The best beers are always those that are released as a limited release and are so popular they end up becoming part of the core range. Mountain Goat's IPA began life as North Street IPA, so named for the street the brewery is located on as well as a nod to the "". The North Street IPA proved so popular as a cellar door limited release it earned itself a wider bottled release. It also won gold at the 2018 Australia International Beer Awards (AIBA).

Mountain Goat was one of the first Australian craft breweries to put their beer into cans. Whilst cans are par for the course these days there were lots of negative connotations associated with canned beer back when Mountain Goat first started canning their beers. 

Brewer's Notes: Our brewers love a classic IPA, and you can’t get more classic than this one. For our IPA we drew on twenty years of brewing, two consecutive AIBA Champion IPAs, a couple of trial brews, and more than a few "tasting panels" along the way. Resinous and citrusy, this is a bold, American-style IPA that was made for hopheads everywhere. West-Coast IPA with resinous pine and tropical notes, and a bold bitterness to finish.Simcoe, Idaho 7 and Mosaic.
Style: American IPA
ABV: 6.5%
IBU: 70

Appearance
Gold with a reddish tinge.

Aroma
Resinous pine and citrus peel.

Flavour
Hop-driven with a bold bitterness and a dry finish. pine, pineapple and citrus, caramel and rich, biscuity malts