City Star Brewing shifts to taproom focus

BERTHOUD — The owners of City Star Brewing in Berthoud shifted their attention to their taproom at a time when other craft brewers had their sights on distribution.

John and Whitney Way expanded their taproom into the empty business front next door in 2017 after realizing they weren’t making much of a profit distributing their beer to restaurants across the Front Range.

“Running our reports and numbers, we realized we were using a crazy amount of resources, so there was not much of an incentive to continue on that path,” said Whitney, co-founder and owner/operator of City Star…