Tallgrass Pub Ale
The original Tallgrass beer, Pub Ale was created by founder Jeff Gill during a homebrew session in which he discovered he was missing some of the ingredients needed for a recipe. A new recipe was written on the spot and Pub Ale was born. Pub Ale is a rich, mild and smooth English brown ale, with a lightly sweet, toasty and nutty flavor with hints of caramel and molasses.
The beer was different from anything he or his friends could find on tap or on the shelf. It was a beer that was a deep chestnut color, yet had a great flavor and was so light tasting that it kept you wanting more. The distinctive look and taste of Tallgrass Ale comes from our unique blend of German, English, and American-style malts and a generous helping of both American and traditional English hops. These ingredients, our English brewer’s yeast, and the Flint Hills’ excellent brewing water gives Tallgrass Ale a distinctive, toffee-highlighted taste and smooth profile that is always drinkable.
Tallgrass Ale is available on tap in bars and restaurants throughout our distribution area, so try it at your favorite local bar. If they don’t have it, ask for it! Or, you can stop by our brewery in Manhattan and buy some for yourself after a tour and a free sample!
The beer was different from anything he or his friends could find on tap or on the shelf. It was a beer that was a deep chestnut color, yet had a great flavor and was so light tasting that it kept you wanting more. The distinctive look and taste of Tallgrass Ale comes from our unique blend of German, English, and American-style malts and a generous helping of both American and traditional English hops. These ingredients, our English brewer’s yeast, and the Flint Hills’ excellent brewing water gives Tallgrass Ale a distinctive, toffee-highlighted taste and smooth profile that is always drinkable.
Tallgrass Ale is available on tap in bars and restaurants throughout our distribution area, so try it at your favorite local bar. If they don’t have it, ask for it! Or, you can stop by our brewery in Manhattan and buy some for yourself after a tour and a free sample!
3.1
197 reviews
Manhattan, United States
Community reviews
I like ey. So god. Kinda like a lite amber kinda feel. Yummy goes great w chips and salaa and some good coaching conversation.
Mahogany pour with an off white head. Pretty hazy, but packed with some malty and hop flavors. Its what I always Newcastle to taste like! Good beer.
16oz can Thanks Jake65 Hazy medium down with small light tan head. Nice toasted and toffee aroma and flavors. A little hop kick. More character and complexity than most browns I’ve had. Not bad.
Can. Pours a clear reddish amber with a light brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of nuttiness and earthy grains with a bit of sweetness. Flavor has dark bread and a touch of grass up front with a nutty finish. A bit thin.
Can pours a dark brown with a large tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, with some light vanilla. Really nice earthy coffee roast, with dry dark chocolate, and finishing bitter with a touch of citrus hops. Very drinkable and tasty!
Aroma is malts, toasted/nuttiness and light fruit. The flavor is malts, nuttiness, fruit and a mildly sour/tangy finish.
Brown pour with ruby highlights and a thick off white head.
aroma is caramel/toffee, light cocoa, hazelnut.
Toffee and nut flavour. light dusty chocolate. light woody hop in the finish keeps the sweetness down. Very drinkable.
The malts star in this sweet and nutty brew. Enjoyed from one of the 53 taps at Stubby’s Gastrogrub & Beer Bar in Milwaukee.
I like this beer! Poured a bit cold out of the can, but with a large, fluffy, frothy, foamy, light tan head that soon settles to a light cover and some lace. Color is a clear mahogany with some bubble trails. Aroma is a fresh malt, molasses, grain, hop. Flavor’s like nose and light with a touch of bitter at the end. Body is odd as it’s good on one hand, yet a bit thin too. Carbonation is good. Finish is like flavor, has bitter going to sweet, and has some length. Pretty good drinking stuff all in all.
Can. Poured medium reddish-brown with a short tan head. The aroma picked up sweet, toasted caramel and nutty notes with light fruity accents. The flavor found similar.. nutty notes, caramel, and a touch of molasses at the core, with dry herbal bitterness around.. finished dry and nutty. Lighter-bodied and dry as mentioned on the palate.. decent feel and flow.. aiight stuff.
Draught
Pours a dark brown with a good head and nice lacing on the glass.
The aroma is fairly mellow, with some light fruity hops and a nice nutty/toasted nut aroma.
The flavor is rich and nutty with nice coffee roastiness. The chocolate notes are nice but light, and the bitterness is satisfying but low. Simple and not complex but very enjoyable.
A great, clean, drinkable, satisfying, & flavorful session ale.
Lower 50th percentile for style, u jokin? This would pull a much bigger score from a sexier brewery.
Tap pours soft brown with light khaki fizz across the top. There is a slight aroma of toasted malty bread. It is light and smooth, kind of an ale version of the darker amber bocks popular in Texas. Slightly sweet, slightly creamy and light bodied with a lower amount of carbonation, it goes down quick on a warm day. Decent one overall.
Can from chase thanks! Pours clear brown with huge head. Aroma is yeast and light roast, taste is similar, easy drinking light body pub ale.
Pint can - Pours deep brown with a big foamy tan head. Not a very pungent nose. There’s some metal in there, along with a mellow nutty maltiness. Taste is more pungent, with big roasty dark bread malt, a touch of ash, lots of lightly bitter nuttiness, and a touch of herbal hops. Finishes malty and nutty. Watery, with a bit of biting carbonation. Tasty.
Can - big foamy head, nice dark amber color, nutty malty aroma and flavor, mild hops , not bad overall
From a can. Aroma is light chocolate and English malt. Flavor is faint chocolate, caramel, English malt, and a light syrupy flavor. Pretty decent light drinker.
A - Pours a beautiful reddish brown color with a 2 finger khaki head. Nice lacing patterns.
S - Sweet roasted malt, sunflower seeds, pecans, fruity, cacao, bready yeast.
T - Follows the nose, sweet roasted malt, caramel, nutty pecan background, woody vanilla, finishes with roasted grain and low hop bitterness.
M - Light to medium body, smooth and creamy feel.
This was way better than expected! Solid flavors and well rounded. Superb drinkability. Very nutty and perfectly roasted malts. Recommended!
Serving type: can
02-19-2012
From the can, reddish brown pour with a white head. Roast and earthy aroma. A little bit of sweetness in the finish. Good beer!
The appearance of this beer is a clear brown color mixed with a small white head that fades quickly, and the aroma smells of toasted malts, caramel, and bread yeast. The taste is mildly sweet and slightly umami, which is very nice on the tongue; furthermore, the palate combines a medium body, thin texture, soft carbonation, and an abrupt finish.
Pours dark amber brown. Frothy dark eggshell head. Aroma is not much to speak of...some faint malty notes. Taste is toffee and toast light bitter dry finish easy to drink very mild good sessionable ale wont score high on points but its a good session ale
Pours a translucent brownish amber with a small bubbly off white head. Aroma of toasted nuts, tea and bready malt. Flavor of toasted malt, light toffee and nuts.
Earlier Rating: 5/18/2011 Total Score: 3.6
Pours a lightly hazy brown with amber notes and a medium creamy off white head. Aroma of toffee, toasted malt, nuts and chocolate. Flavor of about the same. Nice rounded malty profile.
From the old 12oz. bottle. Dark with moderate tan head. Smoky caramel aroma--maybe a little toffee. Heavy palate. Smoky candy bar taste. Not for me.
Serving: 16 oz. can from Total Wine Sterling. It pours a light brown color with a small, light tan head. The nose has a strong metallic note with hints of nuttiness. Not inspiring. The flavor is weak with slight caramel, vegetal, and malt notes. Dry, lingering metallic finish. Weak offering.
Poured from can. Dark orange-red and cloudy with straw-colored head. Aroma is toffee, toast, roasted nuts, grain and slightly smokey. Taste malty, grain, fruity and slightly sweet that moves to mild bitter afternotes. Smooth and creamy, medium body with light carbonation. Overall very drinkable and refreshing. Prefer it colder in a heavy pint glass. Can’t have just one!
On tap at the brewery on 12/08/2012. Pours a brown color with white head. Nutty, toffee, malty flavors. Description advertised this as a "English Brown Ale". I am not typically a big fan of english browns, but this was quite tasty.
This was first tallgrass beer that I tried and I wasn’t overly impressed. It was surprisingly dark with a flavor that lacked the malty sweetness that kind of appearance suggested. Grassy hops with some caramel and sugar.
$2.35 pint can from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Brown with an inch of off-white head, Smells of smoke, cola, malt, and wet, dried leaves. Tastes of light caramel, roasted malts, and nuts.
Tall Can:
Pours cloudy, wood brown with a creamy light tan head.
Scent is light malt, caramel.
Taste is a pleasant, rich caramel, nut, chocolate.
Very creamy and smooth.
Really enjoyed this one.
Can. Caramel, chocolate, dark fruit, and light hops aroma. Murky dark amber with a small beige head, thin loose lacing. Toasty, nutty, chocolate malt flavor. Medium body, lively carbonation. Nice malty beer.
Can. Chocolate covered raisin and malt aroma. Dark brown with nice tan head. Sweet chocolate and grainy barley malt flavor. Very good.