Huyghe Alcohol-Free Beers

Brouwerij Huyghe is a fourth-generation family brewery in Melle, near Ghent, best known for Delirium Tremens and its pink elephant. It makes three beers at 0.3%, Delirio, Paranoia Alcohol Free and Paranoia Rouge, and all three are on sale in the UK.

Who are Huyghe?

Léon Huyghe came to Melle from Poperinge in 1902 to work at the local brewery, Huyghe says, and the business dates its founding to 1906; there had been brewing on the site since at least 1654. It took the name Brewery Leon Huyghe in 1938, by its history page. For decades its main beer was a pilsner, before it turned to the strong Belgian ales it’s known for today. The Oxford Companion to Beer calls it the oldest active brewery near Ghent.

Huyghe is still a family business: Alain De Laet, the fourth generation, owns and runs it, and it’s a member of Belgian Family Brewers, so we show it as independent. It sells to more than 100 countries, Inside.beer reported in 2024, and in December 2024 it bought another family brewery, Het Anker in Mechelen, which makes Gouden Carolus.

Delirium Tremens and the pink elephant

Huyghe first brewed Delirium Tremens on 26 December 1988, it says. In 1997 the American beer writer Stuart A. Kallen named it the best beer in the world, and in 1998 it won a gold medal at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Huyghe says. We used to say it was crowned at a championship, which mixed the two up. The pink elephant now appears across a whole range, from Delirium Red and Nocturnum to Delirio, and the Delirium Café in Brussels takes its name from the beer.

Huyghe’s beers at 0.3%

Delirio, launched in October 2024, is the Delirium range’s blond at 0.3%. Huyghe said at the launch that it’s brewed with an alternative yeast that makes no alcohol of its own; the finished beer is 0.3%. It won bronze at the World Beer Awards 2026, and we score it 8.0. It pours clear, as the shops describe it; we used to say it had a gentle haze.

Paranoia Alcohol Free is a hazy, unfiltered blond, dry-hopped with Citra and Mosaic, Huyghe says, and Paranoia Rouge is a cherry beer; both are 0.3%, from Huyghe’s smaller Paranoia brand, and new to UK shops in 2026. Huyghe’s other brands, from Mongozo to St. Idesbald, are full strength. We used to list only Delirio, and to say Dry Drinker sold it; Dry Drinker’s only Delirio listing is for cans, which were sold out.

The Huyghe beers in our directory

Checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Huyghe’s alcohol-free beers

On 28 October 2026 Wise Bartender had Delirio at £2.90 a bottle and Paranoia Rouge at £3, and Dry Drinker had Paranoia Alcohol Free from £19.53 for six bottles; those are affiliate links. The Whisky Exchange lists all three. For more Belgian beers under 0.5%, see our guide to the best Belgian alcohol-free beers.

Facts checked against Huyghe’s and Delirium’s websites, Belgian Family Brewers, Inside.beer, VRT, Made-in.be, the Oxford Companion to Beer, the World Beer Awards 2026 winners list, Wise Bartender, Dry Drinker and The Whisky Exchange, October 2026.