Since 2012 we have celebrated American Craft Beer Week with events throughout our distribution area. American Craft Beer Week is the official week that craft beer is celebrated across our nation, and we love taking part in this nationwide celebration.
This year is no different for us. Tuesday night we will be at Flying Saucer in Little Rock with one of the extremely limited kegs of Mule Team, our 3rd Aleiversary Imperial IPA, to share at their #ACBW event. On Thursday night, we will be at Mama Jean’s Market in Springfield (the Sunshine location) at a special craft beer tasting event. To celebrate #ACBW, Mama Jean’s is putting many of their craft beers on sale, too!
Friday and Saturday are our own brainchild for American Craft Beer Week. For us, American Craft Beer Week is about celebrating craft beer that’s brewed in the Ozarks, craft beer that celebrates the Ozarks, and craft beer that’s meant to be consumed in the Ozarks…preferably while enjoying our great outdoors.
American Craft Beer Week–Piney River Style begins Friday night at Dawt Mill in Tecumseh, MO. Join us and some of the Piney River crew for a tap takeover. Old favorites will be available as well as some never before served beers, including at least one special tapping of a cask of a Piney River beer–a Piney Pin. Hobby Farm, our honey basil ale, will make it’s 2014 seasonal debut on Friday night, too.
Dawt Mill is known for their talented chefs, and Chef Ryan Van Winkle is hosting a special “Chef’s Table” dinner in his private kitchen. This Chef’s Table event will feature foods that are paired with Piney River beer, and a member of the Piney River crew will be there to talk with you about our beer and our brewery, too.
The view from the Gravel Bar at Dawt Mill.
On Saturday, you can join Brian, Andy and I on an official Piney River float trip on the North Fork of the White River. We are leaving Dawt at 10 a.m. and plan to put in at Blair Bridge and meander our way back to the gravel bar while sipping on our very own Float Trip Ale. Althea Spring, rainbow trout, cold, clear Ozark water, limestone bluffs and gravel bars make a complete American Craft Beer Week experience when you’re in Piney River Brewing country!
Concert HERE on Saturday night!
Saturday’s fun will be topped off by an 8 p.m. concert at the Gravel Bar with a band we love so much–The Hamburger Cows. Steve Ames, Jeff Sowards & Bo Brown from Springfield will bring original tunes and covers of classic tunes creekside on the North Fork of the White. We expect that general merriment and more Piney pint consumption will ensue.
ALL of these events are open to the public, and we hope to see you in Little Rock, Springfield or at Dawt Mill!
If you are interested in part of the events at Dawt Mill, but cannot attend the entire weekend, please feel free to join us for part of the weekend. The tap takeover on Friday night and the concert on Saturday night are open to everyone, reservations are not required. The Chef’s Table event is open to the public, too, but reservations are required. The dinner spaces are filling quickly. You can bring your own canoe, kayak or tube to Dawt and put in with us on Saturday morning, or join us somewhere along the way and end the afternoon with a Piney Pint at the Gravel Bar after you take out.
I should also add that this is a family-friendly event! We love that we are celebrating craft beer, and we can include our son, Andy, in this weekend. He would be very sad if we did not include him in our stay at Dawt and our float trip!
Lodging is available for one or both nights. Dawt Mill has rooms and cabins available as well as campsites. Registered guests for the weekend package receive special Piney River swag, Piney Pints, discounts on Piney Pints. For additional information or to make a reservation for the Chef’s Table or for lodging at Dawt, contact them at 1-888-884-3298 or 417-284-3540 or dawtmill@dawtmill.com.
Just like the saying on the BARn bar–“Don’t forget to have a good time”–wherever you see Piney River during American Craft Beer Week, we promise you will have a good time!
I’ll close with this photo–Piney River’s official “American Craft Beer Week Selfie”. The Brewer’s Association asked all of us to take selfie featuring someone from the brewery wearing something with a brewery logo, with a bottle or can of our brew in a location that represented the area we brew in. So, in early March, we were driving down to Gaston’s to do an event with the Brew Belles, and we drove past Hodgson Mill, which is VERY well known in our neck of the woods. We stopped to look at the water, and Brian said, “We could do our selfie here.” Perfect idea! Brian grabbed one of the canned beers we brought along for the tasting…little did we know it was a future World Beer Cup Gold winner. Couldn’t be a more perfect way to say, “Cheers!” to American Craft Beer Week 2014!
