Mountain Goat (CUB/Asahi)

Brewer

Name
Mountain Goat (CUB/Asahi)
Address

80 North Street Richmond
Victoria
3121

Phone
(03) 9428 1180
Open Hours

Thursday: 5pm to 10pm
Friday: 5pm to 11am
Saturday: 1pm to 11pm
Sunday: 1pm to 11pm

No beer lover's visit to Melbourne is complete without an hour or three in the Mountain Goat Brewery enjoying a beer in the shadow of the tanks in which they are brewed. Now well into its third decade producing some of Australia's finest tipples, the operation launched by mates Cam and Dave is a true trailblazer of the craft beer revolution.

At a time when microbreweries had almost disappeared from the Australian landscape, they began a guerilla fightback against the mundanity of commercial beers. On a trip to North America, Cam was inspired by the local micro scene, sent home brewing pal Dave a postcard saying: "Let's open a brewery" and, on his return, they did. Dave's ever-expanding homebrew setup spilled into his backyard, they began holding Friday night BBQs, word got out and a Melbourne legend was born.

Today, Mountain Goat's spiritual home is found in a large warehouse in Richmond, although it's evolved a fair bit too, with Cam and Dave deciding to sell to Asahi in 2015 after building a business that had started sending its distinctive goat head taps across Australia and helped establish Melbourne as Australia's craft beer capital while collaborating with brewers here and abroad.

Were you to call into the Richmond brewery, now open to the public more than ever before, you'd be hard-pressed to tell anything has changed. Sure, Cam and Dave have moved on, but, aside from squeezing in ever more tanks and other gear, the focus remains on brewing cracking beers, while there's a few familiar faces still brewing the beers too.

The team there has the freedom to knock out big IPAs, barrel-aged beers and, well, pretty much whatever takes their fancy, as production of the bigger volume beers – the likes of Steam Ale, Fancy Pants and a lager introduced in 2019 – has been handled at Asahi's Laverton plant for years.

It's a freedom the brewers have been grabbing with both hands. In Goat's 18th year, they celebrated winning Champion Australian Beer at the 2015 Australian International Beer Awards for their biggest ever beer at that point, a Lark Barrel-Aged Barleywine, just a few months before announcing the sale. Since then, the trophies have kept on coming, for IPAs, their Pale Ale and, in 2018, the big one: Champion Large Australian Brewery.

They continue to support community events, with a particular focus on music, which was a passion for both the brewery's founders, have installed a still, opened a brewpub in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and sit somewhat as a figurehead in a Melbourne scene that's a far cry from the day the first Hightail was released in 1997 and which wouldn't be where it is without Goat.

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Core Range

Mountain Goat Hazy Apple Cider
Apple Cider
5.0%
Mountain Goat Ginger Beer
Ginger Beer
4.0%
Mountain Goat IPA (2020 Onwards)
American IPA
6.5%
Mountain Goat Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
5.2%
Mountain Goat Fancy Pants
Amber Ale
5.2%
Organic Steam Ale
Steam Beer
4.5%
Mountain Goat Summer Ale
Summer Ale
4.7%
Mountain Goat GOAT Very Enjoyable Beer
Lager
4.2%
Mountain Goat Billy The Mid
Mid-Strength Pale Ale
3.5%

Limited Releases

Mountain Goat XL Extra Lager (2023)
Hoppy Lager
4.9%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Lucille Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Raspberry
9.5%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Hightail XXV
Barrel-Aged Dark Ale
10.2%
Mountain Goat Cold IPA
Cold IPA
6.2%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Cherry Sour & NEIPA
Barrel-Aged Cherry Sour & NEIPA
6.0% & 6.2%
Mountain Goat Hog's Head
Barrel-aged Imperial Stout
11.5%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Citra & Strata Triple IPAs
Triple IPAs
Both 9.5%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Botanical IPA
IPA with Botanicals
6.8%
Mountain Goat XL Extra Lager
Hoppy Lager
4.9%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Barrel-Aged Blended Porter
Rum Barrel-Aged Porter
9.0%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Pineapple & Coconut Berliner Weisse & P.O.G. IPA
Fruited Berliner Weisse & Fruit IPA
6.5% & 7.0%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Swamp Thang Dank DIPA
Double IPA
8.7%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Fox Chaser
Spiced Farmhouse Red Ale
6.5%
Mountain Goat & Garage Project Horn Please
Spiced Imperial Milk Stout
8.7%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed: Hello Humanoid Double IPA
Double IPA
7.5%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed: Christmas Ale 2018
Barrel Aged Wheatwine
11.1%
Mountain Goat North Street Gose
Spiced Gose
4.0%
Mountain Goat Legend Of The Goat Double IPA
Double IPA
7.6%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Imperial Stout 2018
Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
9.3%
Mountain Goat In Breed: Westy Kong
Hazelnut Brown Ale
6.4%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Barley Wine 2018
Barrel Aged Barley Wine
11.1%
Mountain Goat North Street IPA
IPA
6.5%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed Lime Crisis
Double IPA with lime
8.2%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed: Christmas Ale 2017
Barrel Aged IIPA
10.4%
Mountain Goat Back To The Brewer Double Steam Ale
Double Steam Ale
7.3%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Imperial Stout 2017
Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
12.5%
Mountain Goat In-Breed Silence of the Rees
Coconut Vanilla Porter
6.3%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed Attack of the Killer Hops
IPA
7.7%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Barley Wine 2017
Barrel Aged Barley Wine
12.0%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Plum Sour
Barrel Aged Plum Sour
2.9%
Mountain Goat Trip Trap Triple IPA
Imperial IPA
10.0%
Mountain Goat Hashtag IPA
Hop Hash IPA
6.8%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed Pulped Fiction
Blood Orange Double IPA
7.8%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Christmas Ale 2016
Barrel Aged Belgian Golden Ale
9.6%
Mountain Goat The Alphonse India Amber Ale
India Amber Ale
7.0%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Barley Wine 2016
Barrel Aged Barley Wine
11.3%
Mountain Goat The Zymurgist IPA
IPA
7.5%
Mountain Goat Rare Breed Japanese Cowboy
American IPA
7.0%
Mountain Goat In Breed: Alana Banana
Hefeweizen
5.4%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed: Christmas Ale 2015
Barrel Aged Belgian Quad
10.0%
Mountain Goat In Breed: The Naz
Scotch Ale
6.5%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Imperial Stout
Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
12.1%
Mountain Goat & Seven Seeds Seedy Goat Coffee Porter
Coffee Porter
6.2%
Mountain Goat Barrel Breed Barley Wine
Barrel Aged Barley Wine
12.9%
Mountain Goat Surefoot Stout (Cans)
Stout
5.0%
Mountain Goat Imperial Pilsner AKA Storm Trooper
Imperial Pilsner
7.6%
Mountain Goat Westy's Brown Twins Tribute Ale
American Brown Ale
5.3%
Mountain Goat North St Pale Ale
American Pale Ale
5.7%
Mountain Goat Yuzu Saison
Fruit Saison
6.4%
Mountain Goat The Delmont
West Coast IPA
7.0%
Mountain Goat Smoke 'n' Mike
Smoky Lager
6.1%
Mountain Goat In Breed The Bogan
Dark Lager
5.3%
Mountain Goat Surefoot Stout 2014
Stout
4.9%
Mountain Goat India Red Ale
India Red Ale
6.6%
Mountain Goat India Red Ale
India Red Ale
6.6%
Mountain Goat RIPA 2013
Rye IPA
6.1%
Mountain Goat IRA (India Red Ale)
India Red Ale
6.4%
Mountain Goat Naz #2
Mocha Porter
5.1%
The Village Goat
Australian Brown Ale
Mountain Goat / Brooklyn Brewery Hopfweizenbock
Hoppy Weizenbock
6.5%
Mountain Goat / Henry Wagons PB & J
Nut and Lolly Ale
4.8%
Mountain Goat / Mick Thomas Eastern Brown
Spiced English Brown Ale
4.8%
Mountain Goat FX Stout
Foreign Extra Stout
6.7%
Mountain Goat The Craig 2013
ESB
5.8%
Mountain Goat Fancy Pants 2013
Amber Ale
5.2%
Mountain Goat Little Sister
Belgian Golden Ale
4.3%
Mountain Goat Rapunzel 2012
Belgian Strong Golden Ale
8.3%
Mountain Goat Triple Hightail
Strong Scotch Ale
8.3%
Mountain Goat Fancy Pants 2012
American Amber Ale
5.5%
Mountain Goat Before The Dawn IPA
Black IPA
7.4%
Mountain Goat The Naz
Mocha Porter
5.2%
Mountain Goat Seedy Goat 2012
Coffee IPA
6.2%
Mountain Goat Hip Hip Hooray IPA
Double IPA
7.4%
Mountain Goat Black Pepperberry IPA
Black IPA
7.3%
Mountain Goat Saison
Saison
5.2%
Mountain Goat Return of The Craig
Irish Red Ale
5.1%
Mountain Goat The Hoeff
Hefeweizen
5.3%
Mountain Goat Goldilocks (2012)
Golden Ale
5.0%
Mountain Goat Imperial Pilsner (2011)
Imperial Pilsner
7.5%
Mountain Goat Skipping Girl (Andy'd Remix)
Summer Ale
4.7%
Mountain Goat Helles To The Yeah
Helles Bock
6.3%
Mountain Goat RIPA (2011)
Rye IPA
5.8%
Mountain Goat DIPA (2011)
Double IPA
8.8%
Mountain Goat Bigfoot (2011)
Imperial Stout
8.0%
Mountain Goat Coffee IPA
Coffee IPA
Mt Goat Rare Breed IPA (Winter 2011)
American IPA
6.3%
Mt Goat Surefoot Stout 2011
Sweet Stout
4.9%
Mountain Goat Winter Oaky Porter
Oaked Porter
5.2%
Mountain Goat Oak-Aged Rapunzel

Mountain Goat Three Golden Goats
Golden Ale
4.9%
Mountain Goat Fancy Pants (2011)
Amber Ale
4.9%
The Thorny Goat
Black IPA
6.8%
Mountain Goat The Craig
US Pale Ale
4.4%
Mountain Goat Skipping Girl
Summer Ale
4.7%
Mountain Goat's The Hoeff
Hefeweizen
5.0%
Mountain Goat IPA (Summer 2010)
IPA
5.7%
Mountain Goat Goldilocks
Summer Ale
5% (TBC)
Mountain Goat RIPA
Rye IPA
5.7%
Mt Goat Bubble and Squeak
Hybrid!
5.3%
Mountain Goat Imperial Pilsner
Imperial Pilsner
7.5%
Mountain Goat Double Hightail (bottled)
Imperial Amber Ale
7.2%
Mountain Goat IPA
American India Pale Ale
5.7%
Double Hightail
Imperial Amber Ale
7%
Fancy Pants
Amber Ale
4.9%
Two Champs Kolsch
Kolsch
5%
Richard III
Doppelbock
7.4%
Double IPA (DIPA)
Double IPA
8.3%
Hightail Ale
Amber Ale
4.5%
Mountain Goat IPA – Bottles discontinued
IPA
6.2%