Delirium Tremensat Zax Pints and Plates!

Austinites, below I have copied the text of an an email sent to me from Mike Baldwin, one of the two owners of Zax Pint's and Plates, detailing a choice libation currently available for our enjoyment.  Mike has put the very rare, Belgium brewed, Delirium Tremens beer on tap for all of us to enjoy.

For those of you who don't know about Delirium Tremens, it is a very rare beer from Belgium that is often rated the best beer in the world, and on most beer critics top five list, if not the their number one choice (this includes Michael Jackson, The Beer Hunter). 

As an example here is a passage from Beer Paradise in the UK:

Definition: Delirium Tremens A state of fevered agitation, trembling of the appendages, hallucination and troubled consciousness, attributable to alcoholic intoxication.

It is often in this state that drinkers begin to see the fabled pink elephants featured on the labels of the distinctive Delirium Tremens bottles.  The beer is brewed by the Huyghe brewery, which has been in existence since 1654 and now exports their production from Belgium.

Delirium Tremens is a beer of fine manufacture and was voted ‘Best Beer in the World’ by specialists in 1997.  Conceived with three different yeasts it presents a beautiful colour, blond and coppery as well as a compact and abundant head. The beer has a  nose of wheat and barley with traces of coriander and orange. Full and round in the mouth it is also spicy, with a pleasant bitterness to the  taste.

Take care though – this beer has an abv of 9% so those pink elephants are never far away!

For those of you who are beer drinkers, I would highly recommend swinging by Zax this week and tasting this Belgium elixir. If you aren't a fan of beer's, I would suggest trying DT, it's flavor and feel are that of a very complex wine or after dinner aperitif.

Original Email:

On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Mike Baldwin wrote:

OK Drew,

True to my word we should have the Delirium Tremens on tap on Friday night.  Whether or not to keep it on will be up to customer response...

..but look for and enjoy it soon.

Mike

You can find out more about this devilishly delicious brew at the Oxford Bottled Beer Database.

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