Delirium Café Explained

Delirium Café
Address:French: Impasse de la Fidélité|italic=no / Dutch; Flemish: Getrouwheidsgang|italic=no
Location Town:1000 City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region
Location Country:Belgium
Coordinates:50.8484°N 4.3539°W
Building Type:Pub

Delirium Café is a bar in Brussels, Belgium, known for its long beer list, standing at 2,004 brands in January 2004 as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.[1] [2] On offer are beers from over 60 countries, including many Belgian beers.[3] The bar's name comes from the beer Delirium Tremens (produced by the Huyghe family brewery), the pink elephant symbol of which also decorates the bar's entrance.

The bar is located in a small alley called the French: Impasse de la Fidélité|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Getrouwheidsgang|italic=no ("Fidelity Alley"), only a couple of hundred metres from the Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square). The Jeanneke Pis statue is across the street from the entrance.

History

The establishment was founded in December 2003 by Joël Pêcheur, Fabienne Charles and Jean De Laet.[4] [5] A month later, it was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the establishment offering the most different brands of beer in the world (in this case 2004, imported from over 60 different countries).[6] By the mid-2000s, the bar was selling 1,500 hl of beer a year.

Delirium Café has been expanded internationally, opening 26 franchises as of 2024, including in Rio de Janeiro (2010), Tokyo (2011), São Paulo and Warsaw (2014), Lisbon (2017), Toulouse and Reims (dates unknown), Leesburg (2017), Strasbourg (2017), and Kuala Lumpur (2018).[7]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 9 January 2004 . Most varieties of beer commercially available . 20 April 2024 . Guinness World Records.
  2. Web site: Joël Pêcheur verkoopt meer dan 2000 soorten bier . 2024-04-20 . www.bruzz.be . nl.
  3. Web site: Available beers . 2013-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150155/http://deliriumcafe.be/bieres.html?___store=deliriumcafe_en . 2015-04-02 . dead .
  4. Web site: Rensonnet . Julien . 2024-04-20 . Café mythique, le Delirium fête ses 10 ans avec 11 microbrasseurs québécois: «On ne ferme pas la porte aux brasseurs industriels» . 2024-04-20 . lavenir.net . fr.
  5. Web site: R . J. . 2024-04-20 . Joël Pêcheur, fondateur du Delirium Café, quitte le célèbre bar aux 2000 bières . 2024-04-20 . lavenir.net . fr.
  6. Web site: Joël Pêcheur verkoopt meer dan 2000 soorten bier . 2024-04-20 . www.bruzz.be . nl.
  7. Web site: Worldwide . 2024-04-20 . Delirium Village Brussels . en-US.