Blogs | Sutter Buttes Brewing | Brewery in Yuba City, CA

Brewsday May 13th 2025

Two weeks ago we announced that our Imperial Stout won silver at the Brewers Cup of California. Moon Sabbat is a big, amazing beer with deep chocolate and coffee notes and a smooth rich finish. While we (and you) have always loved Moon Sabbat, when the last batch was brewed we wondered, “What can we do to make it bigger and better?” The obvious answer was barrel aging. Brewing has a long tradition of barrel aging beer. In fact, storing beer in oak barrels was a common practice much like wine until more modern stainless steel kegs became available. Craft brewers have taken to barrel aging some of their best and hardiest creations in barrels from many different sources including wine and spirit barrels. The trick is picking the right source to complement a beer and bring out its best qualities without overpowering it or changing it too much. For Moon Sabbat we decided to age it in fresh rye whiskey Barrels from Grand Teton Distillery. Rye seemed like the ideal choice as its spiciness and sharpness would be a great compliment for the roundness and smoothness of Moon Sabbat. After four months in the barrels, Moon Sabbat’s big brother “Rye Side of the Moon” has been born! Initial tastings prove that rye was the right choice and we are now in the process of readying Rye Side for bottling. Stay tuned for more information and release date for this very limited offering. In the meantime, come on down to the brewery tonight for $2 brewsday* beers and we will see you on the Rye Side of the Moon soon! Cheers, Scott

(*$2 taster size available for Moon Sabbat) #drinklocalcraftbeer #craftbeer #localbrewery #downtownyubacity

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Brewsday April 29th 2025

This BREWSDAY we are excited to announce that Moon Sabbat was awarded a Silver medal in the prestigious Brewers Cup of California! 🏆 Moon Sabbat placed 2nd in the American Style Strong Ale category. The competition received over 1300 entries from 203 independent craft breweries. Moon Sabbat is a 12.2% Imperial Stout, full of robust flavors of chocolate, cappuccino, and brown sugar. It’s on tap at the brewery and available in 16oz cans. And…we have 100 gallons of Moon Sabbat aging in fresh rye whiskey barrels that will be bottled up soon. Stay tuned!

Brewsday April 15th 2025

It’s Tuesday! That means $2 beers 5pm to close and a BREWSDAY story about our newest creation - the Outlaw Mexican Lager.

A couple of years ago, we had the great pleasure of meeting the extremely talented band The Outlaw Mariachi. They were performing in town and we invited them to come down to the brewery and have lunch. They ended up hanging out with us the entire afternoon before their show. Since then, whenever they are passing through the area, they make a stop and say hello. They are great ambassadors for our brand and can regularly be seen wearing SBB hats in their social media. Because of this incredible relationship with this talented group, we decided to create a beer in their honor - The Outlaw Mexican Lager! This light, crisp lager will be ready just in time for the hot weather and pair perfectly with your favorite spicy foods. While you are waiting, be sure to check out The OutLaw Mariachi! https://www.theoutlawmariachi.com/

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Brewsday April 1st 2025

Tuesday is BREWSDAY! $2 beers 5pm to close. Stop by the taproom and enjoy our wide selection of craft beers.

Today we feature a great collaboration in the works! As the High Wheelers staff and players get ready for their first season in Marysville, we’re proud to start brewing an exclusive High Wheelers Session IPA for the enjoyment of their fans at the ballpark. Can’t wait for opening day! #localbrewery #drinklocalcraftbeer #SupportLocal #baseballseason #craftbeer

Brewsday March 26th 2025

Tuesday is BREWSDAY! This means $2 beers from 5pm to close and a little history about the craft beer brewed at the taproom. Owner and head brewer, Scott, writes: “I started my brewing journey way back in 1992 as a recent graduate from Chico State. Sierra Nevada was the beer of Chico, and my housemate Kevin and I had developed a taste for craft beer. We decided to take a leap and try our hand at homebrewing. We walked into The Homebrew Shop in downtown Chico and announced our desire to brew our own beer. Behind the counter was a guy about our age named Christian Pointer. It was pretty apparent that Christian was quite familiar with proclamations such as ours, and kindly set about collecting the various things we would need for our first brew. I am sure he had little hope that we would ever make any palatable beer, and was likely equally hopeful we wouldn’t ask him to sample it once we made it. Little were either of us to know it at the time, but this was the beginning of a now 37 year partnership of brewing, drinking, and traveling in the pursuit of great beer. Christian has been my brother in brewing from day one and is also part owner of Sutter Buttes Brewing Company. If it had not been for the chance encounter all those years ago, I would no doubt be on a different path and Sutter Buttes Brewing would not exist as it does now. Christian flies down from his home in Seattle once a month to collaborate and brew with me. So raise a glass of your favorite Sutter Buttes’ brew to Christian next time you’re in and say hello if he is here. Prost!”

Brewsday March 18th 2025

Tuesday is BREWSDAY at the Sutter Buttes Brewery restaurant and taproom - enjoy $2 beers from 5pm to close. This week, we'll be brewing another double-batch of Prost! Lager, our best-selling beer since its debut in 2023. Lagers like Prost! take longer than other beer styles to ferment and must be aged for weeks to create the smooth character its fans have come to expect. The process of lagering dates back to the days before refrigeration when Munich breweries would keep their beer in cellars beneath the brewhouse chilled with ice brought down from the nearby Alps. The beer would then cold age (lager) for weeks and sometimes months. This cold aging clarified the beer and gave it the character and balance that has become the trademark of the Munich style lager. Prost! took home the Gold Medal for this beer style in last summer’s CA State Fair Commercial Craft Beer Competition. Tuesdays are the perfect day to #drinklocalcraftbeer!

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Brewsday March 11th 2025

It's BREWSDAY! That means $2 beers 5pm - close and a behind the scenes look at how your favorite brews are made. With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, we're thrilled to announce the return of Riley's Red IPA - the first beer ever brewed at SBB. Over the past few weeks, in one of the large fermenters you see behind the bar, yeast have been converting the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The temperature has been meticulously controlled and daily pH and gravity measurements ensure everything proceeds smoothly. This week Riley's will go through the final steps to get it ready for the first pour on March 16th. At SBB we never filter our beer, which can strip flavor. Instead we use traditional fining methods to achieve clarity. In a few days we'll begin slowly dissolving additional carbon dioxide into the beer and keg it up for your enjoyment! Sláinte! #DrinkLocal #downtownyubacity #brewingscience #craftbeer #localbrewery

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Brewsday March 4th, 2025

It’s almost time for 2-buck BREWSDAY! (5pm to close)

The best brew days run like clockwork! From mash tun to kettle to fermenter, every step is a labor of love and precision and timing are everything. Here’s a little behind the scenes look at today’s brew of Water Tower IPA. It all starts with the mash, where malted barley and other grains meet water at just the right temperature. In time, starch is converted into sugars. The careful work of the brewer leads to just the right amount of fermentable sugar in the solution (called wort). Munich light malt will give Water Tower it’s characteristic color and the sugar content determines its ABV (6.5%). The wort is filtered through the bed of spent grain and the grain is lautered (rinsed) to extract remaining sugars as the clarified wort transfers over to the kettle to be boiled and hopped. Water Tower IPA features 4 hop varieties, including Citra and Idaho 7. (Can you guess the others?) Following the boil, the wort is cooled and sent to a large fermenter (“unitank”) to be pitched with yeast and made into the beer you enjoy. Prost! #craftbeer #localbrewery #SutterButtesBrewing #DrinkLocal #downtownyubacity #brewingscience

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