City Star Brewing
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!
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
American Kölsch brewed with sea salt and finished with lime puree hits the taproom today! We want you all to be able to pretend you’re somewhere on a beach and since we can’t officially have a beach day party we are encouraging your best beach/island attire when you come to pick up!
City Star Brewing, Berthoud’s small town brewery is one of the first Colorado breweries to join the Craft Maltsters Guild. The Guild is a grassroots movement in today’s malting industry dedicated to promoting and sustaining the burgeoning craft malt tradition across North America. Small-batch, independent maltsters are coming together, in a rising tide to bring heart, diversity, relocalization, and excitement to the marketplace.
Joining the Craft Maltsters guild was originally inspired by City Star’s partnership with local malthouse, Root Shoot Malting. The two local businesses were brought together in 2016, when City Star crafted Local Yokel, all-Colorado ingredient pale ale that led City Star brewers to work with the then newly established Root Shoot Malting. The fifth generation farmers had just kilned their first batch of barley in their state-of-the-art malting facility. The Olander family had been growing quality barley for decades, but craft malting was a new venture. Since that first collaboration brew City Star has moved to use Root Shoot’s Genie Pale Malt as the base malt for all ales in addition to brewing with various specialty malts.
City Star is committed to craft and quality from grain to glass. This means an emphasis on quality ingredients and where they come from. The brewery is supporting local farmers and community plus using a quality product that incorporates the Northern Colorado terroir. City Star’s carbon footprint is lowered by using barley grown and malted right in its backyard.
Root Shoot is “Saving Farms One Beer at a Time” and City Star is proud to play its role. Frankly, brewing with craft malt is an easy business decision. City Star Brewing and the Root Shoot family have forged a strong friendship. Northern Colorado communities and the greater craft beer scene reap the benefits of this partnership. As one of Root Shoot’s first brewery partners, City Star is excited to support our local maltsters, the Craft Maltsters Guild, and the greater craft malt movement.
Who’s ready for a fresh new beer?! We’re tapping our Salted Pretzel Ale today at noon. This malt forward amber ale has a strong toasty aroma with a biscuit, caramel flavor and finishes with a hint of lingering salt. It drinks like an English Mild with a bowl of pretzels all rolled into one sip!
Live Music: Jeremy Mohney Trio 7-9:30pm
We serve Asian street food and inspired cuisine from our kawaii truck.
We hail from Baltimore but consider Longmont our home. We love the community, the people and the beer! When we first met, Brooks was a chef in Baltimore and April was in the wine industry. April had studied abroad in Japan while in college and Brooks loved Anime, Ramen and most things Japanese.
After moving to Colorado and landing pretty fast in Longmont we talked about doing a large trip abroad. Japan HAD to be on the list, also Southeast Asia for its accessibility, relative inexpensiveness and all around deliciousness. We ended up in Asia for 3+ months traveling to Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Malaysia. Realizing how broad the food scene is out there and how little we actually see of the different styles here in the states, we decided it would be cool to bring some of that back with us.
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FOOD TRUCK
Menu will change seasonally as we work our way through Southeast and East Asia.
Sample:
ONIGIRI $4 – stuffed rice balls (come see us at the truck for today’s filling choices as they change frequently!)
GAIJIN OKONOMIYAKI $12 – Savory Japanese pancake with: Bacon, Napa cabbage & Scallions, Katsubushi, Okonomi sauce, Kewpie mayo
SPICY KOREAN OKONOMIYAKI $14 – Gaijin okonomiyaki with the additions of: Kimchi, Sesame seed, Korean chili flake, Spicy sauce
BREAKFAST FOR DINNER OKONOMIYAKI $15 – Gaijin okonomiyaki with the additions of: Extra Bacon, Fried egg, American cheese
JAPANESE BEEF CURRY $12 – Beef, potatoes, onions and carrots stewed in a rich mild curry broth, Served with fukujinzuke and rice
LAOS STYLE BAR NUTS $5 – Roasted peanuts with kaffir lime, lemongrass and garlic
Sour raspberry barrel aged brown ale aged in whiskey oak barrels.
Available on tap and in 22oz. bottles to-go.
City Star’s 14th Annual Valentine’s Day Chocolate and Beer Pairing will feature 5 chocolates expertly paired with 5 beers (4oz pours). Self-guided pairing, share or enjoy solo anytime Saturday, February 14th between 12pm and 9pm. Purchase your pairing in advance citystarpickup.com. Your $30 advance purchase ticket includes 20% gratuity for 2/14 event staff (please don’t add tip in online checkout). Pairings are limited and we do expect them to sell out before 2/14.
This December 21st, the darkest day of the year, we celebrate the Winter Solstice at City Star Brewing with the release of our darkest beer of the year. Widow Maker is a colossal Imperial Stout, to be released on draft and in bottles alongside coconut and coffee decaf variants. This nod to the Winter Solstice boasts a big, bold and complex flavor profile. Smooth, rich and ready to sip and savor. Not for the faint hearted.
Happenings of this evening include free live music, henna tattoos, night sky telescope viewing with the Little Thompson Observatory, flower crowns, photo booth by Phobia Entertainment, Cirque Kitchen food truck, tarot card readings with Mary D’Agostino, and there will be a limited amount of commemorative glassware available.
The Solstice is a celebration of the return of the Light. It is indeed the twenty four hour period when the day-time or light is shortest and the night is longest, but the very next day is when the daytime starts to become longer! This brings hope and light for better things to come, along with our dreams, and hopes for love and all good things “coming to light”. Bringing out, love, inspiration and joy are always the basis of my readings, with positive insights, blessings and wisdom thrown in for good measure.
We look forward to hosting this second annual event and celebrating the return of the light with good friends, great beer and fun activities. Festivities begin at 6pm with free entry in our downtown Berthoud taproom.
A holiday ale brewed with Graham cracker, Colorado clover honey and a hint of cinnamon