Mountain Goat Hip Hip Hooray IPA

Pretty pumped to visit the crew at Mountain Goat finally at their brewery in Richmond.

It's a pretty industrial sort of space where you're more or less in one half of the brewery shed. The beer's fresh, the pizzas are good and it's a nice space to enjoy a few beers after work. I can't be the only one thinking this either as it's packed even on a Wednesday night. They're currently only open on the Wednesday and Friday I believe but it seems they'd do well to open it further, permits permitting.

To the beer - and first up a single batch IPA produced for someone's birthday if I'm not mistaken. It weighs in at a solid 7.4% and could perhaps be considered a double or imperial at that rate.

I found this to be a serviceable IPA in the 'big n strong' mould, with a great creamy sticky head and a slight barley tea sort of flavour on the finish. Eminently drinkable and accomplished, but not overly special to my palate. 7.5