Tom Pakele and Stevieguitar Glotzer
2025-07-05 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
Tom Pakele and Stevieguitar Glotzer, a guitar, harmonica blues duo playing the timeless music of Howling Wolf, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Mayall and so much more including tasty original music.

Mojito Fizz Hard Seltzer
2025-07-11 15:00 - 22:00
Hard seltzer, naturally gluten free flavored with lime, mint for the perfect summer cooler.

Mad Dog Blues Duo
2025-07-11 18:00 - 20:30
Changing the face of the “Colorado Sound,” Mad Dog Blues is a high-energy, acoustic blues jam band. We are Mad Dog Friedman on harmonica (founder of Papa Juke, Mojo Medicine Show, Blue Lightning & Harmonica Loowinski), Jeff Becker (Hippy Buckaroos) on mandolin, Clark Chanslor (White Water Ramble) on stand-up bass, Sean Bennight on acoustic guitar and Mark Kaczorowski (Blues on the Lamb) on acoustic guitar. Our original “Colorado Country Blues” sound is a unique fusion of delta blues, bluegrass, honky-tonk, hokum and acoustic jam music.
www.coloradocountryblues.com

Brightwire
2025-07-13 17:00 - 19:30
Houston-based Folk-Rock/Americana
https://brightwiremusic.com/

Beer Release: Easy Peasy Lemon Shandy
2025-07-18 15:00 - 22:00
Refreshing shandy style lager finished with lemon. Available on draft and in cans to-go.

Beer Release: Road Trippin' Amber Lager
2025-07-25 15:00 - 22:00
American Amber Lager is easy drinking and lightly malty with toasty / caramel undertones. Crushable at 5.1 % and mild spicy notes from the Willamette hops. Root Shoot Malting’s Vienna and Munich 10 malt were used to achieve the malty flavors and add color. Available on tap and in cans to-go.

Pennies on the Track
2025-07-25 18:00 - 20:30
Pennies on the Track is a Colorado Front Range acoustic folk trio. Three singer/songwriters merge sweet vocal harmonies and versatile instrumentation into folk rock and blue grass barnburners, acoustic ballads and rock and roll. With original music and covers of some Americana’s greatest, the band brings something for everybody. The Pennies are Brian Good, Jack Keith and Neil Sperandeo, who met while playing in other groups, open mics and solo gigs. Now good friends as well as bandmates and collaborating songwriters, these guys play for the love of making music together, and that enjoyment reaches out to anyone listening.
https://www.facebook.com/PenniesOnTheTrack

Dugan Irby with Live Painting by Cecilia Samdahl
2025-07-26 18:00 - 20:30
Dugan Irby’s music is best described as Modern Americana that blends a variety of styles, creating a listening experience that all will enjoy. Come sit on the metaphorical front porch with Dugan Irby and make a memory that will bring a smile to your soul!
https://www.duganirbyband.com/

Beer Release: Lovejoy Hefeweizen
2025-08-01 15:00 - 22:00
German Hefeweizen brewed with classic Weihenstephan yeast and Root Shoot Malting’s Munich Wheat, a specialty of their Olander Wheat.
The Town of Berthoud was built on wheat. The towering grain elevator was constructed by the Lovejoy brothers in 1919, at a time when agriculture dominated the local economy. The landmark on 3rd Street served as a beacon of the prosperous farming community, and is an important historical building today.
Available on draft and in 16oz. cans to-go.

Tie Dye Party
2025-08-02 12:00 - 15:00
Join us 8/2 in the beer garden for a guided DIY tie dye event 12-3pm. Your $38 ticket gets you a white “Beer Makes Me Happy” City Star logo tee, your first beer and an on site tie dye helper to assist you in creating a groovy tee! Shirts and sizes are limited, purchase ahead of time in the taproom.

Beer Release: Grapefruit IPA
2025-08-08 15:00 - 22:00
An American IPA with grapefruit. Available on tap and 16oz 4-packs to go!

Hymn for Her
2025-08-09 18:00 - 20:30
Hymn for Her have been busy touring across the country and abroad over the past few years, injecting juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia that has been described as “Hell’s Angels meets the Amish,” and “Hillbillies with electronics opening Pandora’s Box”
Hymn For Her is on the road again spreading their juiced up, down-home, roots rock and roll. From ruckus outlaw to country folk, their sounds will shake your bones and soothe your soul. Their most recent 2024 release, ‘Bloodier Than Blood,’ is Hymn For Her’s official debut as a family band.
Lucy & Wayne started as a duo, raising their daughter, Diver, on the road in their vintage Bambi Airstream trailer. At an early age, Diver began joining her parents on stage to sing a song or two.
https://hymnforher.com/

Bryan Dubrow
2025-08-10 17:00 - 19:30
Bryan Dubrow is a guitarist steeped in the tradition of acoustic guitar flatpicking. His playing pairs a sincere vocal delivery with intricate guitar playing showcasing both a deep study of the flatpicking tradition and his own personal style.

Beer Release: Coconut Cowboy
2025-08-15 15:00 - 22:00
Cowboys Golden lager conditioned with toasted coconut. Available on tap only.

McLeod Nine Duo
2025-08-17 17:00 - 19:30
McLeod Nine, the Swingy Stringy Funky Folky duo from Texas, plays jiggy, jazzy, gorgeous acoustic music, with roots deep in their Celtic and Americana past. Their award-winning songwriting (Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk finalists, and Americana Fest, Nacogdoches winner) is front and center in their shows and draws from a deep well of musical and life experience. Most of all, McLeod Nine want their audiences to be energized, inspired and to have fun! (For example, One of the highlights of their shows is Christy getting the audience to dance a simple Irish Ceili dance.)
Gordon and Christy McLeod’s eclectic music spans a wide range of worlds including Americana, Celtic, Folk, Irish, Swing and Django-jazz, Bluegrass and Cajun. In a world of trendy and ever narrowing genres, McLeod Nine‘s shows offer a refreshingly varied pallet of styles and textures. While the roots of their musical tree are the American and Celtic traditions , the branches cover a wide patch of ground strewn with multi-colored leaves of blues, jazz, and even classical hues. Christy says ” We want to make sure in our shows that the next song is always something different from the last one!”
McLeod Nine have toured extensively in USA playing festivals, listening rooms and theaters and have traveled to Ireland over 20 times and studied traditional Irish music and dance at The University of Limerick. Gordon is a well-respected traditional Irish fiddle player and is sought after as a fiddle camp instructor. He has released two full length albums of Irish fiddle music with some of the best trad musicians in Ireland as guest artists.
https://mcleodninemusic.com

Beer Release: Hazy IPA Jacob's Radio
2025-08-22 15:00 - 22:00
A New England style Hazy IPA. Tune in to the music that City Star brewer Jacob loves best. This playlist was curated by Jacob himself and includes music from artists like Father John, Misty, Caamp & Mt. Joy. Available on tap and in cans to-go.

Cheers To Change
2025-08-29 15:00 - 22:00
On 8/29 City Star is partnering up with NoCo Foundation for Cheers to Change as they celebrate 50 years of philanthropy. We will be releasing Watermelon Hefeweizen and $1/beer sold on this event will go to NoCo Foundation. Funds raised will go into the Community Fund accounts for Berthoud.
“The NoCo Foundation strives to create positive impact within our communities through the vital support of our generous donors, nonprofit partners, and community members. By emphasizing the region’s most pressing issues identified in the Intersections Report, including housing, water, and mental health, we engage and educate donors, inspiring them to make impactful investments in key community issues.”

Beer Release: Cheers To Change
2025-08-29 15:00 - 22:00
Watermelon German Hefeweizen. $1/beer sold goes to NoCo Community Foundation. Available on tap only.

Faith Crill
2025-08-31 17:00 - 19:30
Faith Crill is a rising singer-songwriter in the NOCO area! Music is the central focus and passion of her life, and has been since she was a child. She has experience singing a variety of styles and genres, including pop, rock, musical theatre, funk, jazz, classical, and country. She is currently pursuing a double-major in Music Business as well as Vocal Jazz performance, and works as a private voice teacher! You can follow Faith‘s journey on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube on @faithcrillmusic everywhere!

Flapjack Day
2025-09-01
Free flapjacks, breakfast beer flights, vintage cars, 50’s dress, support for the Berthoud Historical Society and the Flapjack Queen Contest.
FLAPJACK DAY HISTORY
In 1948 the Town of Berthoud created “Flapjack Day” to be celebrated on Labor Day to bring neighbors together and visitors from afar to enjoy one of the simple pleasures in life… flapjacks.
From 1948 to 1958 the local Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce hosted Flapjack Day in Berthoud Town Park that drew hordes of people to “The Garden Spot.” On the first Flapjack Day (1948) an estimated 1,000 persons descended on Berthoud to devour 5,000 free pancakes. By 1949, The Berthoud Bulletin announced that 3,700 visitors from 21 states downed a whopping 7,400 flapjacks. Over its eleven-year span, Flapjack Day grew to include the crowning of a Flapjack Queen. spike-driving, swimming and diving contests, a baton twirling competition, pet-and-doll parades, a pig catching scramble, a tractor driving challenge. The last Flapjack Day was held in 1959 when the Chamber of Commerce decided to cancel; the event due to the high cost of hosting such a spectacle.
City Star Brewing brought this annual tradition back to life in 2015: giving away 1,000 flap jacks, raising $1,000 for the Berthoud Historical Society, and crowning the first Flapjack Queen in 50 years – Caitlin Ascher.
Schedule and Info below… stay tuned for 2025 details!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
11am-3pm: FREE Flapjacks
11am-5pm: Breakfast Beer Flights
11am-1pm: Vintage Car Show
1:30: Flapjack Queen Contest
3-5pm: Live Music with Vern Neeley Vibe

Sign up to participate in the Flapjack Queen Contest in the taproom
If you would like to participate in the car show please contact Ron at: ron1@meiningautomotive.com

Vern Neeley Vibe
2025-09-01 15:00 - 17:00
VNV is a Jazz Group comprised of 3-6 members with the core revolving around Vern Neeley on saxophones and vocals, Kathryn Ballard Shut on piano, Mark Brostrom on bass, and Jimmy Kolodziej on percussion and guitar.
Our music is based in the tradition and style of some of the greatest musicians of all time, like Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver, Coleman Hawkins, Grover Washington Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Michael Bublé.
Vern has been performing professionally for nearly 30 years, sharing the stage with legends such as Arturo Sandoval, Jack Jones, Dianne Schuur, Lou Rawls, Louis Bellson, and Clark Terry just to name a few. Vern has been collaborating with Relentless recording artist Jimmy Kolodziej of ‘Jim Jamm Jimmy’ for the past 5 years and has recorded two full length albums with JJJ, ‘#1 Contender’ and ‘Bad Influence (Live and Off Color)’.
Currently, the VNV can be seen all around Denver and the metro area. Recent performances include Odyssey Beerwerks and Arvada Tavern in Arvada, and City Star Brewing in Berthoud. Vern has been busy practicing and arranging tunes for the VNV and is excited to be joined onstage by his beautiful wife, Miss Tara Neeley. Tara is an accomplished instrumentalist and music educator. One of her true passions is vocal music and it is in this arena that we will showcase her talents.
jazz
https://www.reverbnation.com/vnvjazz

Beer Release: West Coast Classic IPA
2025-09-05 15:00 - 22:00
West Coast IPA dry hopped with Centennial hops. Available on tap only.

Beer Release: Oktoberfest
2025-09-12 15:00 - 22:00
Festbier Lager brewed with German malt and noble hops. Moderate, elegant malt flavor and light hop character. Golden-copper hue. Easy drinking fall seasonal. Lederhosen optional. On draft and in 16oz can 4-packs.

Steve Rock Tanzkapelle
2025-09-12 17:30 - 20:30
Steve Rock Tanzkapelle joins us to kick off Oktoberfest season with German American Oktoberfest Music!

Redd and The Paper Flowers
2025-09-13 18:00 - 20:30
On tour from Knoxville, Tennessee…
In the heart of Knoxville’s bustling music scene, Redd Daugherty’s story was a melody drifting through the city’s night air. By day, she molded young minds in the classrooms of L&N STEM Academy; by night, she painted her emotions with the strokes of her guitar strings. Starring on American Idol drove her passion even further, and the seeds of something wonderful began to grow. The stars aligned when she met Gavin Gregg, Katie Adams, and Colleen d’Alelio, kindred spirits in the realm of music. Together, they became the harmonious collective, Redd & the Paper Flowers, a band whose name evokes the delicate yet resilient nature of their songs. Each member brought a unique flavor to the mix, creating a sound that was as diverse as the city that inspired it. As the buzz around their new 2023 album grows, the anticipation mirrors the energy of their live performances— a spirited fusion of eclectic sound, warm melodies, and rhythmic mastery. Check out some tunes below!
https://www.reddandthepaperflowers.com/

Beer Release: Homegrown IPA
2025-09-19 15:00 - 22:00
American IPA wet hopped with fresh Centennial hops grown in the City Star beer garden. Available on draft only.

Many Mountains
2025-09-21 17:00 - 19:30
Forming in Colorado as Many Mountains in 2013, Katie Rose Nelson and Dustin Moran bring a genre-bending sound to folk-rock.
Various influences trickle through their music to create something fresh yet familiar. Their songs are interlaced with vocal harmonies and leads that alternate between the two songwriters, creating a rich and lasting sound with lyrics that reflect on the relationship we have with ourselves and others – bringing truths to the table, facing who we are, and the constant state of becoming. Dustin adds textured and ambient electric guitar over Katie Rose’s rhythmic acoustic, often improvising with jazzy temperance.
Having shared the bill with acts like Gin Blossoms, Paul Cauthen, Dylan LeBlanc, and Valley Queen their sound transcends ordinary genre limitations.
Supported by the sonic landscape they create, you’ll be on a journey with Many Mountains.
http://www.manymountainsmusic.com

Beer Release: Sour Strawberry Rhubarb
2025-09-26 15:00 - 22:00
Barrel aged strawberry rhubarb sour brewed with locally grown rhubarb. Aged/soured 1 year in barrels. Available on tap only.

Passport Food Truck
2025-09-26 16:00 - 20:00
Passport Traveling Eatery is a purveyor of World Tapas (small eats) dining from their travels around the world.
https://www.passportfoodtruck.com/

Acoustic Union
2025-09-27 18:00 - 20:30
Singer-songwriter Stacy Steven Hanson has been writing and performing his songs of hope around the Midwest for the last two decades. Drawing from a wide variety of influences he has developed a blend of Folk Americana music with rock n’ roll undertones all his own. His rich baritone voice resonates with conviction and continues to lure in audiences wherever he goes.
Stacy formed Red Sky Warning in 2009 and Merry Weathers in 2011, both of which perform around the Midwest on a regular basis.
https://brokenwristrecords.com/stacy-steven-hanson-epk
