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Bombers away for Iron Goat

Rick Bonino

 

You’ll soon be able to get your Goat in 22-ounce bottles.

Iron Goat today bottled its first beers – 420 cases of Head Butt IPA and Impaler Imperial IPA – working with Issaquah-based Mobile Bottling Source (formerly Microbeer Source).

“It was pretty hectic, probably because we’re not used to it,” co-owner/brewer Paul Edminster says of the 4½-hour session. “It’s extremely physical, and bottle caps are very sharp.”

Still, he says, “We only broke one bottle. We dropped an empty one – we didn’t waste any beer that way.”

The brewery’s Trashy Blonde and Goatmeal Stout will be bottled during a second run in two weeks. Look for the beers to start showing up in Rosauers and Yoke’s supermarkets and area specialty stores sometime next month.

“There’s something different about seeing your beer on a shelf,” Edminster says.

“The first time I sat down in a taphouse and somebody at the bar asked for a taste of one of our beers, then ordered it, that was pretty cool. But to go in a grocery store and actually see your beer in bottles, that’s kind of a milestone for us.”