Brooklyn Brewery/Mountain Goat Brewery Brewmaster’s Reserve Ridgy-Didge Coming In May

ridgy-didge (Australia; colloquial):
1. Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright. [Are you ridgy-didge? Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?]
2. A Tasmanian pepperberry and lemon myrtle flavored saison (8.4% ABV) collaboration between Brooklyn Brewery and Mountain Goat Brewing.

We’d heard of Australia, of course: that it was a land of great surfing, sharks of unfortunate size, Vegemite (?!), and friendly people carrying very large knives. But until a few years ago, no one told us about all the great Australian craft brewing happening, much of it done by our friends at Mountain Goat Beer. They’ve been going strong for 18+ years, and they like to say that "a mountain goat is a big hairy animal that’s never gonna fall over." Clearly our kind of people.

Together with the Goat Crew, we bring you Ridgy-Didge, a strong saison with a distinctly Australian edge. We start the party with malt and a little candy sugar, and then rev it up with two native Australian flavors – startlingly aromatic lemon myrtle leaves and kicky Tasmanian pepperberries. After fermentation by our house Belgian yeast, the final touch is brought by light dry-hopping with the Australian variety Super Pride of Ringwood. The tasty result is a honey-colored beer with a lean, dry, hoppy palate and a bright refreshing lemony finish.

Ridgy-Didge? Lemon myrtle? Tasmanian pepperberry? Super Pride of Ringwood? You can’t make this stuff up, and we wouldn’t dare to try. That’s because we’re Ridgy-Didge too, mates.
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