BROUWERIJ HUYGHE "DELIRIUM NOEL" BELGIAN STRONG DARK ALE, 750ML, MELLE/GHENT, BELGIUM

BROUWERIJ HUYGHE "DELIRIUM NOEL" BELGIAN STRONG DARK ALE, 750ML, MELLE/GHENT, BELGIUM

Christmas time, Christmas beer. Easy choice, encased in a shiny foil capped faux-ceramic bottle, with Santa leading a team of pink elephants on a spacey (in more than one way) flight away from Earth. This 750ml beer pours a very dark red brick amber hue, with swirling sediment, and one finger of creamy, cake batter-like ecru head, which seeps away slowly, leaving a raised ring of barbed lace around the glass in the process. It smells of sweet cherry cordial, caramel/toffee malt, saucy raisins, vanilla, and mild cinnamon/clove-like spices, all very complex. The taste is musty caramel malt, a bit of tannic red wine fruit character, more subtle earthy spice, and a persistent, non-partisan dryness – the hops and well obfuscated alcohol the usual suspects. The booze is only eventually perceptible in the slightly medicinal fruitiness that evolves as the beer warms (amongst my central heating, and lack of roaring fire environs, malheureusement). A lovely, complicated, and remarkably easy to put back (not that I did, or should you) strong dark Belgian ale – and the plucky dryness sure would help when sided with more of that good ol’ Christmas baking.ABV 10%
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51-B-DLRNOEL
$13.99

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