City Star Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with Lucky Charms Flight
By Steve Graham
Your neighborhood pub might serve bright green beer on St. Patrick’s Day, but a Berthoud brewery is taking it up a notch and also serving purple, orange and red beers for the big day.
For the third year, City Star Brewing will lean into the leprechaun part of the Irish holiday and craft a colorful and “magically delicious” Lucky Charms beer flight. And unlike the pastel breakfast marshmallows (or the green Bud Light, for that matter), there are no artificial dyes or ingredients involved.
“Enjoy tasting the rainbow, sampling exotic brews of varying hues, and … rest assured that all ingredients are natural,” City Star co-owner Whitney Way said.
City Star opened in 2012, when home-brewing enthusiast John Way left his job at Oskar Blues to launch the first craft brewery in Berthoud with his wife, Whitney. The couple still owns and runs the brewery.
“We’ve just kind of stumbled through it,” Whitney said.
The brewery is in a rustic brick building that used to be the City Star livery stable, and the Ways draw on that history for the horseshoe logo and the “Western, historical vibe.”
City Star has five mainstay beers, including an IPA, a stout and a red ale, plus a range of seasonal specialties and barrel-aged offerings on tap. Everyone at the brewery has input on the lineup.
“Anytime our staff has ideas, we try to incorporate that as well,” Whitney said.
Staff members also suggested ingredients for the Lucky Charms flight.
The beers are a surprise each year, but Whitney expects to add butterfly peaflower to a golden lager, which naturally imbues a bright blue or purple hue. Whitney also purchased bee pollen for making a dry-hopped lager, and plans to revive a beet saison that was a taproom hit a few years ago.
Original article source: https://www.thirstcolorado.com/source/2020/3/4/rainbow-of-taste