CS3 - Eastie Boys "Red Rackham's Treasure"

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on August 9, 2009 at 5:18pm

Pours a deep copper with a tight white head, aroma of sweet malt and hints of banana with a sublte spicy motueka type thing going on... Taste is toasted caramel with a dry finish, hints of spice as well! Very moreish!

Nice beer mate, cheers ;o)

Permalink Reply by Barry on August 9, 2009 at 6:43pm

Shared with my Father in law
Deep copper red with a rocky tightly packed off-white head. Clove and spice on the nose, hint of banana.
Super refreshing to taste, toasty melanoidin-rich malty and spicy, good medium mouthfeel and a long motueka-filled finish in perfect balance.

Lovely beer, expertly brewed. A real class act. Cheers Stu.

Permalink Reply by Martin Bridges on August 14, 2009 at 10:23pm

As usual, not looked at the other comments on this.

Another gorgeous looking beer. Copper/mahogany in colour, brilliantly clear with an off-white head that lasts all the way down the glass.

Lovely fresh-baked bread aroma, with a hint of spiciness lurking in the background.

Extremely complex palate. Juicy malt with toasty overtones jousting with a hint of bitterness. Full-bodied and lovely.

Man this is a good beer. I've always been a bit dubious about Belgian pales in the past. Generally they tend to be a bit too Belgian with not enough pale. This one was like a good English pale fermented with Belgian yeast - it trod the line perfectly. Excellent work Stu.

Permalink Reply by MrC on September 23, 2009 at 10:09am

So Stu, what was the secret ingredient?
Lactose?
Some other creamy substance maybe?

Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on September 23, 2009 at 11:56am

European ale yeast... I was concerned that I'd underpitched so I added a wee started of WLP011.

Has anyone compared Plan K with Red Rackham? Any preferences? I prefer the Plan K... Red Rackham was too cloying for me. I always enjoyed the first half of the glass but not the second half.

Permalink Reply by JoKing on September 24, 2009 at 7:08am

You never told us what that special ingredient was in the end did you.

I reckon it was a bit of that molasses.

Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on September 24, 2009 at 7:10am

Nah it was a dunkofnuts. Nah it sounds like it was the WLP011

Permalink Reply by JoKing on September 24, 2009 at 7:26am

Yes.... now that you mention it... it looks like you could be right. I suppose one could interperet Stu's explaination as such.

Very intuitive Mike... Good reading comprehension... Very good.

Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on October 13, 2009 at 9:58am

Cracked my second to last stubbie of this last night (I bottle off beers when I'm no longer interested in drinking it off tap). I had been meaning to have one of these with Joking over the weekend, as he'd brought down his Plan J, but instead I threw a few big boys (and a BIG curry) at him - PKB (remixed), His Majesty and Uinta XVI Anniversary Barleywine.

Hells teeth! If you put Red Rackham next to Plan K right now I'd struggle to tell the difference!! There's actually a little hint of green banana in Red Rackham but besides that it seems like the same beer - the age has helped drop the cloying character that I didn't like in the early days.

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