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Salty Lime Kölsch Release

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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 Joins the Craft Malt Revolution

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Root Shoot Malting and City Star Brewing partnershipCity 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.

Root Shoot Malting and City Star Brewing CollaborationCity 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.
City Star Brewing Craft Malt Certified Brewer

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Salted Pretzel Ale

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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

Beer School: Off Flavors Sensory with Beyers Analytical

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Join us for a special presentation by Kelley Freeman of Beyers Analytical Brewing Sciences.  Taste and learn to identify a handful of common off-flavors. Beyers Analytical is an independent analytical laboratory based out of Fort Collins, CO dedicated to performing chemical measurements for breweries, distilleries, coffee roasteries, etc. Check them out at https://www.beyersanalytical.com/.
 
About Beer School….
Beer School is in session the first Tuesday monthly in City Star Brewing’s Zoller Barrel House; it’s a social group to connect Berthoud area beer enthusiasts with an emphasis on beer ingredients, beer styles and knowledge, home brewing, and any topic that takes you beyond the pint in front of you. Join the Berthoud Beer School Facebook group to connect virtually!
Beer School includes public presentations with unique topics and guest speakers to appeal to beer lovers, home brewers, pro brewers, and even just curious community members. There will be a private homebrew share tasting for those interested at 7:30pm, to follow the presentation.

Chocolate and Beer Pairing

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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.

Beer School: Grimm Brothers + Historical Beers with Aaron Heaton

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Join us for the first Beer School of 2020 to meet Aaron Heaton of Grimm Brothers Brewhouse and discuss historical beer styles.
Aaron Heaton is the co-owner of Grimm Brothers Brewhouse in Loveland Colorado. He began his brewing carrer in 2001 as a homebrewer in North Carolina. He missed the great beers of Colorado and with the limit on NC beers he became active with the pop the cap campaign allowing full strength beers into the state. Aaron continued his professional carrier by attending American Brewers Guild in 2005. He moved back to Colorado and interned at Left Hand Brewery and New Belgium. In 2010, along with Don Chapman, Aaron started Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, the oldest active brewery in Loveland. Grimm Brothers specializes in traditional and non-traditional German style beers and have been wining awards since they started. Aaron also has been judging for BJCP since 2007 and at GABF since 2015.
About Beer School….
Beer School is in session the first Tuesday monthly in City Star Brewing’s Zoller Barrel House; it’s a social group to connect Berthoud area beer enthusiasts with an emphasis on beer ingredients, beer styles and knowledge, home brewing, and any topic that takes you beyond the pint in front of you. Join the Berthoud Beer School Facebook group to connect virtually!
Beer School includes public presentations with unique topics and guest speakers to appeal to beer lovers, home brewers, pro brewers, and even just curious community members. There will be a private homebrew share tasting for those interested at 7:30pm, to follow the presentation.

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.

Mochi and Beer Pairing

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Join us July 27th and 28th 12pm-9pm for a self guided Mochi Ice Cream and Beer Pairing

$16 gets you 4 Mochi Ice Cream expertly paired with 4 Beers (4oz pours). Bring a friend or come solo but don’t miss this fun summer pairing.

Reserve your pairing here.

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Beer Release: Flower Power

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Blood Orange Hibiscus Saison – Belgian rye saison infused with blood oranges and hibiscus flowers. 5.25% ABV

Beer Release: Bet Yer Boots Brut IPA

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A new City Star beer hits the taps this weekend. Bet Yer Boots Brut is a Brut IPA, a champagne-like beer with delicious hop flavor, low bitterness and an extremely dry finish. It was brewed with El Dorado, Amarillo, and Citra hops (whirlpool additions), and then dry hopped with Mosaic hops… a cocktail of tropical hops aroma and flavor to compliment the dry finish at 7% abv. Growlers welcome!

Ohana Eatery Food Truck 3-8pm
Sean Flynn & Don Cleason play the beer garden stage 7-9:30pm