Mountain Goat Steam Ale - Now where's my pizza?

'I'll have a steamed mountain goat thanks' - not something you'd hear outside of a foreign country with copious mountins whose name will have you tripping over your tongue in your attempts to pronounce it but that's what we're trying this arvo. An organic steamed Mountain Goat. Thankfully I didn't need a sherpa handy to buy one..






What happens when you pop the top off the bottle?: Well sadly no steam escapes. This would be a pretty cool party trick (how they'd do that is beyond me, do I look like a brewer?) and maybe it could whistle like a train? Anyway it's a very clean aroma going on here with nothing really emerging to the surface. It doesn't smell like a goat thankfully either.

Initial thoughts: Very pale straw colour with a medium level head that fades pretty quick. It bubbles away like a hyperactive spa. Very clean taste and palate cleansing like the back label suggests, leaves a slight fizzy taste on your tongue. Strangely when I burped I got a very brief wave of lemon. Yeah I'm classy, I know. It's very neutral with nothing really jumping out from the very limited pack here until you let it warm up and then the wheat notes really come to play with some fruit ghosts. But mostly wheat.

A very fizzy goat

What it would be ideal for: A spicy pizza to help subdue the fire without replacing the flavors. Er...goat stew perhaps?

Overall: It's a bit dry but very clean and crisp. I would call this a transitional beer as a carry over when you're having a big session with various flavours. On it's own though? There's not really much happening here. There's a bit more flavor going on than the Kirin from previous but unless you're a big fan of wheat beers with more wheat than anything else, you might try a different steamed animal. 

2.5 out of 5 Grumpy Goats

COURAGEOUS CLASH OF THE CRAFT CLANS SCOREBOARD SO FAR:

1. PIRATE LIFE
2. SINGLE FIN
3. BURLEIGH 28
4. MOUNTAIN GOAT STEAM ALE