Pub Ale
Tallgrass Brewing Company in Wichita, Kansas, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.36
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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.
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.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Papsoe. Pours hazy to murky dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted and breadish malt. Slight toffee note. Citric and bitter. Mild fruity. Off. Bitter and citric finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2010
at 11:57
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Clear amber with a tiny off white head. Sweet aroma with plums, roasted malt and caramel notes. Sweet and sourish flavour with roasted malt, lacto and milky notes. Finished sourish.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2010
at 11:24
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Tasting at Papsø
Hazy amber color. The aroma has some vanilla and cigar; strange. Light body, also because it’s evident that there is an infection going on, that produced some sourness.
Hazy amber color. The aroma has some vanilla and cigar; strange. Light body, also because it’s evident that there is an infection going on, that produced some sourness.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2010
at 08:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of byaeger. Pours a clear dark amber with a small off-white head. Roasted malty nose. Medium body, roasted malts, nuts and fruit with a vague underlying tartness. This will turn sour pretty soon... Dry finish. 100410
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2010
at 07:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle from theisti. Nose of caramel, light toffee, and some floral hoppiness. Slightly hazy light brown with a medium beige head. Flavor is peppery, caramel, and very light bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2009
at 14:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
This one came in my beer club. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a caramel-brown color with a huge tan head. The aroma was nutty and fairly malty with an undertone of cocoa and cherries. The flavor was malty, bitter and toasty with light notes of ripe cherries, nut and caramel. The finish was long, tangy, bitter, nutty and a bit fruity. Medium body. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2009
at 15:57
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to cavie. Pours with a tan head and an amber body. Aroma of pine and husk. Taste is watery and vegital with light hops. Watery as hell.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2009
at 09:19
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Rather ordinary brown ale. Malt, and no real hops. Brown color, and a solid session beer that is drinkable enough but has little to offer.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2009
at 14:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
More disrespect. Nice pour with a medium size head that fades in a timely manner, but never fully. Color is copper-like brown, lightly hazy, unfiltered or lightly filtered. Aroma is rich with a creamy-chocolate-hazelnut character that I am simply adoring. It is like a rich ice cream. I am surprised and shocked how rich and welcoming this is. The taste does not live up to the aroma. It has some dark, brown pound cake kind of maltiness but then there is an inexplicable mineral water flavor witha very strong un-citric lemon-mineral finish. Something is amiss there. This aspect needs to be changed, I will re-rate and hope its only this one bottle. Some of that wonderful hazelnut sweetness at the very end of the afertaste hidden underneath the mineral flavor.
12oz, bottled about 12/21/08 (maybe a bit old), Free State willibecher glass.
12oz, bottled about 12/21/08 (maybe a bit old), Free State willibecher glass.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2009
at 00:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Auntie Maes in Manhattan, Kansas. Pour is reddish brown with a smallish off white head. Aroma of a bit of malt. Taste is sweet fruit biscuit malt and caramel nuttiness. There are some British type hops in the middle / finish. Palate is thin to medium, nice enough body. Very drinkable beer. In a college town like Manhattan, this should be a popular beer. Thanks Jeff for the info on where your beer was on, well worth seeking out.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jun 2008
at 08:34