{"id":892,"date":"2010-10-01T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-06-19T03:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:31:21","slug":"mountain-goat-hightail-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/01\/mountain-goat-hightail-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Goat &#8216;Hightail&#8217; Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-893\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[892]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"893\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/01\/mountain-goat-hightail-ale\/mountain-goat-hightail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mountain Goat &amp;#8216;Hightail&amp;#8217; Ale (Malthouse, 1 October 2010)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mountain Goat &amp;#8216;Hightail&amp;#8217; Ale&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-893\" title=\"Mountain Goat 'Hightail' Ale (Malthouse, 1 October 2010)\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Goat 'Hightail' Ale\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mountain-Goat-Hightail.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mountain Goat &#39;Hightail&#39; Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New World supermarkets in Wellington are surprisingly-good places to find some seriously out-of-the-way beers. Amanda, one of our bartenders at work, was at their Thorndon store, found this, and generously split it with me. I was pretty damn chuffed; my particular fondness for good Australian beer is pretty well-known at work, and we had this one in particular as a random guest after the beer festival last year. It&#8217;s just uncomplicatedly delightful; rich and malty and balanced and plain yum.<\/p>\n<p>As I promised myself in my notes, I did indeed bike there the next day, and came home with a backpack heavy with goodies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flying Dog &#8216;Raging Bitch&#8217; Belgian IPA<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Diary II entry #47: Dogfish Head 'Midas Touch'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/27\/dogfish-head-midas-touch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dogfish Head &#8216;Midas Touch&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Diary II entry #64: BrewDog '5am Saint'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/02\/23\/brewdog-%E2%80%985am-saint%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">BrewDog \u20185am Saint&#8217; Amber Ale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Diary II entry #51: BrewDog 'Rip Tide'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/31\/brewdog-rip-tide-imperial-stout\/\" target=\"_blank\">BrewDog &#8216;Rip Tide&#8217; Stout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Diary II entry #44: BrewDog 'Paradox: Isle of Arran'\" href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/25\/brewdog-paradox-isle-of-arran\/\" target=\"_blank\">BrewDog &#8216;Paradox: Isle of Arran&#8217; Barrel-aged Stout<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mountain Goat Steam Ale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the preponderance of heavy-hitters in there, it was pushing fifty bucks for the set. When I was putting them into a &#8216;Philbert&#8217;s Stash&#8217; box in the fridge, Peter and I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that all of those breweries were named after animals &#8212; and that there was a distinctly canine trend among them. I guess there&#8217;s something totemistic about animal names, and they do make for easy logos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-894\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-2020-Mountain-Goat-Hightail.png\" rel=\"lightbox[892]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"894\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/01\/mountain-goat-hightail-ale\/diary-2020-mountain-goat-hightail\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-2020-Mountain-Goat-Hightail.png\" data-orig-size=\"600,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Diary II entry #20, Mountain Goat &amp;#8216;Hightail&amp;#8217; Ale\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Diary II entry #20, Mountain Goat &amp;#8216;Hightail&amp;#8217; Ale&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-2020-Mountain-Goat-Hightail.png\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-894\" title=\"Diary II entry #20, Mountain Goat 'Hightail' Ale\" src=\"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-2020-Mountain-Goat-Hightail-150x150.png\" alt=\"Mountain Goat 'Hightail' Ale\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diary II entry #20, Mountain Goat &#39;Hightail&#39; Ale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Verbatim:<\/strong> Mountain Goat &#8216;Hightail&#8217; Ale 1\/10\/10 $? @ NW Thorndon, found by Amanda, who generously split it. 4.5% 330ml. I&#8217;m heading there on me bike tomorrow. MFing MG, man! Just as I remember it. Rich and malty and yum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1: Tragically, I never got to enjoy this one. It was smashed in a unfortunate cascade of bottles in the chiller at work, one night. <a title=\"@phil_cook, on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/phil_cook\/status\/35580508884705280\" target=\"_blank\">Godsdamn gravity<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New World supermarkets in Wellington are surprisingly-good places to find some seriously out-of-the-way beers. Amanda, one of our bartenders at work, was at their Thorndon store, found this, and generously split it with me. I was pretty damn chuffed; my particular fondness for good Australian beer is pretty well-known at work, and we had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/01\/mountain-goat-hightail-ale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mountain Goat &#8216;Hightail&#8217; Ale<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,6,15],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-ale","tag-pages","tag-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17254,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2015\/08\/14\/beervana-2014-podcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":892,"position":0},"title":"Beervana 2014 \u2015 the lost live podcasts","author":"Phil","date":"August 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Just in time for those missing out on\u00a0this year's Beervana, a blast from the past. 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Brown-black. Weird. Seems stuck halfway. Not bad, per se, but not wheat and not dark. Can't see it winning friends. Stick with La Rossa. Afterthoughts, October 2010: Oh, so very far to go until proper Beer Nerdery,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Actual Diary entries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jamieson 'Mountain Ale'","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diary-1012-Jamieson-Mountain-Ale-300x201.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":794,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/18\/cucapa-chupacabras\/","url_meta":{"origin":892,"position":3},"title":"Cucap\u00e1 &#8216;Chupacabras&#8217;","author":"Phil","date":"September 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So, goatsucker. Really. That's what \"Chupacabras\" literally means. Chupar is \"to suck\", and cabra is \"goat\". Strange name for a beer, you might think. Wait; it gets stranger. The Chupacabra is a piece of South American cryptozoology, like an Australian Bunyip, or a North American Bigfoot. But unlike those, this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Actual Diary entries&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Actual Diary entries","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/category\/diary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cucapa 'Chupacabras' Pale Ale","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cucapa-Chupacabras-Pale-Ale-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1405,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2009\/03\/24\/theresianer-pale-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":892,"position":4},"title":"Theresianer Pale Ale","author":"Phil","date":"March 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Another Italian beer, and one I'd had before, with an altogether brilliant dinner at La Casa here in town, a while back. 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