City Star Brewing
Blueberry rhubarb wheat ale brewed with local grown Berthoud rhubarb barrel aged and soured 1 year. Available on tap only.
Sour barrel aged goldenberrt wheat – available on draft only.
Sour Barrel Aged Bergamot Blonde: golden ale aged 10 months in tequila oak barrels with sour bacteria. Finished with Bergamot, an Italian citrus. 6% ABV
Available on draft only
City Star Brewing Releases Biggest Beer of the Year
Outlaw Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
The Berthoud, Colorado brewery’s biggest annual beer release of the year, Outlaw, will be unleashed this weekend. The 2022 vintage of this imperial stout was aged 1 year in Deerhammer Whiskey oak barrels and weighs in at a whopping 12.7% ABV. Flavors of rich chocolate, dark dried fruit, oak, vanilla and of course American whiskey. A rich and creamy mouthfeel leaves you lingering for another pour.
Outlaw will be available on tap for sampling starting at noon on Saturday, February 5th. 400 wax dipped 22oz bottles will be for sale in the taproom ($20/each with a 12 bottle limit per person).
City Star’s Barrel Aging Program
City Star’s Zoller Barrel House is home to 48 oak barrels from wineries and distilleries near and fear. Each barrel is branded with a number for tracking barrel and beer history along with tasting notes. Stainless nails are pulled every 3-6 months to sample the barrel’s contents. The room separates clean and sour barrels. Most barrels age one or two clean beers and then are re-purposed as sour barrels. Occasionally barrels are retired from City Star, but the original barrels #1 and #2, first filled in 2014, are still in-use as some of the preferred City Star sour barrels.
The Zoller Barrel House building was constructed in the early 1900’s. Its current name pays homage to a piece of its history: immigrant Jake Zoller operated the Zoller Shoe Shop in the space from the 1930’s to 1980’s. In 2014 John and Whitney Way purchased the property and remodeled the building to accommodate stacked barrels along each of the long walls. Radiant floor heat was installed to facilitate beer aging and complex sour development year round.
Sour brown ale aged and soured 18 months in Cabernet barrels, finished with tart red cherries. To be released in 22oz bottles and on draft.
Hibiscus Rhubarb Sour – golden strong ale brewed with Berthoud grown rhubarb, aged and soured in oak barrels 16 months, and conditioned on hibiscus flowers. Draft only release (no to-go availability).
Sour raspberry barrel aged brown ale aged in Breckenridge whiskey oak barrels.
Available on tap and in 22oz. bottles to-go.
Scoundrel is the latest release in City Star’s Zoller Barrel Aged Series. This brown ale aged and soured in 4 oak Cabernet barrels for 2 years. Scoundrel was debarreled separately onto raspberries, Madagascar vanilla, and medium roast coffee. Try Scoundrel and all 3 variants at the July 20th taproom release! 1 case limit for Scoundrel and Raspberry Scoundrel. 6 bottle limit for Vanilla Scoundrel and Coffee Scoundrel.
More about the 3 variants…
Red Rasperries from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Madagascar Vanilla by Black Garlic Spice Co. (Loveland, CO)
Medium Roast Coffee by Aspen Street Coffee (Fruita, CO)
Sour Pomegranate Barrel Aged Kölsch. This nice approachable sour is perfect for patio weather and brewery anniversary celebrations (City Star Turns 7!).
She’s back and better than ever!
The newest creation from the City Star Zoller Barrel House – the 2019 vintage of Scarlet is a blend of sour stout aged in oak barrels for 2 years, sour imperial stout aged in oak barrels for 2.5 years, and Michigan Montmorency cherries. Soured with lactobacillus and pediococcus bacteria as well as brettanomyces yeast. The beer has a velvety smooth mouthfeel. Luscious waves of cocoa roll along the tongue, and the cherry sweetness rounds out the sour flavor profile. Each bottle is dipped in wax and hand stamped with the City Star Brewing seal.
22oz. Bottles: $17
On tap for a limited time!