Review:Mountain Goat Brewery,Chill On & Hungry Jacks

After a week of hellish teaching rounds we went out for a few drinks.We decided to start the night in Richmond at the Mountain Goat Bar.

Mountain Goat
Mountain Goat Bar is not a bar per se, just a bunch of picnic tables, arm chairs, a stereo, and a fooseball table thrown together inside the Mountain Goat Brewery. Still, its a pretty wicked place to grab a drink, if you can get there.

The space itself isnt particularly hard to find. The problem lies in convincing your cab driver that your not trying to mugg him when he drives you to the "bar" at the corner of North & Clark st. Ours was honestly pretty reluctant to pull over as the whole area is pretty much run down industrial buildings. Convenient place to dump a body but we thought we pay the fair instead.

The bar doesnt have a sign so dont look for one. There is however a mountain goat head painted on the steel enterance door and possibly a few smokers hudled around outside.

The space pretty cavernous and a little chilly at first. The staff though try their best to keep it warm with a wack of heat lamps scattered around and after a few pints it gets pretty damn comfortable.

The beer is good and pretty cheap. Three or four different ales, a good stout and a few one off batches on tap. Theres also a few bottles of wine floating around for those who forgot they came to a brewery. In addition to a great beer, Mountain Goat supposedly serve super good pizza which you can smell through the entire space. Me and a buddy of mine debate weather or not to get one. Having eatten before I left the house I reluctantly decide to skip it.

The bar area of the brewery is only open on Wednesay's and Thursday's from 5 til about 11:30. Rachel Defender of Justice meets us after work at 10 and about 10:30 we all bail and head into the CDB.

Chill On
We meet up with a group of kids from Deakin at Chill On, an Ice Bar.

Ice is not a drink.Ice is not a food.In this case Ice is litteraly ICE. After each paying a thirty dollar cover, we head inside and upstairs to the "ski lounge", the clubs waiting room.
After complaining about the recent cold spell in Melbourne and enjoying a few two for one drink specials we head down to the Ice bar.

Before we entered the Ice bar the staff handed us all coats and gloves. A Newzelander working their irronically warns Rachel & I, our Norwegian friends and about 5 Canadians that its very cold inside (Minus 4). In fairness, the bar is pretty cold and leaves Rach and I wondering why the hell a group of Canadians and Norwegians paid money to stand inside a freezer in Australia. A half our later and were back outside in the warm(er) Melbourne air laughing at ourselves. Off to grab a burger.

Hungry Jacks (AKA Burger King)
Chicken sandwich and fries. Should have got a pizza at the brewery.

-Kurtis