Space Goat Dry Hopped Oat Pale Ale
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

Reviewed from old notes. Pint at Moxies.

Pours a medium amber with one finger of off white head that leaves some pretty sheet music lace as it recedes.

Smells of baked biscuits, mixed citrus and tropical fruit, flinty water, melon and pine.

Tastes of more biscuity caramel malt, indistinct tropical fruit, melon slices and dank piney hops.

Feels nice and even. Medium bodied with fuzzy carbonation. Finishes off dry.

Verdict: Recommended. A pretty good fruit salad pale ale.

Appearance is a hazy dark yellow with some honey brown highlights to it, pours with a finger and a half of fine, foamy white head with a great retention to it that leaves nice curtains of lacing on the sides of the glass.

Lots of orange aroma to it with notes of zesty peel and light hints of juice.

Medium bodied with a nice, smooth, almost creamy mouthfeel to it with a slightly above average amount of carbonation to it, and a faintly dry or maybe chalky rolled oat malt base.

Hops kick in quickly but are more present on the back end with a load of orange zest and pith with some faintly tropical hints to it, leaving a very faint bittersweet aftertaste of aspirin and aspartame and a slight creaminess like the liquid in the bottom of a bowl of porridge, but porridge that was made with water not milk.

 

 

Hazy gold; grass + must; oatcake then lemon, grass + slight funk.

4 4 4 4 4

All dry hopped grassiness, no tropical. Harsh but sessionable, despite the 6.2%. OK, but for Phillips, that’s disappointing.

 

 

 

 

This is a dandy pale ale - in line with my personal favorite, Troubled Monk Pesky Pig. Light in colour, rich in flavour. The tropical citrus hops combine nicely with the oats and malt. My only issue with this beer is the label's depiction of a Bighorn Sheep. I don't think he would want to be confused with a goat. Just sayin'.

 

Phillips Brewing 'Space Goat Oat Pale Ale' @ 6.2% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a small white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-dry hopped oats
T-at times tart , easy drinking dry hopped oat pale ale
MF-decent carbonation , big medium body
Ov-ok beer & pale ale
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650ml bottle - it seems that the random (if slightly amusing) name here was chosen simply because it rhymes with the guest grain.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with a near teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent disintegrating ice shelf lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, a further breakfast paste oaten character, some candied tropical fruit - melony, mostly - a twinge of earthy yeast, and more plain dirty, leafy, and weedy hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, a hint of caramel sweetness, dry oats, Juicy Fruit-like tropical fruity notes, and some additional leafy, weedy, and gently floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly thorough in its well-rounded and strangely challenging frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and actually quite smooth, thanks, I would imagine, to the base of the titular rhyming pair. It finishes off-dry, that weirdly sugary fruitiness of the hops really starting to outstay its welcome.

Overall, the complex and lengthy name here is mirrored by the contents inside - a standard pale ale, dosed with multi-tasking oats, and hopped with some variant of sexy new-age tropical ester-heavy hops. Not bad, in the end, but I'd imagine that it would take downing a number of rounds of these before the picture on the label really made any freaking sense.