Delirio
Brouwerij Huyghe

bottle into glass
Thick 'n' creamy white head. Clear, medium amber appearance. Slightly spiced juicy fruit gum with a slightly floral malty note, for the aroma. Light amount of mineral tinged, and tiny bit fruity, lightly toasted malt, for the taste. Body is a bit thin, and finish is mineral laden malt.

 

 

The aroma is light but has elements of a Belgian beer. There is a yeastiness to this beer as well as biscuit malt and grassy hops. The appearance is golden with a nice lingering head. The taste is like the aroma with a light bitter sweet finish. The palate is a tad on the thin side but decent for the style. Overall a nice beer and one of the better N/A beers. It's nearly flawless but quite mild and not distinct. That said it's solidly good but not my favorite N/A beer.

Bottle date code: L25-25140

Bright gold with billowing foam, intricate lacing adheres around the tulip glass rim.

Bubblegum, citrus candy, grainy wheat aromas.

Taste is clean and lightly malty with a Belgian yeast note of bubblegum and dried herbs, possibly coriander. Mild herbal hop bitterness in the dry finish. Light, crisp, effervescent feel.

Overall this is a good NA beer, and succeeds at mimicking a Belgian Pale fairly well. It was a novelty buy for me, but it’s certainly not bad.

Music pairing: Scotch - Delirio Mind

Poured from 330mL bottle into my BeerAdvocate teku. Date code was 25-062, so maybe bottled the 62nd day of 2025? Not sure.

Appearance: median golden hue with a clear body and two fingers of frothy ivory foam atop which leave a bit of chunky lace on the glass.

Smell: mildly sweet with the pear aroma that I love so much in a Belgian pale ale or tripel. On top of that is a lovely little hint of flowery coriadner. I dig it.

Taste: a lot like the aroma, though a bit sweeter. Floral and fruity from the coriander, but with that pear quality from the yeast. For an NA beer, this is really quite good indeed.

Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a decent carbonation and creaminess. Doesn’t stack up to most full-booze Belgians, but still it’s not bad.

Overall: one of the best NA beers I’ve had. Like I said, it doesn’t hold up to non-NA beers of its type, but for NA, you’d be hard pressed to find a better Belgian analogue.

Without seeking this style, Delirio is the fifth Low Alcohol brew I've had in six months from established Belgian brewers. Here's my take on why. It took a while for this brewing process to get better. But once micros figured it out, the process could spread. But the key to flavourful LAs is the yeast. And Belgians have the best yeast, IMHO. So, adding an LA to their trademark lines is a simple way for Belgian brewers to protect their market share.

As for Delirio, the yeast doesn't show much liveliness; but is still respectable. Smells are mostly tart apples. Tastes are well balanced with the hops coming back in periodically to counter the sweet. Almost a semi-dry finish. Better than medium-mouthed in a very light style.

Overall, this is a very good LA... perhaps one of the better ones I've had.

 

this is awesome, a non alcoholic beer if high quality and authenticity, on a cold palate this could pass as a proper belgian blonde, is a whole league up from the chouffe one, none of the metallic or weird back end and warming up, it feels and looks like real beer, impressive on every level, i would drink this, sober or not. so many of these just approximate beer, but this one is beer to me. the pour is a big part of that, shiny sunny blonde with a high lasting white head from the fancy feeling bottle that frankly looks like a proper belgian beer, no trace of this being non alcoholic here, and i think thats a big part of it for people, especially when they are out, so good on them for this, good clarity and sparkle, beautiful really. the nose and taste have modest up front sweetness, a honey note, and then an actual belgian fermentation profile, coriander and white pepper, light clove and sweet valencia orange, so bright, with light bitterness late, rock candy sweetness but still quick, star anise and fennel, and fully effervescent, chardonnay character too, its real dynamic, and it doesnt break down at all as it sits. i love it having a bit of body, some real old world belgian authenticity, and i think this takes non alcoholic to a place it has really yet to get to, wow. truly beautiful stuff, to be expected from this brewery of course, but the whole category has been a disappointment for me really, until this. absolutely a must for the sober crowd or anyone taking a break, its killer! glad it exists! feels elegant and fancy and real, bravo!

A: crystal clear; medium gold in color; a 1+ finger finely pored ivory head that receded to a wispy cap with a moderate tight collar; nice rings of lace;

S: banana;

T: banana candy from start to finish; a little tobacco from the middle through the end; also a hint of lemon; very mild bitterness in the aftertaste;

M: light to medium bodied; moderate carbonation; moderately dry finish;

O: better than most NA beers; a bit too sweet for my taste; would have liked a little coriander in the flavor for balance;

Gold in color with excellent clarity with a fingernail of dishwater white around the rim and covering most of the top. Light, soapy lacing is present. The aroma is of coriander and banana. I’m tasting coriander and pale wheat. The mouth is crisp and refreshing.

From a 330 ml bottle stamped L18-25062. Sampled Oct 24, 2025.

The pour is golden and bright with a short lasting white fizzy head.

In the aroma, I immediately pick up banana esters along with vague clove and coriander, toasted grains, tobacco, orange zest, and citrus.

The mouthfeel is light-medium and smooth, not watery.

The flavor is sweet and fruity for the most part with a citrus zing to finish it off. A very good N/A. One of the better ones I have had.

Of the NA beers I've had so far, this is the closest to a real beer. Realistic head and lacing. Mouthfeel close to a light lager (still way off from Delirium Tremens), and flavour profile close to a lighter version of Delirium Tremens. There are even ester-like notes as in a real beer. Quite a surprise!

 

 

I get plenty of banana in the nose but none in my tastebuds for some reason. Not much going on besides coriander seed, typical NA beer wort flavor and and an odd metallic flavor which fades as the beer warms. No hops or phenols. Very thin in both flavor and mouthfeel. I flipped the bottle before pouring because I like the yeast sediment in conditioned beers, which was a silly thing to do. If I had put a bit more thought into it I would've known there is no way this could possibly be bottle conditioned lmao.