Tallgrass Brewing 2015 Release Schedule

Here is the most recent Tallgrass Brewing 2015 release calendar. As seen below, there are some new beers to their lineup. Most noted is a new addition to their year-round lineup debuting next month: 16-Bit Double APA. I had the pleasure of trying this at a Tallgrass beer dinner last month and it is outstanding. Will be in my fridge a LOT.

Also starting next month, Tallgrass will be releasing a line of small batch, limited release (mainly barrel-aged) beers. First up will be Wooden Rooster, which is a barrel-aged version of their Velvet Rooster tripel. I'm also really looking forward to Bourbon Barrel Buffalo Sweat this Fall. All of these beers will come in 19.2oz cans and be sold as singles.

Also noted will be two new seasonals. One will be a fruited Saison and the other is a new IPA called Episodic IPA, which will be available only in their new United Hop Theory mixed pack.

Stoked for the this year and the years to come from Tallgrass as they open their new, much larger brewery. They will have a dedicated barrel program, as well as a separate souring facility, so we will likely see some sours coming from them next year as well.

 

No joking, when I spoke with Joe (one of their sales reps) at a recent Tallgrass beer dinner, he said he was most excited about their sour program and that they would indeed be brewing "gueuzes", "lambics" and other sours and will be canning all of them.

 

Unless I (and everyone else there) was lied to, it is 100% in the works. I heard it directly from Joe Hotek of Tallgrass at a Tallgrass Beer Dinner held at RoCA in Des Moines last month. Message him on Twitter and I'm sure he'd be happy to confirm their separate souring facility. He talked about it with our entire group and said he was very excited for it. Said it would likely be late 2016 or 2017 before we see any sours though, simply due to time to age and condition them before releasing. His Twitter handle is: @TallgrassJoe

 

Assuming that's you in your avatar, I remember you. I was sitting next to the big dude on the end, across from Mark Doll and his wife. I'm still salivating over that Pub Ale Beer Cheese Soup and the Buffalo Sweat Ribeye!

 

It's part of their new brewery. From what Joe said, it's a separate facility outside of their main brewhouse though and is completely sealed so that no cross contamination/wild yeasts/bacteria from the facility will be able to make it into the main brewery. They also have a dedicated barrel warehouse where they will apparently be aging all of their barrel aged beers in, which is also part of the new brewery.

I'm sure @DollCraftEric would come in and confirm that I'm not bullshitting about the separate sour facility and barrel warehouse at the new Tallgrass Brewery. He is the Tallgrass distributor in Central Iowa, is close friends with Joe and was also at the beer dinner.