The bottle has a nice speckled stoneware look to it, although you can see it's painted brown glass at the top, still pretty though. the label is silver with a pink elephant wearing a double cherry earring. The label says "DELIRIUM RED" "BELGIAN ALE" "Ale brewed and flavored with natural flavor and with stevia added". It's a 1 pint 9.4 fluid ounce bottle with 8% abv., ganna be a bit of a job finishing this. It's a pop quark styled bottle with a red metal retainer. Since my roommate isn't in, I'm going to go ahead and pop it.
It makes a good pop sound when it comes out, but it does not launch itself. It has a very fruity nose from the bottle. I've packed most of my glasses up, but the Rochefort is still out so I'm going to use that. It has a deep red color, burgundy really. It has a very cherry scent, just like cheerwine, or cherry pipe tobacco. This tastes more like cherry wine than it does beer. It's sweet, but not sickly sweet, kind of a tart cherry. I suppose it's a little refreshing to have a beer that doesn't have any hopps, but it just doesn't taste like beer without them. It's noticeably acidic, but not noticeably alcoholic, the acidity being the only thing to slow you down. It's got a very little amount of pink head in the center and around the rim, mainly thanks to the goblet's agitator. If there's any other flavors here, I can't taste them. It's straight cherry cobbler, or cherry pie.
So I've taken to eating raw Kale and Broccoli, they have anti-carcinogens and are generally good for you. Fresh Kale and fresh Broccoli taste quite similar, which is good as I was raised to like Broccoli (thanks Mom). Those who spend a great deal of time around me know my affinity for meats and other animal products. I have long maintained that eating plant's isn't entirely necessary, you can get everything you need from animals, but the reverse is not quite true. It is true that you can live without animal products, but not without a myriad of problems and a great deal of supplements. Although it should be mentioned, living without eating plants comes with it's own set of issues, but no short term ones that are more than a paltry nuance. In the long term it does have it's problems, but most of those are problems that are common with old age anyways, but made more likely with a exclusively carnivorous diet. I suppose my problem with veganism is the fact that they try to pass it off as a healthy lifestyle when it is not, it is a moral choice not to eat animals. There is not a vegan I know with whom this is not the case. Are they afraid that people will mock them for their position on not wanting to kill animals? I suppose this position can be admirable but I don't agree with the "health benefits" argument, just come out and say it, you don't believe in killing animals. I often bring up the study by Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his friend K. Anderson, who ate meat exclusively for a year and came out with no ill effects, Although it was found that you absolutely need a great deal of fat to be able to digest that meat. I find it strange that that is the only major study I can find of eating exclusively meat, and it was published in 1930. There are people who do eat only meat out there on the internet, but they are not exactly a conclusive study. You also have aboriginal people like the Inuit who live their whole lives almost entirely on animals, which is where Dr. Stefansson got the Idea for his study. I would like to try it sometime, but I would need access to a market that would sell me any part of the animal (brains, liver, tongue, anything and everything really) and have the spare cash to buy it all.
It's finished. It wasn't a great beer, but it was a very good drink. I would like to try more non hopp beers, they seem like a whole new level of beer. On a special occasion, I would defiantly say this is one to have. I give it my blurry seal of approval.
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