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Gottberg Brew Pub
Dusters Restaurant
Columbus, Nebraska, United States
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2804 13th Street
PO Box 605
Columbus NE 68601
Telephone: +1 402-562-6488
Hours: Monday-Saturday 11:00am-10:00pm, Sunday 10:30am-2:00pm.
Brewer: Richard Stueven
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Notes

Updated: May 24, 2007

Visited: May 23, 2007

Opened: 1995

Annual Production: 200 bbl

BIAS ALERT: I've been brewing here since May 2005.

Good luck to assistant brewer Jeremy Kirby, who will be attending the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin in 2007!

Beer List

  • 3.50% abv.
    • Date: June 29, 2006 (#6031)
      Package: nitrogenated
      Place: at the brewery
      Score: 18 points
      Appearance (3)
      Black. Thick dense nitro head.
      Aroma (4)
      Coffee, cream, and milk chocolate.
      Mouthfeel (9)
      Light body, creamy. Really roasty and really malty. Nice bitterness from both hops and roasted grain. Kent Goldings hop flavor shows up in the finish.
      Overall Impression (2)

  • 8.40% abv.
    • Date: December 22, 2006 (#6216)
      Package: draught
      Place: at the brewery
      Score: 16 points
      Appearance (3)
      Bright golden, deeper than the All-American Gold. Huge dense head.
      Aroma (3)
      Yeasty, malty, spicy. Mildly alcoholic.
      Mouthfeel (8)
      Medium body, really smooth. Low-moderate fizz. Sweet and malty, with a big yeasty flavor. Lots of fruity fermentation esters and spiciness. Warming. Sweet malty finish.
      Overall Impression (2)

  • Golden or Blonde Ale
    • Date: December 22, 2006 (#6215)
      Package: draught
      Place: at the brewery
      Score: 13 points
      Appearance (3)
      Bright golden. Low carbonation. Low dense head.
      Aroma (2)
      Mild sweet grainy malt. Butter.
      Mouthfeel (7)
      Light body, moderately fizzy. Sweetish grainy malt. Mild diacetyl. Hint of herbal hops.
      Overall Impression (1)

  • American-Style Pilsener
    • Date: December 20, 2005 (#5807)
      Package: draught
      Place: at the brewery
      Score: 17 points
      Appearance (3)
      Pale golden. High carbonation. Moderate head.
      Aroma (3)
      Very very mild malt.
      Mouthfeel (9)
      Light body, fizzy. Malt character is bigger than the body implies. Very very faint hint of noble hop flavor. Clean grainy finish.
      Overall Impression (2)
      Not bad for my first-ever attempt at brewing a light beer.
    • Date: August 12, 2003 (#5066)
      Package: draught
      Place: at the brewery
      Score: 15½ points
      Overall Impression
      Pale golden. Hazy. Thick head. Clean malt aroma, with mild spicy hops. Light body, very fizzy. Sweetly malty with lots of fruity hop flavor.

  • Belgian Style White (or Wit) / Belgian-Style Wheat

  • Bugeater Brown Ale
    English-Style Brown Ale
    4.40% abv.

  • Charles Bremer's Sesquicentennial Ale
    California Common Beer
    4.20% abv.

  • Cow Palace Scotch Ale
    Traditional Strong Scotch Ale
    6.80% abv.

  • Doppelbock (discontinued)
    German-Style Strong Doppelbock

  • Double Gueuze (discontinued)
    Belgian-Style Gueuze Lambic

  • DSB / Dusters Special Bitter
    English-Style (Extra Special) Strong Bitter
    5.60% abv.

  • Eighty-Shilling Scottish Ale (80/-)
    Scottish-Style Export Ale
    5.30% abv.

  • English Brown Ale (discontinued)
    English-Style Brown Ale

  • Fire in the Hole!
    Bamberg-Style Rauchbier

  • Harvey's Märzen
    German-Style Märzen/Oktoberfest
    5.10% abv.

  • Heavenly Helles
    Münchner-Style Helles
    5.30% abv.

  • Impromptu Pale Ale
    American-Style Pale Ale
    5.00% abv.

  • Irish Porter (discontinued)
    Robust Porter

  • Jack of Spades Schwarzbier
    German-Style Schwarzbier
    3.90% abv.

  • Model-A-Tor Doppelbock
    German-Style Strong Doppelbock
    7.40% abv.

  • Octoberfest (discontinued)
    German-Style Märzen/Oktoberfest

  • Old Powerhouse Lager (discontinued)
    American-Style Lager

  • Pioneer Pale Ale (discontinued)
    American-Style Pale Ale

  • Poor Richard's Ale
    Specialty Beer
    7.40% abv.

  • Princess of Darkness Porter
    Robust Porter
    4.60% abv.

  • Rumble Seat Stout (discontinued)
    Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout

  • Stüvenbräu Maibock
    German-Style Heller Bock/Maibock
    6.30% abv.

  • Steinworthy Oktoberfest
    German-Style Märzen/Oktoberfest
    6.00% abv.

  • Tin Lizzie Hefeweizen
    South German-Style Hefeweizen/Hefeweissbier
    5.50% abv.

  • Toil & Trubbel Dubbel
    Belgian-Style Dubbel
    8.10% abv.

  • Uncle Ivan's Dunkelweizen
    South German-Style Dunkel Weizen/Weissbier
    4.90% abv.

  • Wilsteraner Altbier
    German-Style Brown Ale/Düsseldorf-Style Altbier
    5.60% abv.