October 21, 2016
Berthoud, Colorado 

It’s fresh, it’s LOCAL, it’s City Star Brewing’s first test batch of Local Yokel! The American Pale Ale will be released in City Star Brewing’s downtown Berthoud taproom on October 22nd. Local Yokel is brewed with locally sourced ingredients: whole leaf dried Chinook and Cascade hops from Colorado Hop Company, grown just north of Fort Collins and barley grown and malted in Loveland at Root Shoot Malting. The easy drinking brew showcases the grain and hop bill with citrus notes and a light bitterness, finishing at 6% and 40 IBU.

Each year City Star Brewing and other Colorado craft breweries brew with Colorado grown fresh hops during the annual harvest. Head brewer John Way takes this local collaboration a step further by sourcing a year’s supply of dried locally grown hops, “Local Yokel will be a hyper local ale, brewed year round. This beer will feature ingredients grown within a 60 mile radius of our Berthoud taproom”. At the heart of the Local Yokel recipe is Root Shoot Malting’s pale malt, barley grown in our backyard and malted at the start-up’s brand new state-of-the-art facility in Loveland, Colorado.

City Star Brewing will be calling all local yokels to offer feedback on the beer so the brewhouse can mash and churn test batches, formulating the ultimate local ale. Comment cards will be distributed during the release to include folks in the decision making process to formulate the finished product.

Local Yokel Test Batch 1 will be released in the City Star taproom on Saturday, October 22nd at 12pm. The G Spot food truck will be serving out front at 5pm, and a local bluegrass duo plays at 7pm.

September 27th, 2016
Berthoud, Colorado 

The latest in City Star’s Barrel Aged Series will be released in the City Star taproom this Saturday: Hellbilly, a sour harvest ale brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla and aged 10 months in rum oak barrels. The brew features a deep orange hue, offers a bouquet of spices on the nose, tastes remarkably tart (3.46 pH) with a pumpkin oak finish, 7% ABV.

500 bottles will be available for sale at $18/22oz bottle (1 case limit), AND Hellbilly will be on draft for sampling.

Each bottle is dipped in wax and hand stamped with the City Star Brewing seal. With only 500 bottles of Hellbilly we don’t expect our supply to stick around.

September 14, 2016
Berthoud, Colorado

Calling all musicians, craftsmen, farmers, gardeners, artists and enthusiasts of life: City Star Brewing will be hosting the inaugural City Star Farm Stand Band Festival on Saturday, September 24^th 11am-5pm in Fickel Park, downtown Berthoud, CO (The Garden Spot).

City Star Farm Stand Band is a celebration of a successful summer harvest on the final day of the Berthoud Farmers Market. The festival features live music by The Prairie Scholars, food trucks, “Big Zucch Contest” (Heaviest Zucchini contest throughout the day),  3D art puzzle installation, antique tractors on display, games for the young at heart, local vendors,  and what could be the most intriguing event of the day… the “Farm Stand Band Talent Show” at 3pm.

A special Chase The Music celebration will be included, dedicated to a Berthoud child. This unique organization helps children battling critical illness by having original music composed and performed for them. Learn more at chasethemusic.org.

100% of the proceeds from Farm Stand Band benefit Berthoud Local, cultivating Berthoud as “The Garden Spot of Colorado”. Berthoud Local supports and encourages a local food culture where people learn first-hand the place of agriculture in our community and the value of healthy food, environment and lifestyles.

For more info please visit City Star Farm Stand Band

August 29, 2016
Berthoud, Colorado

Free flapjacks, Flapjack Queen contest, classic cars, breakfast beers and small town love… 

In 1948 the Town of Berthoud created “Flap Jack 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. The annual festivities that brought upwards of 3,000 people to the town was canceled in 1959. City Star Brewing brought this annual tradition back to life in 2015: giving away 1,000 flapjacks, raising $1,000 for the Berthoud Historical Society, and crowning the first Flapjack Queen in 50 year – Caitlin Ascher.

City Star’s 2nd Annual Flap Jack Day will be held on Labor Day, Monday, September 5th 11am-6pm. The event features FREE flapjacks, vintage car show and the Flapjack Queen contest. In a modern twist the craft brewery will offer a flapjack themed breakfast beer flight to serve throughout the day: Coffee Stout, Peach Belgian Pale Ale, Blueberry Golden Ale, and Maple Brown Ale. At 3pm ladies will compete in the Flapjack Queen Contest to be the first lady to finish 5 flapjacks, complete with a tiara and prizes from local businesses. All donations benefit the Berthoud Historical Society. Attendees dress to impress as the town steps back into the fabulous 50’s. Learn more at http://berthoudflapjackday.com.

A bit of flapjack history courtesty The Berthoud Historical Society… from 1948 to 1958 the local Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce hosted a 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 apjacks. 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.