Mountain Goat Beer

New Goat Required.

Dave — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:41:09 +0000

Mountain Goat Brewery is seeking a part time bar & functions supervisor (20 – 30 hours per week).
Considerable bar experience is a must as is a passion for craft beer.
The successful candidate will possess outstanding organisational and communication skills and be enthusiastic about leading a team of friendly staff.
RSA and driver’s licence are mandatory.
Please send resumes to sam@goatbeer.com.au

And so this is Christmas…

cam — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:49:34 +0000

And we know what we’ve done….made a whole whack of beer. We’re feeling ok about that.Down to business. Bar opening hours over the holidays are as follows: We’re open Fri Dec 23rd, closed between Christmas and New Year, and re-open Wednesday 4th Jan, 5pm. Gift ideas for the ones you really love: A stack of new Goaty Merch is about to land and of course beer – Rare Breed longnecks along with Steam and Hightail.We hope you have a ripping Christmas, responsibly drink some great Craft Beer, and all play nice with each other.

What’s In Randy?

Dave — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:45:04 +0000

IN RANDY TONIGHT: 1st & 3rd February, 2012.

Skipping Girl Summer Ale with Fresh Peaches & Mint 4.2% alc/vol, 22IBU

Randy (short for Randall Handle) is a device used to infuse hops (or sometimes fruit, spices and other things nice) into beer just before it’s poured into your glass. It’s about as late a flavour addition as you can get.

Named in honour of “Little Audrey” at the top of Burnley St, Skipping Girl is a fruity, tropical Summer Ale. 30% Wheat Malt, Pilsener Malt and exactly one truckload of Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops (added to the conditioning tank) ring in the beginning of summer (at last). We promise.

Plus:

The Hoeff. Is Back. 5.3%alc/vol, 16BU

Dry, clean, fruity, and just a little bit German, The Hoeff is our Hefeweizen (South-German Cloudy Wheat Beer). A funky Yeast (serving up clove, banana and just a hint of bubblegum), all-German Hops, Australian Malted Barley and Wheat all add up to a sunny Sunday afternoon in Munich…

…on Wednesday and Friday in Richmond. Magic, huh?

Goldilocks Golden Ale with Galaxy Flowers. 4.9%, 24BU.

Goldilocks is a Golden Ale brewed with Pils, Crystal & Wheat malts. We used NZ Green Bullet and Styrian Goldings hops for bittering, dry hopped it with US Amarillo and Andy’d it with Tazzie Galaxy flowers. Whew!!!

Result = Light and zingy.

It’s another one for a Melbourne Summer day minus the hail.

India Pale Ale 6.0% alc/vol, 55 IBU

One where we get to show you our hops. We throw Cascades in the kettle, then dry hop during fermentation with a big whack of Galaxy and some more Cascade. Ale Malt, Malted Wheat and Crystal Malt balance the hoppy goodness.

Warning: Contains hops.

And of course Steam Ale & Hightail Ale.

The brewery is open open Wed & Fri Nights from 5pm. Pizza, wine & soft drink also available.

The Gypsy & The Goat

Dave — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:37:44 +0000

This year’s Melbourne Food & Wine Festival is embracing craft beer more than ever (round of applause). There’s Beer Masterclasses, Liquid Lounges and Beer Breakfasts au go-go.

What’s uber exciting for us, tho’, is they’re bringing out Mikkeller Brewery’s Mikkel Borg Bjergsø from Denmark to talk thru his beer philosophies and gypsy brewing ways. If you haven’t heard of Mikkeller, look ‘em up now.

Even better yet, Mikkel’s gonna do a brew with us.

Even better than that, you can be a part of it.

Whoa.

You see, while the brew goes on we’re going to hold an exclusive 5-course dinner for 30 people, catered by pop-up specialists the 36 collective. These guys have experience working at Attica and Cutler & Co – no muckin’ around there.

Each of the courses will be matched with a Goat and Mikkeller beer, and both Mikkel and our own Chief Brewer Dave Bonighton will be there to rumble with you.

Tickets are $150, available from Dec 2^nd thru Ticketmaster, and will go fast.

To check out other Festival events including the Liquid Lounge and Beer Breakfast go here.

Goats Loose in Sydney

cam — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:02:47 +0000

We’ll be hoofing around Sydney for a couple of nights next week with some IPA and Steam kegs. Tues 11th Oct Cam will be @ Honey Rider at 5:30pm (230 Military Rd, Neutral Bay) and Wed 12th October Cam & Wags will be @ Union Hotel Newtown 5:30pm (576 King St). Stop by for a chat and we’ll fix you up with a beer.

New tanks are in.

Dave — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:17:10 +0000

Right. Just to clear up any confusion we may have caused. We’ve just decommissioned our old brewhouse (6 tanks that drive our brewing operations) and replaced it with a spanking new Canadian system. We’re not moving out, retiring or becoming winemakers. Just upgrading. The new gear spent 6 weeks on a ship and then had tradesmen crawling all over it for the past two weeks in here. The plastic wrap has just come off and you should see the smiles on our brewers’ faces! Drop in any Wed or Fri night when the bar’s open and take a look. And if you want to ask any questions about it, just grab one of us and we’ll talk your leg off.

Goats.

Seedy Goat

Dave — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:07:38 +0000

Our latest Cross Breed is out.

We’ve called it Seedy Goat, and it’s a Coffee IPA. We’re a little excited about it.

It’s a collaboration with our mates at Seven Seeds Coffee Roasters, who brought the coffee expertise.

We’ve integrated coffee into the beer without taking the beeriness out (we still believe beeriness is an important characteristic of beer). What we’ve come up with is a big, hoppy IPA – with a twist of coffee.

It took many beer and coffee sampling sessions but finally we decided on the Nicaraguan ‘Finca El Limoncillo’ Pacamara Bean which displays guava, prune & paw paw flavours.

The coffee partially replaces hops in the bitterness, flavour and aroma of the beer. This is no tacked on flavour, but a complex fruity kick, all the way to the back of your palate.

You’ll find it at good, independent bottleshops, and you can get a draft version when we tap it at Goat Bar this Wednesday and Friday night. (Some of you early birds may have already tried it…)

We hope you dig it like we do…

Goats.

Win a year of beer with Triple R

cam — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:59:37 +0000

Our favourite local community radio station Triple R FM are holding their annual radiothon. This station is an important piece of Melbourne culture and, if you listen, you should subscribe. This year, one of the subscriber prizes is a year of beer from us. We figure 52 cases should get a household thru the year comfortably. More info http://www.rrr.org.au/radiothon/

A Mountain of Boxes

cam — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:37:21 +0000

We recently enlisted the help of our old mates Phooey Architects to design us some new offices above the goat bar and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Pete Ho said we need to make it out of cardboard. Brilliant. So we dug out all our old, disused boxes from the previous generation goat packaging, and started building a mountain. See the pics for the end result. Big thanks to Phooey for the creativity and to Barry, the most patient builder in Australia.

Coffee IPA and Bigfoot

cam — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:57:31 +0000

A couple of exotic Goats on tap here at the brewery at the moment. Our Bigfoot Stout returns (beefed up 7.3% version of Surefoot) and also, for the first time, Coffee IPA. We’ve teamed up with out friends at 7 Seeds who got their hands on some crazy, Nicaraguan beans and we’ve produced a coffee infused IPA. Cascade and Galaxy hops bring it all home .6% abv. Drop in and tell us what you think.