BEER CALENDAR | 2018

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC HOWDY WESTERN YEAR-ROUND 4.5% TOWNIE EASY DRINKIN’ IPA YEAR-ROUND 6.2% BACKYARD YEAR-ROUND 5.6% ELKHORN AMBER LAGER YEAR-ROUND 5.5% POST IPA INDIA YEAR-ROUND 7.3% TOP ROPE MEXICAN-STYLE LAGER YEAR-ROUND 5% BIG ROSIE DRY-HOPPED 6.8% BIG JIM BRUNCH 6% OTTER POP PALE ALE 4.3% SKI TAN HOPPY RED LAGER 5.4% HAPPY TIMES HOP BURSTED LIQUOR 6.8% ROOSTER CRUISER IMPERIAL IPA 8.8% THE TOWN TART KETTLE-SOURED WHITE ALE 4.2% SUMMER TEATH SUMMER IPA 4.1% BEER GUIDE THE POST COMPANY

This is Post Beer

ey y’all! Let’s start this out by saying beer is the most amazing drink on earth. It is universally recognized as the official beverage of fun. HAt The Post Brewing Company we revel in the simple  pleasure of having a beer. It’s an experience we want to share with you.

We select the finest ingredients available and skillfully craft them into delicious, balanced and . In the , we’ve done all of the thinking for you so all you have to do is kick back and enjoy!

These are food minded for fun loving folks. Post beers are flavorful and outrageously drinkable and are perfect for pairing with food or great conversation. We’re sure you’ll want to want to put them in your mouth repeatedly… and often! BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY The Brewing Process BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

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Howdy Beer

Beer Style: Western Pilsner ABV: 4.5% Malt: 2 row Hop: CTZ, Palisade Talking Notes: • Refreshed and renewed All American Pilsner • Smooth & drinkable • Lovely American hop flavor and aroma • Delicate malt flavor that finishes crisp There’s no gesture friendlier than and clean greet­ing someone with a “howdy” and Bronze Medal - 2018 GABF - a delicious All-American Pilsner. With American-Style Pilsener Howdy Beer, we’ve taken the notion of the American Pilsner and have Silver Medal - 2014 GABF - refreshed and renewed it as a International/American Pilsner gloriously drinkable cele­bration of our Bronze Medal – 2015 State unique American brewing heritage and Fair – Pilsner amazing American ingredients. This smooth, drinkable pils features a lovely Keywords: Crisp, clean, American hop American hop flavor and aroma which flavor and aroma gives way to a delicate malt flavor that finishes crisp and clean.

Brewer’s Notes: DO NO HARM. Howdy Beer: The refreshing of a TAKE NO GUFF. refreshed tradition. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Townie Ale

Beer Style: Easy Drinkin’ IPA ABV: 6.2% Malt: American 2Row malt, Munich malt Hop: CTZ, Nugget & Centennial Talking Notes: ALE • Amazingly complex hop aroma and flavor • Smooth malt texture Uptown, downtown, east side, west ­side; • Use of Munich malt adds complexity we’re all townies and we all need a beer resulting in a bolder, when we meet. Townie Ale is that beer rounder malt flavor and drier finish. Brewed to 6.2% ABV with American Malt • Dry hopped with Centennia & Nugget and loads of American hops, Townie balances the rough and the smooth with an Bronze Medal 2015 Denver International attitude that is never out of place. This beer Beer delivers an amazing, complex hop aroma Competition - English IPA and flavor with a smooth malt backbone Keywords: well balanced, hop forward, that will leave you wanting more. malty backbone Enjoy a Townie tonight!

Brewer’s Notes: While developing the recipe for Townie Ale, we wanted to make an IPA that was easy to drink, approachable, and would please even the non-IPA beer drinker. By intentionally leaving some residual malt sweetness and hopping an appropriate amount, we have achieved an IPA that is balanced, aromatic, nuanced, and appealing to all beer drinkers. It is truly an easy drinkin’ IPA. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Backyard Saison BACKYARD Beer Style: Farmhouse Ale ABV: 5.6% SAISON Malt: American 2-row Barley Malt, Rye Malt, Wheat Malt Hop: CTZ, Pekko, Sterling, Willamette Talking Notes: • Bright flavor and aroma • French Saison yeast lends subtle fruit and spice flavors • Hop blend of Pekko, Sterling, and Willamette deliver citrus, pepper flavor • Finishes dry, crisp, and refreshing Gold Medal - 2016 GABF- Classic SaisonTop 12 Best Newly Packaged Beers of 2016 - Backyard Season is beer Westword drinking season. Backyard Keywords: Bright, dry, complex aroma & Saison is the perfect beer flavor for backyard beer drinking. Inspired by the delicious farmhouse ales of Belgium and Brewer’s Notes: Our original brewmaster at Holland, this beer is a fragrant The Post spent a small chunk of his youth reminder that life is better living in Belgium, and this beer was a nod outside. to the Farmhouse Ales of that region. It was made as a spring seasonal, but when it Brewed to 5.6% ABV with won gold at GABF in 2016, and due to it’s barley, wheat and rye , undeniable deliciousness and pair ability, it this hazy golden ale is spiced has quickly become a year round mainstay. with three distinct American This beer is everything you want a saison hop varieties for a floral and to be. Bright and refreshing, with a lot of fruity aroma. French ale yeast complex flavors, all of which are contained. provides delicious fruit and spice notes and brings the Subtlety is the name of the game here. beer to a dry and mildly tart Starting the fermentation temperature lower refreshing finish. (62F) and letting it free rise up to the 70’s (sometimes low 80’s) creates full ester and phenol production from the yeast, while containing the flavors so they aren’t over bearing. Simple yet complex. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

Brewer’s Notes: This beer Elkhorn Lager started it’s life in the tank as a dark version of Top Rope. Think ‘Negra Modello’. By the time it hit taps, Beer Style: Amber Lager we were calling it a Dark American ABV: 5.5% Lager. It can also be described as Malt: 2 row, dark crystal and Munich an Amber (I could delve into the whole memory spiel again if you malt, perla negra, flaked (but would like me to). The nice, toasty you call it corn) flavors of the malt and the crisp, Hop: CTZ and Sterling clean lager characteristics makes Elkhorn a beer that can span many Beer Style: Amber Lager different beer styles. Talking Notes: • Deep, toasty malt flavor, with a Crystal clear, rich mahogany in color sitting frothy head under a white cap of foam, Elk­ horn Lager invites you in for a whiff and a sip of deep, • Elegant spicy & herbal hop notes toasty malt flavor and aroma accented by • Great balance of malt body and herbal, spicy hop notes. This Amber Lager is mild hop bitterness brewed from 2-row barley malt, dark crystal malt, Munich malt and flaked maize building a Long cold aging makes it • complex malt base that is easy to get into and incredibly drinkable fits like a glove. Elkhorn Lager is spiced with a Keywords: Well balanced, malt generous portion of Sterling hops de ­livering forward, herbal hop aroma,easy peppery, floral sensations. Long, cold aging drinking. makes for wicked smooth drinkability making this lager the official lager of drinking

Since ancient times Los Luchadores El Corn Lager have battled in rings across all of Interesting backstory on this beer! Back Mexico. Intense rivalries persisted over when we were perfecting Top Rope generations, but none so strong as Mexican-Style Lager, we thought about the one that developed between the how great it would be to have a darker two estranged brothers Manuel and version; our answer to Negra Modelo. Luis Navarra, originally known in the Always marketed as Elkhorn Lager, we ring as Los Dos Bros. No one knows created this beer to fill that niche. Soon exactly what came between them, but after naming it, and due to the presence the matches that ensued have become of maize in the mash bill, we mused the stuff of legend. Known for his about how great it would be to have signature move of launching off of the called Elkhorn, "El Corn", but opted for Top Rope of the ring at his opponents, the former due to its connection to the Manuel (El Fresco) and his Brother Post Brand. (The Elkhorn Room was (El Corn) have been deadlocked for the first liquor licensed establishment in decades, neither being able to gain Lafayette.) advantage over the other. In a conflict as old as time, good vs. evil, light vs. Now, with the desire from our Latin- dark, who will reign supreme? That is themed restaurants to pour this beer, the for you to decide. Enjoy them both, we whole story can, and should be told. certainly do. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

POST IPA

Beer Style: ABV: 7.3% Malt: 2-row, Light & Dark Crystal Malt Hops: CTZ, Centennial, Azacca, Sterling, Cascade Yeast: Ale Keywords: tropical, balanced, classic

Brewer’s Notes: This IPA has had many names throughout it’s history: Post IPA, F’n Right, 1771. Maybe we will give it a different name every year. Keep everyone on their toes. Throughout all of these names, this IPA has remained the same recipe wise. We specifically chose this hop blend for all of the different flavors each hop brings to the table: Centennial & Cascade bring the POST IPA is a classic American IPA, generously hopped with a blend classic American IPA citrus and fruitiness, of Azacca, Sterling, Cascade, and the Azacca brings tropical fruit as well as Centennial, creating an ever-changing grassy flavor, and the Sterling contributes array of tropical, citrus, and herbal herbacious and earthy flavor. All of this flavor and aroma, with a strong malt base to back it up. Brewed to 7.3% ABV, combined, with a solid malt base, makes for Post IPA is appropriately , and complex hoppiness and balance. Classic IPA. inappropriately delicious. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Top Rope

Beer Style: Mexican-Style Lager ABV: 5% Malt: American 2-Row Barley Malt, Light Crystal Malt, Flaked Maize Hop: CTZ and Sterling Talking Notes: • Flaked maize lends a subtle sweetness • Dry, crisp, clean lager flavor and finish • Sterling hops lend gentle herbacious aromas Brewed with refreshment in mind,Top • The official beer of refreshment Rope Mexican-Style Lager flips into Bronze Medal - 2016 US Open Beer the ring with a crisp malt flavor and an • herbal hop aroma. Top Rope finishes • Championship - Premium American with a clean three count, squashing Lager thirst and leading into the next match- Keywords: Crisp, refreshing up. Unmasked with nothing to hide, Top Rope will unleash your inner luchador.

Brewer’s Notes: Top Rope is the longest and barrel aged beer, followed standing Big Red F beer brand. Pretty by fruited IPA’s, and with the most recent sure when I moved to Colorado 8 years fad, the hazy, NE style IPA following ago, it was the first beer I had, not after that. Now we find ourselves in a knowing I would be brewing it years later. renaissance of light, crushable lagers, one At that time, our friends at Upslope were made by every brewery large and small, making it for us. When The Post Brewing and most of those being their best sellers. Co. was born in early 2014, the recipe was We all knew DQ is a trend setter…..I mean, changed to make it more delicious, and have you ever seen the guy dance? Dude it has been produced in large amounts invented the Harlem Shake. While drinking ever since. Our dearest DQ was on to a Top Rope. something back then. At the time, beer trends were owned by IPA, followed by BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Big Rosie

Beer Style: Dry Hopped Porter ABV: 6.8% Malt: 2Row, Dark Crystal, Chocolate, Black, Torrefied Wheat Hop: CTZ, Cascade, Willamette Talking Notes: • Big flavor in a silky smooth porter • Brewed with chocolate and black malts, Rosie features a complex roasty character redolent of bittersweet chocolate and fresh ground coffee • Unique citrussy aroma derived from a Named for our benevolent taxidermy healthy dose of Cascade and Willamette elk head, Big Rosie delivers big flavor dry hops. in a silky smooth porter. Brewed with chocolate and black malts, Rosie Keywords: Roasty chocolate malt, citrusy features a complex roasty character hop aroma, smooth redolent of bitter-sweet chocolate and fresh ground coffee contrasted Brewer’s Notes: Big Rosie was the second by a unique citrusy aroma derived beer ever produced by The Post Brewing from a healthy dose of Cascade and Co. at our Lafayette location in 2014. Want Willamette dry hops. At a hefty 6.8% ABV, Big Rosie will sneak up on you to know a trick to get people to drink mass disguised instunning drinkability. amounts of dark beer, both in winter and in summer? Make it insanely drinkable. It’s that simple. Big malt character, with the appropriate amount of hop bitterness, flavor, and aroma to balance it all out. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

Big Jim

Beer Style: Brunch Stout ABV: 6% Malt: 2-row, Roasted Barley, Chocolate, Dark Crystal, Torrified Wheat Hops: CTZ, Willamette Yeast: Ale Keywords: Roasty, Mocha, Rich

Brewer’s Notes: This beer is something I’ve wanted to make since we released our Imperial Stout in early 2017. The rich flavor of the dark crystal malt is what drove the formation of that beer, it can have a big We have a pretty outstanding brunch toasted marshmallow/maple flavor to it, here at the Post, and it’s about time and all of those flavors are what I really like we have an official brunch beer. Big Jim Brunch Stout clocks in at an in a stout. I wanted a beer that would be appropriate 6%ABV, making it the a go to for anyone enjoying our brunch, perfect pair for all of your brunch fare. Brewed with 2-row, roasted barley, so providing those rich, sweeter flavors, as chocolate malt, and dark crystal malt, well as the full body, play really well in the this stout unfolds with rich chocolate, morning/afternoon, as well as in maple, and coffee flavors, while the Willamette hops balance the sweetness the evening. and adds a subtle spice.

Good news! Big Jim Brunch Stout is also good at not Brunch! Enjoy anytime! BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Otter Pop

Beer Style: Pale Ale ABV: 4.3% Malt: British Maris Otter, Dark Crystal Hop: Experimental Hop Yeast: Ale

Brewer’s Notes: My favorite style of beer is one that I can drink mass quantities of. Doesn’t matter if it’s hop forward, malt forward, yeast forward, light, dark, I don’t PALE ALE care. As long as it is balanced and insanely 4.3% ABV drinkable, that is what I want. As the first beer I brewed here (and all, really), that is what I wanted to capture. Low ABV, This easy drinkin’ ale is packed with something you can drink with food, drink British Maris Otter malt for that classic biscuity malt goodness, and a new, with friends, not think too much about it. I experimental hop counters the bready wanted a beer that could be enjoyed by malt character with peach, apricot, and someone who would dissect it’s quality, and floral hop aroma and flavor, finishing also by someone who doesn’t think about balanced and dry. At 4.3% ABV, this is the perfect companion to drinking with that stuff. A beer to drink when you go to your companions. Pair this beer with the pub, socialize with your friends, eat fried chicken, fish fry, or just drink it some food, and enjoy life while telling a good story. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

Ski Tan

Beer Style: Hoppy Red Lager ABV: 5.4% Malt: 2-row, Munich malt, Red Rye Crystal Malt Hops: CTZ, Azacca, Palisade Yeast: Lager Keywords: Balanced, Tropical, Citrus

Brewer’s Notes: Ski Tan for me is the perfect marriage of malt and hops. Hop forward beers are very distinct, as are Malt forward beers. When you take both of those core ingredients, and let both of them speak loudly in a beer, they can sometimes contrast one another. I wanted to achieve Ski season is now upon us, so embrace a full bodied, chewy, bready, malt character, the sunburn and enjoy a Ski Tan! and compliment that with juicy hop flavor Built on a base of 2 Row, Munich, and aroma. This beer’s availability ties in and Rye Crystal malts, Ski Tan is with the Colorado ski season, so you will see appropriately hopped with Azacca & Palisade hops, which evoke juicy it emerge in the Fall, and we bid it addue in tropical & citrus fruits, balanced by epic fashion in the Spring. the full bodied malt character that is perfect for the slopes. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

Happy Times

Beer Style: Hop Bursted Malt Liquor ABV: 6.8% Malt: 2-row Barley Malt, Flaked Maize (Corn) Hops: Pekko Yeast: Lager Keywords: Clean, Crisp & Dry, Intense Hop Aroma & Flavor, Tropical, Herbal

Brewer’s Notes: Malt Liquor = Strong Corn Lager. It’s as simple as that. Non- traditionally, we decided to go very heavy handed on the Pekko hops on this one, most of the hop load is added at the end of the boil and dry hopping, making this This classically inspired malt liquor bursting with herbal and tropical hop flavor is brewed from the finest American 2-row barley malt and flaked maize. and aroma. If it makes more sense, you can We’ve used some aggressive, modern think of this as a dry, West Coast-Style India hopping techniques to impart a singular intensity of hop character . Malt Liquor is more fun which showcases the Pekko variety rich to say though. in grapefruit, pineapple, mint and sage aroma and flavor. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Rooster Cruiser

Beer Style: Imperial India Pale Ale ABV: 8.8% Malt: American 2-row barley Hop: CTZ, Azacca, Pekko Talking Notes: • Sumptuous, curvaceous, tempting • All-malt double IPA with biscuity goodness • Heavily dry hopped delivering strong herbal and lemon aromas, with a hint of pine Keywords: American double IPA, Heavily dry hopped, strong hop aromas Big and marvelously excessive, Rooster Brewer’s Notes: When brewing an Cruiser Imperial IPA delivers a face load Imperial IPA (or any imperial beer for of flavor payload. Built on a 19.2°Plato that matter), there is only one thing that all-malt base from just Montana grown 2-row barley malt. We stuff this bad needs to be achieved in order for it to boy with a criminally inefficient amount be a great beer: BALANCE. An Imperial of Pekko and Azacca hops all the way IPA can very easily be too sweet due to from the kettle to dry-hopping in the the amount of malt used, overly hoppy fermenter. Better blow by that weigh and bitter, and often times too boozy, station, big trucker! because with a higher content, the boozy, alcohol taste can present Rooster Cruiser lets you know it’s itself more easily. The trick is to make coming delivering a blast of deep all of the ingredients in the beer work tropical and herbal hop aroma harmoniously together, and that is what supported by a whiff of ale-fruit and is achieved with Rooster Cruiser. Intense malt. Grapefruit, pine and mango fill your mouth leading to a rich bittersweet finish tropical hop flavor and aroma from Pekko that arrives right on time. and Azacca hops, a clean bitterness, and a sturdy malt base to balance, all without Be sure to enjoy a the faintest detection of an ‘alcohol’ little Rooster Cruiser a lot! flavor, making this 8.8% abv beer drink like it is 5.8% abv. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

The Town Tart

Beer Style: Kettle-Soured Wheat Ale ABV: 4.2% Malt: 2-row, Unmalted Wheat, Flaked Oats Hops: Sterling, Palisade Yeast: French Ale Other: Lactobacillus, White Tea, Jasmine Flowers, Rose Petals Keywords: Tart, Floral, Thirst Quenching

Brewer’s Notes: Along with the Summer Teath, this is a beer we have been producing during the Summer months for the past few Tart complexity marries with pillowy malt in an ale brewed from Montana years, to rave reviews. You don’t have to grown 2-row barley malt, oats and a think too much about this one, even though huge amount of raw Boulder-county there is a lot going on in it’s production. We grown wheat. The Town Tart is soured wanted a refreshing sour beer, but still want- to 1.0009% total acidity in the kettle with a single strain of Lactobacillus with ed it to be drinkable, food pairable, and pal- the final fermentation completed by atable, in true Post fashion. We easily could a strain of ale yeast from France. This have overly soured this and had it taste like puckeringly refreshing palate pleaser a blue warhead, making it good for one, but is flavored with white tea, jasmine flowers and rose petals which deftly not for many. We like to make beers that deliver their subtle herb and perfume are good for many. nuances to a beer that’s ready made for sophisticated enjoyment BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

Summer Teath

Beer Style: Summer IPA ABV: 4.1% Malt: 2-row, Red Wheat Malt, Light Crystal Malt Hops: CTZ, Pekko, Azacca Yeast: Ale Other: Pekoe Sip House Sunny Green Tea Keywords: Tropical, Astringent, Refreshing

Brewer’s Notes: This is a beer we have made the past few Summer’s, and it is a cult favorite with the staff and with the customers at our Lafayette location. This beer is the epitome of refreshing. It’s like drinking an iced tea. Wouldn’t want Summer Teath is a 4.1% ABV summer anything else on a hot day. The wheat in the IPA brewed with American 2-row grain bill gives it full body and malt flavor, barley malt, red wheat malt and light crystal malt and fermented with our the Pekko and Azacca hops both lend a house ale yeast. It’s well hopped in ton of tropical fruit flavor, but the real star the kettle and in the fermenter with a blend of two dwarf hop varieties called is the Tea. It makes the beer. The tea itself Azacca and Pekko which offer intense intensifies the tropical flavor and aroma, and tropical, citrus and herbal aromas. This adds some herbal flavors as well. Putting is complimented by a kettle addition of Sunny Green Tea from Boulder’s Pekoe the tea in with ten minutes left in the Sip House. This is a tea blend that boil, and giving it extended contact time features dried papaya and pineapple whose aromas shine through along extracts the tannins, giving Summer Teath with the hops while the tea delivers it’s patented astringency, dryness, an herbal flavor and gently astringent and refreshment. mouthfeel which evokes the sensation of sipping on iced tea. It’s dry, light bodied and utterly refreshing. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY Glossary of Beer Terminology

Ale Hops Ales are beers fermented with top A perennial climbing bine, also fermenting ale yeast (Saccharomyces known by the Latin botanical name cerevisiae). Ales typically are fermented Humulus lupulus. The female plant at warmer temperatures than lagers yields flowers of soft-leaved pine-like (60-70 F). Ale yeast generally produces cones (strobile) measuring about an more flavor compounds. The term ale is inch in length. Hops are added at the sometimes incorrectly associated with beginning (bittering hops), middle alcoholic strength. (flavoring hops), and end (aroma hops) of the boiling stage, or even later in Lager the brewing process (dry hops). The Lagers are any beer that is fermented bitterness and many flavors come from with bottom-fermenting lager yeast a small gland inside the hop flower (Saccharomyces pastorianus) at colder known as the Lupulin Gland. temperatures (45-55 F). Lagers are most often associated with crisp, clean Dry Hopping flavor. The word lager is German for The addition of hops to beer during “to store” and refers to the German primary or secondary fermentation or practice of storing beer in caves while even later in the process. This provides waiting to be served. an increased hop flavor and aroma.

Malt Cask Processed barley or other cereal grain Traditional English style of serving (i.e. wheat, oat) that has been steeped beer. These beers undergo a second in water, germinated on malting floors fermentation to create a lower or in germination boxes or drums, and carbonation level and are served at later dried in kilns for the purpose warmer temperatures (48-52 F). These of stopping the germination and beers are considered to be living ales converting the insoluble starch in barley because they are not filtered and the to the soluble substances and in yeast is still slow, but active. malt.

Adjunct Any unmalted grain or other fermentable ingredient used in the brewing process. Common used are typically either rice or corn, and can also include honey, syrups, and numerous other sources of fermentable carbohydrates. Spices which contribute little fermentation , but add flavor are sometimes also called adjuncts. BEER GUIDE THE POST BREWING COMPANY

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