Mountain Goat India Pale Ale
Appearance - 3.0 Poured two fingers of foamy white head with lots of suspended sediment in the cloudy amber-beige body. Smell - 3.0 Quite a soft aroma, sweetish with an apple juice like fruitiness and not much in the way of malt. Taste - 2.0 This is a beer that to me suffers from the "Coopers Syndrome" of having far too much yeast. Crisp with bready pale malt, red apple and moderate bitterness. The yeastiness is if anything, stronger than the hop bitterness, which is completely wrong for an IPA, and gives a detergent-like taste and astringency. Mouthfeel - 3.0 Possibly a little over-fizzy. Drinkability - 1.5 The more I have of this beer, the less I want to take another sip. OVERALL - 2.45 After the very competent Hightail Ale, this beer is a great disappointment. It is sad to see another Australian ale spoiled by an overly yeasty character. I'm not sure if Aussie micro brewers do it to make their beers more "Coopers-like", but I sure as hell don't like it.