Goat Island Brewing
Cullman, Alabama, USA · Est. 2015
Tally's Take
Why this matters
Alabama Pass 17. Cullman County. Founder: Mike Mullaney; Gery Teichmiller; John Dean; Brad Glenn. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Established in early 2015 after the four founders' Blue Moose Brew Crew/homebrewing collaboration grew out of friendships strengthened during Cullman's post-2011-tornado rebuilding era. Founder roster upgraded in Pass 10 from a 2016 North Alabama Craft Beer Trail profile.
The Beer Library
Beers
Richter's Pils
Year-RoundPilsner
Alabama Pass 17. 30 IBU. Historic-recipe-inspired flagship; see Story Leads.
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Year-RoundIPA
Alabama Pass 17. 50 IBU. Current official beer page.
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Year-RoundBavarian-Style Dunkel
Alabama Pass 17. 19 IBU. 2018 GABF silver medal noted by brewery.
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Year-RoundBaltic Porter
Alabama Pass 17. 23 IBU. Current official beer page.
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Year-RoundBerliner Weisse / Sour
Alabama Pass 17. 5 IBU. Current official beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Goatopia Juicy IPA
CURRENTJuicy IPA
Alabama Pass 17. 23 IBU. Current official beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Christkindlmarkt
CURRENTWitbier
Alabama Pass 17. 13 IBU. Current official beer page.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Goat Island Blonde
CURRENTAmerican Blonde Ale
Alabama Pass 17. 17 IBU. Current official beer page.
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YEAR-ROUND / AWARD BEEREuropean Red Ale
Alabama Pass 17. 32 IBU. Current official beer; 2016 Alabama Craft Beer Championship gold and 2017 bronze documented in period coverage.
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YEAR-ROUND / AWARD BEERHefeweizen
Alabama Pass 17. 13 IBU. Current official beer; won gold at the 2018 Alabama Craft Beer Championship.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Colonel's Festbier
HISTORICAL / AWARD BEEROktoberfest / Festbier
Alabama Pass 17. Historical Goat Island festival beer; bronze in the Oktoberfest category at the 2017 Alabama Craft Beer Championship. Do not automatically merge with the brewery's current Oktoberfest without recipe/name-lineage proof.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2018
Silver
Great American Beer Festival
- 2018
Gold
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2018
Bronze
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2017
Gold — Pilsner
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2017
Second Place Overall — Best in Show
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2017
Bronze — Red Ale
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2017
Bronze — Oktoberfest
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2016
Bronze
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
- 2016
Gold
Alabama Craft Beer Championship
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record compiled in Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook), which cited https://www.cullmantribune.com/2016/11/01/amla-beer-trail-highlights-craft-breweries-in-north-alabama/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's Alabama master, Pass 17 — Blount and outer north-east reconciliation (research workbook) · Compiled with ChatGPT web search under the Tally's workbook protocol · 2026-08
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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