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RE: Delirium Tremens - Brouwerij Huyghe - Beer Review (STEEMFest 3 Edition)
Hey Jeff,
Cool of you to do a little review of one of the best beers of my country (and the world!). Do you know why there are pink elephants on the bottle though?
Why the pink elephants?
according to wikipedia: Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens The term dates back to at least the early 20th century, emerging from earlier idioms about snakes and other creatures. An alcoholic character in Jack London's 1913 novel John Barleycorn is said to hallucinate "blue mice and pink elephants".
Interesting, I’ve never heard that term before !
Thanks for the fun fact!