Saison Rustique
Brasserie Dunham

Saison RustiqueSaison Rustique
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From:
Brasserie Dunham
 
Quebec, Canada
Style:
Saison
ABV:
6%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.79 | pDev: 7.12%
Reviews:
16
Ratings:
57
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jul 16, 2020
Added:
Aug 03, 2012
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  10
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Ratings by Phyl21ca:
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Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)

3.84/5  rDev +1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Bottle: Poured hazy dirty beige color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of rustic malt notes with some dry floral aroma notes with light peppery yeast notes. Taste is dominated by refreshing and easy drinking rustic malt notes with dry floral notes and a peppery yeast finish. Body is quite full with limited filtration and good carbonation. Easy drinking with just enough complexity and good attenuation with limited residual sugar notes.
May 24, 2013
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Reviewed by avalon07 from South Carolina

3.85/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
L: Poured from a bottle to a snifter glass. Had a brownish / yellow color and a mostly cloudy consistency. There was a massive creamy, fluffy, very long-lasting head. Excellent lacing.

S: A pretty good, but not brilliant, aroma of citrus fruit, barnyard funk, yeast, hops, spices, and wheat.

T: Tasted of a bit of yeast (a nice backbone), a decent amount of citrus fruit (lemon, in particular), a little hops (not a huge factor), some of the saison barnyard funk, a little wheat (mostly in the finish; not a big element), and some spices (pepper, especially). A decent enough flavor, but it doesn't jump out at you. Still, not bad.

F: A well-carbonated beer with a sharp finish. Medium-bodied.

O: A solid, if slightly uneven beer. Worth a look.
Jul 16, 2020
 
Rated: 3.75 by BAsbill from California

Jun 22, 2019
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Reviewed by TigerSoul from New Jersey

3.91/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Lovely little Saison from the good folks at Dunham. The nose is clove and black pepper, but not overpowering on either. The brett adds a little musty funk, but, again, nothing too prominent. Very dry finish, in fact one of the driest finishes I've had on any Saison. This style is one of my favorites, and I shall return to this particular version whenever I return to Montreal during the year.
Mar 20, 2019
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Reviewed by Bruno74200 from France

3.93/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hazy yellow, small white head

Peppery and spicy nose with apple and pear notes

The taste follows with very little funk notes.

Quite dry, moderate to low carbonation

Okay saison
Jan 09, 2019
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

3.67/5  rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Simple saison. Dry, slight funk, cracker malt, some mild orange and floral flavors. Smell and taste are identical, with taste drying up to crisp finish. Nothing too exciting, but well constructed.
Sep 30, 2018
 
Rated: 4.33 by Simon212 from Canada (ON)

Aug 29, 2018
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming

4.21/5  rDev +11.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Bought at Liquor Shed.

Pours a lightly hazed straw yellow, oodles of foam (served room temperature), fine lacing.

Smells flowery, yeasty, notes of coriander and light clove, earthy, with a pinch of lemon zest.

The taste lives up to the smell. Earthy, coriander and clove, yeasty, some lemon zest, very dry finish.

Medium bodied with lively carbonation.

A nice find at the local for me.
May 18, 2018
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Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois

3.97/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
My first from Brasserie Dunham. I like their bi-cultural name, their bi-tradition offerings (B&B, Brits & Belgians) and their artistic label. Beyond the packaging, there is a good ale inside: pleasant start; dry finish. Let's analyze what's in-between.

Smells give me a fruit melange and a malt medley, mostly because Brasserie Dunham seems to have cultivated a full yeast... and then added a modest Brett. In unpacking the malt, I detect a little wheat that softens the barley. Fruit has mostly lemon, but lurking there is some apple or maybe pear. What pulls all together for me is the proper use of Brett. Too much Brett tries to steal the show; makes it too tart for most foods. Brasserie Dunham uses just enough Brett to make the rest of the ale perform distinctly.

One weakness is its dryness closes up the salavary glands and probably makes it harder for the food to work on them.

However A really good saison makes me salivate for more food... and, of course, more saison.

I probably will have another Rustique someday; but probably not until I've tried a few saisons from Dunham.
Mar 11, 2018
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Rated by eberesford from Canada (ON)

3.85/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours misty straw good head and good lacing. Aroma: tropical fruit and funk. Flavour: tropical fruit, leather, hay.
Sep 14, 2017
 
Rated: 3.8 by liamt07 from Canada (ON)

Aug 27, 2017
 
Rated: 3.81 by SadMachine from New Jersey

Aug 07, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by zotzot from Vermont

Jul 21, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by Abbott from Canada (QC)

Jul 03, 2017
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.68/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
750ml bottle - so what exactly makes this Saison 'rustic'?

This beer pours a slightly hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some decent misty London afternoon lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.

It smells of grainy and crackery wheat malt, an edgy and bordering on phenolic yeastiness, muddled pale orchard fruit (maybe some banana and citrus trying to stand out), ethereal black peppercorns, and some understated leafy and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy wheaten malt, a lesser cereal graininess, damp banana chips, an almost clove-like spiciness, faintly funky yeast, subtle lemon citrus zest notes, and more gentle leafy, weedy, and herbal verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-crashing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, but for that hovering yeasty astringency. It finishes off-dry, the base wheaten malt holding things more or less steady.

Overall, this does seem rather rustic, or basic in its Saison qualifications - wheaty, yeasty, spicy, and just a wee bit hoppy. Sure, the yeast gets a little too handsy for me to want to drink very much of this, but I can still call Saison Rustique a generally well-made version of the style.
Jan 11, 2017
 
Rated: 3.78 by Jerk_Store from Canada (QC)

Nov 23, 2016
 
Rated: 3.64 by Supergenou from Canada (QC)

Nov 06, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by kylehay2004 from Illinois

Oct 30, 2016
 
Rated: 3.73 by psweendogg from Connecticut

Sep 16, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by mklisz from New Hampshire

Jul 18, 2016
Saison Rustique from Brasserie Dunham
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 57 ratings