Podcast ‘sode 26: Cans in Cairns with Dave from Mountain Goat

We spoke to Dave from Mountain Goat. We discussed recent media attention for good beer, the CBIA awards, then spoke about about the goings on at the brewery, learned about their Australian tours, barrel ageing and the challenges of being one of Australia’s pioneers of good beer. We have to apologise for the audio in this one, one of the microphones was having some clipping issues which we fixed up as best we could.

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We drank the Rule 47 from the High Country Brewers. A collaboration between Bridge Road Brewers, Sweetwater Brewery, Bright Brewery and Blackdog Brewery.

You can read about it here:

http://craftypint.com/beer/3192/high-country-brewers-rule-47-collaboration-2014

We discussed this satirical article about VB winning a craft beer festival in Surrey Hills:

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/vb-goes-undercover-to-win-surry-hills-craft-beer-festival/

We also discussed this New Yorker beer cover:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2014-11-03

And this David Chang beer article

http://www.gq.com/life/food/201410/david-chang-cheap-beer

We moved onto the Craft Beer Industry Association’s Craft Beer Awards:

http://www.australiancraftbeer.org.au/craft-beer-awards-2014/

The big winners were Modus Operandi:

http://www.mobrewing.com.au/

Beer Lovers Week in Hobart:

http://www.beerloversweek.com.au/

Luke mentioned the Australian Beer Subreddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/ausbeer

http://www.reddit.com/r/AusHomebrew

We discussed the Mountain Goat Hightail Ale:

http://www.goatbeer.com.au/the-beer/hightail-ale/

And the Mountain Goat Summer Ale:

http://www.goatbeer.com.au/the-beer/summer-ale/

Dave was inspired to brew their Rapunzel by Duvel:

http://www.duvel.com/

We mentioned the Royston:

http://www.roystonhotel.com.au/theroystonhome

Mountain Goat are using these barrels for upcoming beers:

http://www.larkdistillery.com.au/

We were also drinking the Sierra Nevada Pale cans:

http://www.sierranevada.com/beer/year-round/pale-ale

We mentioned the Brooklyn collaborations:

http://brooklynbrewery.com/

And their collaboration with Hitachino Nest, with yuzu:

http://www.kodawari.cc/?en_home/products/hitachino-nest-beer.html

Then he mentioned former brewerys, Jayne from Two Birds, Craig from the Monk, and AG from Mornington Peninsula

http://www.twobirdsbrewing.com.au/

http://www.themonk.com.au/

http://mpbrew.com.au/

Dave (podcast) recommended the Prima Pils from Victory:

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/victory-prima-pils/619/

Dave (Goat) recommended the Latte Jed from Moondog:

http://moondogbrewing.com.au/

Luke recommended the De Ranke beers:

http://www.deranke.be/

Dave (podcast) recommended the Serial Podcast:

http://serialpodcast.org/

Luke recommended the Voodoo Jerk Truck:

http://www.losbarbudos.com.au/voodoojerk/

Dave (Goat) recommended the Butcher’s Block in Clifton Hill:

http://www.butchersblock.ch/

We have also started an Australian Mead blog:

http://australianmead.wordpress.com/

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Mountain Goat and Dave are on twitter:

@goatbeer

@davegoater

Theme music from Toehider:

http://toehider.bandcamp.com/