Tallgrass Brewing Company
Tallgrass Brewing Company is a brand of beers brewed and distributed by the Wichita Brewing Company and a former craft brewery that was located in Manhattan, Kansas, that operated from 2006 to 2018. At the time of its closing, Tallgrass was the largest brewery in Kansas, and was distributed in 18 states. In August 2018, Tallgrass announced that it would be shutting down operations indefinitely. In 2020 Wichita Brewing company signed a licensing agreement and began brewing and distributing four beers formerly brewed by the company under the Tallgrass Brewing Company brand. History. The brewery was founded  by Jeff Gill in 2006. Gill was a former geologist, who had learned brewing as a homebrewer. Though initially the beers were bottled, the brewery switched to cans in 2010 for environmental and quality reasons. In 2014, the Brewery moved from its original warehouse space, to a warehouse space near Manhattan Regional Airport. The expansion increased the brewery's capacity from a Tallgrass record 365,000 gallons produced in 2013, to the ability to brew 3 million gallons per year. At the same time, Tallgrass opened a brewpub, called Tallgrass Taphouse on Poyntz Avenue in downtown Manhattan. In August 2018, Tallgrass  announced that it would be shutting down operations indefinitely, although the Taphouse brewpub remains open. In 2020, Wichita Brewing Company signed a licensing agreement to revive the brand and start brewing once popular beers from Tallgrass. The beers are brewed using original equipment from the Tallgrass brewery that was purchased in 2015.