared lime juice, touch caramel, banana, pineapple, lemonbalm, Zespri kiwi, hint of musty cellar. Tart onset but 'mals', colourfully fruity with impressions of pineapple, yellow plum, some banana, kiwi and gooseberry jam, fizzily carbonated with slight minerally effect; a green apple-like sourness comes to the foreground after the sour-sweet onset, depositing a sour edge round a supple cereally and bread-pulpy malt base, with essentially very lactic character (kefir, yoghurt). Remains altogether brightly fruity till the end, where pronounced oaky vanillin appears along with a very faint floral hoppiness and thyme- and lemonbalm-like spicy accents; woodiness is present but not strongly tannic, hop bitterness too remains very limited and it is that yellow fruitiness which lasts, highlighted by a calvados-like alcohol glow. Somewhat odd and unbalanced, lacking the refinement of a truly great, complexely soured 'sour ale' and with the lactic acid probably just added from a bottle, but on the other hand, I had dozens of Huyghe beers and was impressed by literally none of them so far - whereas this one does make me doubt a bit that perhaps they are capable of producing more interesting beers after all... Benefit of the doubt, in spite of the flavours clashing a bit here and there, this is clearly better than any other Huyghe beer I had to date. Too bad they limited it to Colruyt and the month of August only.