Hightail Ale
Mountain Goat Beer in Richmond, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.06
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bhensonb (22605) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from BevMo in Vacaville, CA. Pours very dark amber, almost brown, with a slight, transient beige head. Fresh evergreen aroma, a bit floral, and a hint of caramel. Med body. Flavor is quite floral, a bit pine, and finally some significant malt shows up. This is very flavorful. Probably a bit more so than many English versions. I’m thinking this approaches Fuller’s 1845. Approaches.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home tasting ... copper brown ... thin lacing ... soft toffee malts ... light over fizzy ... small ovaltine malts ... juicy fruits
SimonF (3322) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Hazy coppery amber, no head. Pleasant floral notes over a mildly toffee aroma. Medium body, well carbonated. Flavour starts with fruit and toffeeish maltiness and has a nice gentle bitter finish. Overall a fine beer.
DreamAudit (3889) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 330ml bottle on 11/4/2010. Has a moderate roasted malt nose, with the roasted, toasty malt flavours dominating when it hits the mouth. Has a touch of dried fruit (raisins) to it, a fair whack of bitterness at the end. A decent beer, but just doesn’t quite come together to really satisfy.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
[10/09] After tasting their odd Steam Ale, tried in the new packaging to see whether they’d footled with it. No. Caramel in colour. Small beige head. Flowers and pears on the nose, maybe some grapefruit too. Round malt with a nice herbaceous balance from the hops. Medium to full body (for the style). Moderately astringent finish. Doesn’t taste much like an English pale ale, except in the way it tastes somehow alive. A lovely original beer. [4/12] Probably wouldn’t rate this so high now, but so familiar it’s grandfathered. [9/14] Tap at the Healesville Hotel, bottle a couple of days later. Noticeably better on tap these days. Still an excellent pint. Bottle is OK but duller with less punchy citrus. [3.7][3/17] Bottle. Holy hell. This is crap. This beer was as much about texture and life as flavour. Now it’s dead-eyed caramel-flavoured lolly water. The hops are still OKish but this is a shambling zombified mockery of the beer it once was. Leaving the score for the beer it; this would be a 2.7. Drank this a lot in the late 90s and returned to it every now and then - admittedly more on tap than in bottle. Makes me sadder than I’d have guessed. Damn
Davros (5279) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Dark amber pour with a small off-white head.Fruity citrus aroma, some grassy notes. Wholemeal bread malt with some toasty notes.Bold toasty malt flavour, with some green hoppyness and quite a pronounced hoppy bitterness (slightly over the top?).Good creamy carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Prefer this out of a tap. Pleasant caramel finish with hoppy nose. Lovely autumn beer as low on fizz.
omhper (44752) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at AIBA, Melbourne. Hazy amber. Hoppy peach and grapefruit aroma. Dryish with rounded mouthfeel and medium, body. Grassy, fairly bitter finish. Pretty good stuff.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Hightail Ale from Mountain Goat Beer 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Slightly hazy copper colour with an orange tint and a very small white head. Aroma of grapefruit, citrus, pine and STRONG hops. Medium-bodied; Sweet initial flavour with some light qualities, next showing hops-all ending in an unfinished wortiness. Overall, a nice beer-better than the macros i’ve been drinking ’down under’. I sampled this 12 ounce bottle purchased from a bottle shop in St. Kilda (Melbourne), Australia.