Mountain Goat Hightail Ale

Bottle conditioned English style ’real ale’. Burnt amber in color, it has a rich malt body and floral hop aroma. A batch was brewed in the Hook Norton brewery, UK, in 2015 to be sold from the cask at the UK pub chain, J D Wetherspoon for their Spring 2015 beer festival: "Dave Edney has travelled to Hook Norton Brewery, in Oxfordshire, to brew this beer especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. This amber-coloured beer has a moderately malty body, with hints of toffee and roastiness, complemented by a well-balanced bitterness, fruity, citrus notes and a pleasing, dry finish. Hops used: Cascade (UK), Challenger Beer style: best bitter"

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236 reviews

Richmond, Australia

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3.1 Cask at playfair. Pours clear amber, nose is toffee, floral, taste is dry, chewy toffee, sweet.

3.2 JDW, Salisbury. Decent best bitter. Good malty flavour. Sweetness balanced by in depth bittering hops.

3.0 Cask, The William Wygston, Wigston. Golden with a firm off white foam. Aromas are copper with a firm cream foam. Aromas are raisins with toffee and creamy oak. Woody with earthy apple skin and bready yeast. Flavours are sweet toffee with raisins and mellow lemon and dry tea. Earthy with a pithy finish and a cabbage burp.

2.8 Cask at Alexander Graham Bell (JDW). Dark amber coloured. Aroma is malty with berries. Flavour is malts, a bit of berries, fryits and caramel. Quite thin anf mostly malts taste.

3.4 Cask union rooms batley. Ruby ok head. Aroma is caramel red fruits taste is same good malty backbone nice hoppy bitters. Medium body. Decent stuff.

2.8 Cask handpull Westgate jdw Canterbury. Dark brown colour not much condition. It’s malty and not much else. Bit dull. Ok

2.6 Cask at the Railway Putney. Dark brown, still, clear, small ring of off-white head. Aroma is light, starchy, pungent, slightly farty, just a touch of sulphur. Body is medium to light, smooth, low carbonation. Taste is light, watery, some cheesey hop, dry, vegetal, potato starch, finishes dry.

3.2 Cask@the avion, aldridge. Dark amber beer with residual head. Aroma of malts and light toffee. Taste is malts, roasted malts and toffee. Ok beer.

3.1 Bottle. Clear amber brown beer with a small head. Aroma is malty with notes of smoked malts, caramel, burnt sugar and herbs. Flavor is malty with notes of burnt sugar, caramel, smoked malt and herbs. Well balanced but a bit thin.

2.9 Kolor - rdzawy, mętny. Piana - drobna, wysoka i trwała. Zapach - słodko-owocowy + nutka winna. Smak - lekko winne, lekko owocowe, średnia słodycz, lekka goryczka. Poprawne.

2.7 As it says toffee tones. Light on the hops well balanced finish all in all a great beer

3.1 Nice colour, nice aroma but taste a little thinner than one would expect. But brown English bitter colour with quick disappearing white head. Malty, nutty aroma and initial taste has nice bitterness. But this soon disappears leaving rather bland taste. Quite high carbonation. Not sure what this is trying to achieve: this is like an English pale ale but with too much carbonation and rather artificial hoppiness.

3.3 Bottle in Melbourne Clear amber, white head Soma caramel, malts and nothing more Quite drinkable, but nothing special

3.3 Pours a dark copper with no head with minimal carbonation. On the nose it has massive hints of toffee which seems to disappear as the beer gets closer to room temperature. As mentioned it appears almost flat like most traditional English ales with a fairly low bodied mouthful. Taste wise it's a fairly nice amber ale. You get your sweeter toffee notes at the start with almost a barbecue/smokey bacon on the finish. Not bad at all. Would be more my style if it had a bit of a fizz factor to it tho!

2.6 Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Ariel. Pours clear brown with a nice beige head, aroma of hops, caramel, malt and fruits, flavor is bitter with fruits and caramel, medium bodied.

3.0 Some hop aroma initially but not much flavour. unexciting amber ale. their fancy pants amber ale is far superior.

3.2 At a tasting, thanks Ariel, clear very deepred colour, aroma of plums and biscuit with some caramel and a hint of barnyard, strong barnyard aroma with some caramel, light sourness and bitterness. Nice.

3.5 Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Ariel. Clear dark amber-brown with white ring. Nice grainy and toasted aroma, a little sweet, malty taste. Light-bodied, soft carbonation, bitter with long finish.

3.0 Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks Ariel. Clear amber with a small head. Aroma of caramel malts, a bit stale. Sweetish with caramel, honey and light roast, low bitterness. Medium-bodied, sticky on palate. OK

2.9 Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Ariel. Clear deep reddish amber. Aroma of stale-ish malt, caramel, some toastiness and a bit of fruitiness. Sweetish flavor with malt, a bit stale-ish, with toastiness, a bit of caramel, mild fruitiness and a bitterish finish with light hops. Medium-bodied.

2.1 Tap. Cloudy, amber, frothy, tan foam, medium bitterness, light sweetness, medium body, oily feel, soft carbonation, & bitter finish.

3.0 Got a reasonable malt and slight passionfruit aroma, pours dark short lasting creamy head, some dark ale qualities but quite mild, low alcohol vol @ 4.5%, finishes short, need to drink it faster to maintain its pleasureable qualities as a result. a bit lightweight but smooth and nice enough.

2.7 Smell of malt. Bronze colour, beige head. Aroma of malt, rubber, sugar. Medium sweet. Oily texture, flatmcarbon.

3.9 Malty aroma. Dark brown golden colour with good head. Malty up front with a nice smooth finish. Light to medium body with medium to high carbonation.

3.4 Bought in a bottle. Can't comment on head because of a crap glass. Colour is golden toffee. Nice aroma. Easy to drink. No real aftertaste.

3.5 Bottle. Pours a deep Amber Colour Aroma. Malty aroma with hints of sweet citrus. Taste. a nice malty taste, backed by bitter grapefruit and a very slight burnt taste.

3.1 Bottle 33 cl from Citymarket Turtola @home. Pius clear dark copper with a small white head. Malty, bread aroma, some hay. Some hop bitterness, sweetness, some fruits.

3.2 Kaatuu lasiin mahonginruskeana ja kirkkaana, tiivis vaahto on noin 2,5 sormen paksuinen ja hyvin pumpulinen. Hennossa hajussa on vahvimmin karamellia ja havuista sekä puumaista humalaa. Heikosti on myös leipäisyyttä ja sitrusta. Maussa vahvimpana on karamellinen mallas, mutta muuten tämä on aika ontto. Puumaista humalaa ja lievästi maamaisuuttakin on joukossa. Suutuntuma on alkuun jopa vetinen, mutta sitten humalointi iskee sopivasti kiristyen suuhun saaden aikaan miellyttävän pureskeltavuuden. Kevyt amber ale, jossa karamelli pääosassa lievän puumaisen humaloinnin avittamana. Mietous jää vaivaamaan.

3.3 Poured copper-red with small white head that diminished (mother-in-law mispoured it). Aroma malts, dark fruit earthiness, followed by citrus of hops. Taste wonderful mouthful of malts, touch of brown sugar, following through to to soft dry bitterness. Soft carbonation, moderate body and finish. I like!

2.9 330 ml bottle. Pours a copper colour with a white head. Aroma of toasted malts, grass and bread. Flavour of toasted malts, grass, bread, some grapefruit and gooseberries. Light bodied, a bit rough mouthfeel and a harsh, grainy, bitter finish. Decent.