Brasserie Dunham The Red Sashes (2015 - Vin Rouge, Cognac & Armagnac + Brett)

The Red Sashes (2015 - Vin Rouge, Cognac & Armagnac + Brett)

 

Brasserie Dunham in Dunham, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦

  Barley Wine - Rye Regular Out of Production
Score
6.98
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 125 Ticks: 8
Cette année, la Red Sashes a été entièrement vieillie en barriques (vin rouge, cognac, armagnac) avec de la brett et ré-assemblée après quelques mois de repos bien mérité.
 

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4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17

Much more challenging than previous years. A well blended nose features figs, brown sugar and some booziness. A great unfiltered looking dark gold body with a massive off-white head - unusual for a BW variation. The 125 IBUs stand up and are counted at the front end of the taste profile. A bitter, rindy fruitiness combines well with prunes, apricots leather, a hint of sourness and pepper. Underpinned by a sweet malt background and solid thick body, a nice hint of booze warms the whole thing up. A great example of casking that works for the beer, not against it. Challenging sipper that keeps reinventing itself as you sip your way through it.

Tried from Cask on 23 Sep 2025 at 20:02


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Saveur Biere. Vintage 2015. Hazy amber red with a huge beige head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, bretty, red wine and wood. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and very bitter finish. Carbonation is a bit high. 250917

Tried from Bottle on 25 Sep 2017 at 12:54


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Small bottle (thx, L.-P. B.!). Pours a hazy amber with a beige head. Aroma is bretts, fruity. Similar taste. Too much bretts already...

Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2017 at 01:56


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle 0.341l at home, Vantaa. Bottled 2015. Colour is murky light brown with large white head. Aromas and flavours: Ripe fruits, some burning alcohol, grain, vineous elements, dryness, wood, ryebread, some berries and malts. Maybe too aged, little bit of too carbonated but some nice grainy malty elements. Boozy too.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2017 at 13:22


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle "2015", 11%. Unclear dark amber with big beige head. Aroma is malt, brett, dark fruit, oak, wood, caramel and a little wine. Flavour is malt, brett, little over carbonated, medium sweet, oak, wood, dry, little sour, warming and bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2017 at 14:59


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

23rd April 2016
Mild gusher. Hazy deep amber beer, good cream colour head. Cream and candy on the nose. Palate is airy and fairly crisp. Big bretty start, savoury bitter brett. Crystallised fruits and a little cherry. Bretty floralness and a light malt cream. Bitter bretty finish. A brett bomb but it’s has enough else going on to be ultimately quite seductive.

Tried from Can on 01 May 2016 at 05:04


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bouteille 341ml. Couleur acajou foncée trouble, mousse moka pâle riche et onctueuse laissant une belle dentelle. Arôme de Brett, malt grillé, datte, figue, boisé, épicé provenant du seigle, poussiéreux. Goût de Brett, amertume intense, malt grillé, fruits confits, houblon résineux, touche de café, alcool bien camouflé, seigle. Carbonatation faible, corps dense, sirupeuse.

Tried on 29 Nov 2015 at 21:11


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle - Tons of funky sour stone fruit and tropical notees. Cloudy copper with a rich beige head. Tart and acidic up front, but that fruity funky prevails nicely and finishes bitter. Nice sweetness and balanced funk with a nice perfumy bitterness. Lots going on and well done.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2015 at 23:53