Pictured is a mug of Prost! beer at the Sutter Buttes Brewery in Yuba City. Prost! won gold at this year's California State Fair Commercial Craft Brew Competition in the category of European Pale Lager. Out of the 163 award winning entries, Prost! was the only beer representing Yuba City and the Sutter County region.

YUBA CITY, CA (MPG) - “Prost” is German for cheers and it's also the name of the newest award-winning lager at Sutter Buttes Brewing in Yuba City.

Scott Sargent, the brewery’s president, submitted the beer, along with two others, to the California State Fair this past spring and learned last month that “Prost!” had won gold in the category of best European Pale Lager. This placement means that Prost! received the highest ratings out of all other entries in its category and Sargent estimated there were at least a dozen competitors.

“This has only been our second time submitting any beers to the state fair and that's pretty much one of the biggest beer competitions in California,” said Sargent.

Prost! is billed as a Munich style lager, a German beer characterized by its golden color and a crisp, refreshing flavor with restrained bitterness. It was brewed locally inside the Sutter Buttes Brewery and tested on its steady base of customers.

“The beer tells the story itself in how it sells and it's our Number One selling beer right now,” Sargent said proudly. “We’re blessed to have some fabulous beer critics in our regular crew. They can be brutally honest about what they think but most of the time the feedback is good.”

Out of the 163 award winning entries, Prost! was the only beer representing Yuba City and the Sutter County region in this year's California State Fair Commercial Craft Brew Competition. Sargent thanks his team at the brewery, along with his friend Christian Pointer who originally helped teach him how to brew.

“We intend to start submitting more and more and we’re super excited,” said Sargent. “It took us some time to really get everything dialed in where we wanted it after we took over the brewery and it wasn't really until the last couple years that we felt we had the product exactly where we wanted it - or at least as close to where we wanted to go with it. To win gold right out the gate is amazing.”