Tallgrass Brewing Company Buffalo Sweat
Brewery: Tallgrass Brewing Company
Beer: Buffalo Sweat, 1 pint can
Style: Stout
POP: Gift from Kate of The Can Van
Price: It was a present, duh.
This lovely can of stout (!) comes courtesy of my friend Kate, a beer pioneer of sorts as one of the founding members of the aforementioned Can Van. Kate – who lives in my former state of California – has been a great beer saint, even risking life and limb at the hands of the law to traffic beer across state lines to bring me a Pliny the Elder, as well as other delicious brews.
Like this one.
Maybe the novelty of stout in a can hasn’t worn off on me yet. Maybe it’s the fact that this beer pours like a Pepsi – dark brown with a bubbly tan head – that trips me out a bit. Regardless, the size of the can (a full pint – more than my “pint” glass) and the wonderful dark chocolate and toasted malt aroma brings me back into adulthood.
The taste is basic dry stout – no surprises or sweetness from caramel malts. Even as it warms, it’s a bit watery in the finish, but otherwise I can find no faults with this beer. Beautiful lacing down the glass as well as a thin layer of foam that sticks around until the very end showcases that this is a well brewed beer with the highest quality ingredients.
Manhattan, KS, is lucky to have this brewery. Combining my loves – college basketball and great beer – perhaps a road trip to the brewery and the Octagon of Doom is in order.
One of the best named beers ever.
Brian. It’s now March 2012. Where have all the posts gone? How are you going to meet new internet stalkers turned trivia team co-founders if you don’t update the blog??