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City Star Releases 50th Specialty Beer of the Year

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City Star Cans by Emily SierraCity Star Brewing, a small town craft brewery, had a big year of beer! Their New Years Eve beer release marks their 50th specialty beer of the year. Aegir (pronounced eye-ear) is a hazy IPA brewed with Norwegian Kveik yeast and double dry hopped with Citra and Galaxy hops. The Berthoud, Colorado brewery released 50 specialty beers in the year 2021 in addition to their mainstay beers available year round. City Star packaged 570 barrels (17,670 gallons) of beers throughout the year, brewed 100 gallons at a time on a humble 3.5 barrel brew system.

Inspiration for recipes comes from past experiences, staff ideas, culinary influence, industry trends, unique flavors, and available local ingredients.  The majority of City Star’s grain is grown and malted right up the road at Root Shoot Malting. Specialties released were made with a variety of yeasts: German lager and American, Norwegian and Belgian ale yeasts. The 2021 beer line-up featured classic hops as well as new varieties, including Sabro, Cashmere, Talus, Strata, El Dorado.  The most noteworthy hops though are the Centennial hops grown right in the City Star beer garden. They’re handpicked and added fresh to City Star’s Homegrown IPA each fall. City Star’s 2021 specialty beers incorporated many fruit adjuncts: pineapple, cherry, passionfruit, orange, strawberry, tangerine, peach, blackberry, soursop, raspberry, blueberry, watermelon, lime and mango. Vegetables made an appearance too: cucumber, carrot, pumpkin, sandia hot chili peppers, and even locally grown rhubarb.

These fifty specialty beers brewed at City Star Brewing throughout the year included a handful with philanthropic backgrounds. Honey Graham, brewed in memory of Jason Buehler, raised $1,200 for his family. Black is Beautiful blackberry stout was brewed to support equality and justice for people of color and raised $1,000 donated to NAACP. Harley’s Honey Wheat is brewed in honor of Harley’s Dream, a non profit who’s mission is to educate and spread awareness about puppy mills.

The greater Berthoud community has reinforced City Star’s expression, “You keep drinking it, we’ll keep brewing it”. Community support has enabled City Star to keep the fermenters full, and encouraged creativity in brewing. In 2022 City Star Brewing will continue creating craft beers you can hang your hat on.

4 Days of 4 Packs

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We’re celebrating Colorado Craft Beer Week by giving back. Monday – Thursday order a 4 pack of crowlers and receive a FREE BEER token at pick up (3-7pm every day) to be redeemed when the taproom reopens!

BOGO Beer it Forward

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As we continue Colorado Craft Beer Week we want to offer something for YOU. Today get BOGO Beer it Forward Beers! When you buy one “Beer it Forward” online, we’ll add a second beer to the lucky recipient for free! These beers will be redeemed when our taproom reopens…and we won’t even tell if you want to buy yourself a BOGO beer

Beer Release: Galaxy Pale Ale

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American Pale Ale dry hopped with Galaxy hops, imparting tropical fruit and citrus flavors. 6.6%ABV

Available in crowlers, growlers and kegs!

Beer Release: Granatum

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Sour Pomegranate Barrel Aged Kölsch. This nice approachable sour is perfect for patio weather and brewery anniversary celebrations (City Star Turns 7!).

Beer Release: Rocket Fuel

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A special release for Berthoud Under the Stars, City Star’s annual benefit for Little Thompson Observatory. Rocket Fuel is a black IPA double dry hopped with Galaxy hops and glitter. See the galaxy in your glass! No growler fills, 1 keg release.

Beer Release: Raspberry Saison

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A session patio beer to usher in spring. City Star’s Raspberry Saison is Belgian farmhouse ale aged on pressed raspberries from Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

A Beer Dinner Pairing Experience

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We recently got to host an amazing beer dinner pairing with Juli Y Juan Kitchen and wow! What an experience it was. We originally wanted to collaborate with them after we had hosted them for a private celebration last year and we loved the food, energy, passion… EVERYTHING about working with this team. We recreated the magic and can’t wait to have them back again in May!

The 4 course dinner was expertly paired with 4 City Star beers served in our Zoller Barrel House and adjacent Great Room.

Here are some excerpts from Juliu Y Juan’s blog (https://www.juliyjuan.com/blog/2019/2/8/culinary-magic-under-the-city-star-brewery):

Nothing calls more our attention than a new challenge to make magic with new artists. This past January 31st we traveled to Berthoud where we had our first appearance and collaboration with another set of artistic hands in the world of brewing beer. Alongside John & Whitney, owners of City Star Brewing Co., the 4 of us joined passions and performed for 50 happy epicureans, as we share the delightful art of pairing. What an amazing and joyful time!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUST!!
We want to thank everyone who attended this amazing and fun event, thank you very much for your trust and for letting us make magic together!! This will not be the last, we are already brewing and cooking some fun ideas for future appearances, so stay tuned!! =D

THE TEAM
Also we want to thank all the team who made this day possible, it is because of you that we can all have fun and create this amazing events. You guys are the souls and joy of our events and we are forever grateful for your time, patience, love and dedication to our art. Special thanks to Taylor, owner of Mountainside Events for her outstanding job, as well as John Robson, for his amazing photography. Please enjoy the pictures below!!

TO JOHN & WHITNEY
Thank you guys, for allowing us to share our magic at your home. Thank you for opening the doors and sharing your art. Your attention to details, and your presentation of tables and organization is beyond our words. You guys rock, and we look forward to making more magic together in the near future.

Al the Love from Juli and I, and our Kitchen Team.

City Star Releases Biggest Beer Yet

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For Immediate Release:
City Star Brewing Releases Biggest Beer yet: Outlaw Whisky Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, weighing in at 14% abv.

The latest in the City Star Zoller Barrel Aged Series will be released in the City Star taproom Saturday, February 2nd, Outlaw. The 2019 vintage of this imperial stout was aged 1 year in Spirit Hound Distillers whisky oak barrels and weighs in at a whopping 14% abv. Flavors of rich chocolate, toffee, dark dried fruit, oak, vanilla and of course American whiskey. A rich and creamy mouthfeel leaves you lingering for another pour.

A limited supply of orange and vanilla Outlaw variants will be available in bottles for purchase and sampling on Saturday only. Heirloom navel oranges were zested and soaked in Gran Marnier to infuse Outlaw for about 100 bottles. The vanilla variant features a brewhouse made tincture of Madagascar vanilla beans to feature in about 100 bottles.

Outlaw: $18/22oz bottle, $9/10oz on draft, $3.50/4oz tasters (tax included in prices)
Outlaw + Orange: $20/22oz bottle (6 bottle limit), Saturday only: $10/10oz and $4/4oz
Outlaw + Vanilla: $20/22oz bottle (6 bottle limit), Saturday only: $10/10oz and $4/4oz

Catch a glimpse of City Star’s labor intensive bottling process in action early in the day during the release. Interested in 2017 Outlaw? There will be a few bottles in the taproom for some vertical tasting fun!

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