Odd that I have no notes on this beer until now, I’ve had it several times previously. This pour (pictured is from a draft offering at JK O’Donnel’s Irish Pub, Fort Wayne, IN.

(After the fact, I found a 2016 picture of any earlier tasting and notes from 2014 below, too)

Appearance as expected with decent lace and a lingering film on the surface of the golden body. Crystal clear.

Nose is very sweet – surprisingly so, and the overwhelming experience in the aroma for me is wave after wave of pear drops.

No oily slickness or cloying elements in the mouthfeel – dry.

The pear drop experience follows into the initial tastes, but it dries VERY quickly. Again, surprisingly so. Alcohol is present, but it doesn’t build very much, and not in the manner that I thought it might. This beer is oddly clean and the tastes very neutral compared to the experience I might have been anticipating.

Some fruit, but ever dry, especially in the back end. The back end dry nature starts to become a touch bitter. Remains clean. I’m amazed by the lack of sweetness here. Clean, dry, and strong and not a beer that does what one might expect.

Original notes 07/11/14

The usual Delirium presentation in the painted bottle, the cork almost took my head off – be careful!

An extremely light, golden colored pour with a with a wispy, high white head of no density. Lace and retention a little below average.

Nose offers a yeasty, neutrality with some alcohol overtones

The beer is usurpingly stark and dry, with a very bitter edge and some serious alcohol elements. It’s clean as whistle, almost to a fault, and offers more than one or two notes of white, vinous character. Gooseberries, green apples and a touch of grape, all from the perspective of green, light tartness rather than fruit, the beer overs a hard green edge amongst the Belgian yeast and alcohol notes.

This is a dry, relatively bitter and quite harsh BSPA, and it takes no prisoners. Generally I’m in favor of such things, but this beer lacks grace in some ways and that’s to its detriment.

One and done, there’s really no point in drinking anything other than the three, original stable of Delirium beers IMO.