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Upcoming Events

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Damsel Barrel Aged Sour

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A Barrel aged sour with Palisade Peaches. Available in 22oz bottles. Order to-go at citystarpickup.com

Food Truck: Sweaty Moose 12pm.

Poinsettia

Poinsettia Barrel Aged Sour

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A barrel aged sour with cranberries and vanilla. Available in 22oz bottles. Order to-go at citystarpickup.com

Food Truck: Sweaty Moose 12pm

Beer Release: Country Pumpkin

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Fall in Colorado is cued by cooler nights, gold leaves, morning frost and the arrival of Country Pumpkin. This harvest ale is brewed with pumpkin and the perfect balance of autumn spices: cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, nutmeg. Then Country Pumpkin was finished with Madagascar Vanilla.

Beer Release: Happy Mango IPA

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Happy Mango IPA is a juicy American IPA is infused with pureed mango and dry hopped with Citra hops. Juicy, tropical and delicious!

Available on draft and in 16oz. cans.

Galaxy IPA Beer Release

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IPA dry hopped with Galaxy hops, imparting tropical fruit and citrus flavors. 6.2% ABV

Available on draft or 16oz 4 packs to go! You can place your order for pickup starting 7/31 at citystarpickup.com

City Star Brewing Launches Craft Beer in Cans

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Cans were not in the plans for City Star Brewing in 2020. Whenever asked over the past eight years when the Berthoud brewery’s beer would be available in cans the answer was always similar, “Quality canning is a big investment. It’s not part of our current model, and we’re waiting for the saturated craft beer scene to stabilize.” Then COVID-19 ushered in a demand for to-go beer with the mandatory taproom shutdown, and improved packaging became critical. Launching beer in 25oz aluminum crowlers the first week of the shutdown improved City Star’s ability to satisfy curbside customers. Amazing volunteers, affectionately dubbed “the crowler crew”, spent hours weekly pre-filling crowlers to offer the best quality beer in that particular package. It quickly became apparent pre-filling hundreds of crowlers weekly was inefficient and unsustainable in the long run. The search for the right canning line began.

In May City Star purchased a canning line built by Michigan-based MicroCanner from Grand River Brewing Company in Jackson, Michigan. The MC-Flex canning line fills up to 24 cans per minute, including a 6-head filler, automatic pre-rinse, CO2 purge in the can and under the cap, and post-rinse.  Installation and operation at City Star has been smooth, allowing for 4-packs of 16oz cans to roll off the line and sell off the shelves earlier this month.

Cowboy’s Golden Lager and All American IPA are both currently available in 16oz cans, with Bandit Brown, Sim’s Red, and Black is Beautiful launching in cans this Friday, July 3rd. 4-packs are currently only sold through the downtown Berthoud taproom, with no immediate plans to distribute. Cans are a superior packaging option, perfect for camping or summit celebrations. They have a smaller environmental impact than bottles, and most importantly, they limit oxygen and light exposure, ideal for keeping beer fresher and flavorful longer.

As this rollercoaster of a year progresses and concerns of another wave of COVID-19 in Colorado hover, City Star is poised to keep it flowing. The independent small town brewery entered 2020 as a strong, healthy business with incredible community support. The pandemic closed the taproom doors and business declined, but City Star pivoted business models. “We doubled-down on what we love, making and sharing quality craft beer” – Whitney Way, City Star Co-Owner.

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

Chocolate and Beer Pairing

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City Star’s 12th 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 Wednesday, February 14th between 3pm and 9pm. Purchase your pairing in advance at 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.

Winter Solstice Party

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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.

Beer Release: Graham-a Got Run Over By a Reindeer

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A holiday ale brewed with Graham cracker, Colorado clover honey and a hint of cinnamon