Big Sky Scape Goat Pale Ale
Scape Goat is our award-winning Pale Ale. It is a very smooth, refreshing, and well balanced brew. Scape Goat took home the Gold Medal from the 1997 and 1999 North American Brewers’ Association competitions as the best English style Pale Ale brewed west of the Mississippi! Scape Goat is brewed with pale, crystal malts, and Kent Goldings and Crystal Hops.
3.2
494 reviews
Missoula, United States
Community reviews
Citrus, herbs..light pallet. Great taste. Hoppy pale ale. Great color. Good taste.
Aroma is clove, lemon grass, light roasted malts. Taste is very pale malts with a somewhat basic and undesirable hop profile that is slightly funky. Appearance is a pale gold with a thin pearl head that retains fairly well.
12 oz can poured. Had this a few times over the years, never knew I hadn’t rated it. Pours a clear golden color with a lasting head. Love the can by the way. Chained up on all 4. Might be entering another can phase. I love those. Here we have a nice, easy drinking, tasty pale to enjoy regularly after a long day at work. So refreshing. Mild grainy, malt aroma. Flavor matches with an obvious hop presence, that sticks around late into the palate. Gotta love a pale that won a gold medal when I was in early grade school, and it’s still going strong today. I like this stuff.
Nice white head atop a slightly hazy orange/honey brew.... surprising lacing lasted the entire glass.
Smell is something different.... It reminds me of a brewery during a boil... a slightly cooled wort... grainy... sorta heavy pale malts with a significant grassy/earthy hop presence... but the hops are definitely restrained.
Tasting the brewery not so much in the flavor.... but is definitely there in the finish... pale malts (English?)... and a little sweetness is balanced by enough bitterness... but the tail end is short but lingering earthy/piney hops is very much appreciated. Palate is spot on for an APA... sorta creamy/minerally finish.
Can from Copper and Oak. Pours bright golden with a white head of large bubbles. Citrus and spruce on the nose - quite highly carbed, malty/biscuity background that is well balanced with piney hops. Solid APA - have had worse, good price for Australia too.
Pours gold with a white head.
Nose shows sweet clean malt and piny, resinous hops.
Similar flavours, some bready note though. Reasonable hop bitterness.
Run of the mill APA, very faint hoppy aroma, taste is initial hops, then nothing. Body borders on watery. Might be a good gateway beer for a lager drinker.
grass, golden, hazy, white foam, light sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, average carbonation, bitter,
Pours a clear amber, not much carbonation, one finger head with good lacing. Taste starts with citrus (lemon) and floral mixed with caramel. Bitterness linger at the end, but it doesn’t layer your tongue, enjoyable.
Wasn’t really impressed with this. Some dank aromas and flavors. I found this to be watery though. Very average stuff.
Orange body. Slight hops in the aroma and taste but overall pretty bland. Okay only
330mL can. Pours clear copper with a big white head. Caramel and spice in the aroma, this is also present in the flavour with a tangy citrus fruityness and a biscuit like malt structure.
Can to half-pint glass (thanks Ferris). Looks solid; a lightly hazy bitter orange with foamy cream head. Smells of bitter and citrus hops with a fairly malty bittersweet backbone. Tastes like it smells with a medium-bodied mouthfeel. Not bad, a bit sticky and malty though.
Rating #1093 - May 20, 2014 - Can from CBI - Goldenpour with a creamy white head that bubbles away quickly. hops are very fragrant with mild citrus in the aroma. Mouthfeel is creamy, medium carbonation, and bitter hops on the finish - but not overpowering, very balanced. Delicious.
Petite canette bue dans mon camp de chasse. Liquide blond avec une mousse chancelante. Nez et bouche marqués par le caramel et par des houblons résineux, fruités et floraux. La bouche est légère avec ses bulles vives. L’arrière-goût est légèrement amère avec la présence de notes d’agrumes et de fleurs. Agréable. Facile à boire.
From a can. Pours cloudy orange, mild hoppy aroma, medium body with a mild hoppy aftertaste. It’s very drinkable.
"a little hoppier, but even lighter in body and flavor than the powder hound. not for me...left me wanting more. moose drool is the only beer i’ve had from them (so far) that i’d buy again."
Transfer from BA review on 4-30-14-
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden color with a one finger head of fizzy white foam. The head fades super-fast leaving only a trace bit of fizzy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is very light overall with just a light level of caramel sweetness and a little bit of a bready and grainy smell. Along with these is a very light grassy smells as well.
Taste – The taste begins with a rather crisp and bready flavor with a good level of graininess right upfront. Along with these flavors are some flavors of a very light caramel and light fruit flavor of apricot and peach. The fruit flavors grow in flavor as the taste advances sweetening the brew as the taste moves on. Along with the sweeter fruit flavors some light grassy tastes to leave a clean and moderately crisp flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the thinner side with a carbonation level that is on the average side. A slightly higher carbonation level may have been slightly better for creating a greater level of crispness, but even with that side the feel was rather nice for the style and still made for a rather refreshing brew.
Overall – A very easy drinking pale ale, a good one to sip leisurely.
From 12 oz can. Pours a clear golden amber with a thin but lasting white head and lively carbonation. Aromas of tropical fruit (papaya, melon), crusty white bread and a bit of lime. Taste is fresh fruit at the front end before a prickly zesty bitterness washes across the palate. Quite a clean finish with a light fruity aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Draft at Old Post. Clear golden amber color. Nice arona if muxed citrus and pine. Taste is bitter pine resin, nice malt backbone to balance.
Poured a translucent amber colour with a one- to two-finger white frothy head that retained OK and laced OK. Carbonation medium and coarse. Aroma subtle and of caramel and floral hops. Taste initially sweet caramel malt followed by a mild and nice citrus hops bitterness. Light body. Smooth with a subtle lingering citrus bitterness. OK.
Can to goblet
Lots of spruce, lemon, grapefruit, and a little funk. Clear light amber with a ringed white head. Spruce, wheat, lemon. Drinkable, but average.
Can - Sweet caramel and piny resin. Clear gold with a decent white head. Caramel. Pine and resin with some nice pale malt sweetness. Decent.
Can from mane liquor. Pours light orange with small white head. Nose is light tropical fruit, citrus and biscuit. Not a strong nose but nice enough. Taste is quite tame. Biscuity with light citrus. Standard
A well balanced and very pleasing fresh crisp pale ale. Just the tonic for our Australian climate.
A great attribute is that it is not one of these OTT hoppy US ales that have flooded the market down here in recent times. This is far more sensible and appealing pale ale that would and does appeal to the larger market.
I have passed a few around to my mates and all have thoroughly enjoyed it which is a pretty hard task with most them.
My beer for the summer!
Pours clear golden with a foamy white head. Light stonefruit and floral aromas. Some citrus and honey. Very light bodied. Some.biscuit and toffee, well balanced. Low carbonation and very sessionable, but nothing really going for it over other pales
Can from Brewhouse Brisbane. Nice little pale ale with a strong honey golden colour. Smooth in the mouth.
Can from Mane Liquor. Pours clear golden with a small white cap which quickly disappears. Nose is light citrus and biscuit. Taste is pretty straight forward biscuit and citrus with moderate toffee backing it. Nothing crazy but not too bad
Can. Pale amber with a largish white head. Rather weak but pleasant aroma with caramel, spices, some floral notes. Lowish carbonation, rather watery. Bland carmale sweetness, faint spices, modest bitterness. A bit insipid.
Pours a clear amber colour with an average dull white head that becomes a bit thin after a few minutes but leaves a few spots of lace on the glass. Aroma is citrus, grass, and light grainy sweetness. Flavour is citrus, grass, mild bitterness, and sweet caramel maltiness.