Mountain Goat Beer
Mountain Goat was founded in 1997 in Melbourne by Cam Hines and Dave Bonighton, two homebrewing friends who began by renting capacity at other breweries in Geelong and Mirboo North. The first commercial release, Hightail Ale, appeared in October 1997. The brewery moved into its own premises in Richmond in 1999 and into the North Street warehouse it still occupies in 2004. Asahi bought the company in 2015; core-range volume is brewed in Laverton, while Richmond handles small batches and barrel work.
Beers by Mountain Goat Beer
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Mountain Goat Beer brew across 5 style families.
Across these 11 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Mountain Goat Beer
Mountain Goat was founded in 1997 in Melbourne by Cam Hines and Dave Bonighton, two homebrewing friends who began by renting capacity at other breweries in Geelong and Mirboo North. The first commercial release, Hightail Ale, appeared in October 1997. The brewery moved into its own premises in Richmond in 1999 and into the North Street warehouse it still occupies in 2004. Asahi bought the company in 2015; core-range volume is brewed in Laverton, while Richmond handles small batches and barrel work.
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