8-Bit Pale Ale Tallgrass Brewing Co.

BeerAdvocate magazine|#125 (June 2017)

The nostalgia of colorful video game sprites and pixels takes JeffGill back to the Nintendo console games he played with college buddies in the mid-90s.

- Courtney Cox

“Tecmo Super Bowl probably lowered my GPA in college a couple tenths of a point,” jokes Gill, founder of Tallgrass Brewing Company.

He was about 35 when a friend who owned a video game store brought up the idea for 8-Bit Pale Ale. The concept reminded Neil Camera, then Tallgrass’ creative director, of his local arcade, where “pinball ruled for years” until the arrival of the original Donkey Kong stand-up arcade game. “From that day on, we were all hooked on sprites.”

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