The Delirium Café offers more than 2,000 beers from around the world and holds the Guinness World Record for the number of beers available for tasting, with 2,004 beers in 2004. You can choose from a wide variety of Belgian and foreign beers, including Trappist beers, strong brown beers, fruity beers, and light beers. Unusual beers such as chocolate, banana, coconut, spiced, chili, gingerbread, and even gluten-free beers are also available.
Galerie photos
Jamie Lantzy, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jamie Lantzy, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Description
The establishment was founded in December 2003 by Joël Pêcheur, Fabienne Charles, and Jean De Laet. A month later, it was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the establishment offering the most different brands of beer in the world (at that time, 2004, imported from more than 60 different countries). In the mid-2000s, the bar sold 1,500 hl of beer per year.
The bar is located in a small cul-de-sac near the Grand-Place, called Impasse de la Fidélité (Getrouwheidsgang). The Jeanneke Pis statue is across the street.
The bar’s name comes from the beer Delirium Tremens (produced by the Huyghe Family Brewery), with which it shares its symbol: a pink elephant.
Franchises
In the 2000s, the Delirium Café became a franchise that expanded worldwide.
There are 20 bars in France (Compiègne, Le Mans, Nantes, Orléans, Tours, Toulouse, Brest, Rouen, Strasbourg, Clermont-Ferrand, Nancy, Amiens, Angers, Reims, Rennes, Lille, Caen, Montpellier, Dijon, and Lorient), four in Tokyo (Japan), two in Brazil, two in Italy (Bergamo and Rome), two in Belgium (Brussels and Andenne), one in the Netherlands, one in Germany, one in Austria, one in Portugal, and one in Malaysia.
