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Two brewers (husband and wife), one big old barn, one river located just down the hill below the barn and an idea for something that may be a little work that leads to a lot more fun.
Sometimes It’s Good to Be High Beer Events

Sometimes It’s Good to Be High

We've been practicing...staying up late, drinking something with a big ABV every night, pushing ourselves in anticipation of a trip to Denver, Colorado. Denver has been good to us.  We took home a gold for Old Tom Porter at Great American Beer Festival in Denver.  We took home gold for Float Trip Ale at the World Beer Cup in Denver.  We always find our way to Star Bar,  Euclid Hall, Rioja, and Acorn when we're in Denver.  Our friends at New Belgium and other breweries in the area welcome beer family with open arms.  The Mile High City is always a…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 3, 2017
Aux Arcs Saison—Beautiful Beer for a Beautiful Place The Beer

Aux Arcs Saison—Beautiful Beer for a Beautiful Place

It’s not uncommon when Brian and I are driving around Missouri that we will top a hill or round a bend and marvel at the “classic Ozarks” vista—rolling hills and trees as far as the eye can see. Sometimes the sun is setting in the hills, sometimes it’s rising. Sometimes fog is obscuring the depths of the hollows. There are bluffs.  There are rivers.  There are waterfalls.  It’s always breathtaking. The first Europeans to venture in our hills centuries ago were French surveyors, and they aptly called this area Aux Arcs, French for “to the top arc”. Pronounced “Ozark”, the centuries…
Piney River Brewing Company
September 14, 2017
Winning Never Gets Old! Gold and Silver Medals at the US Open Beer Championship The Beer

Winning Never Gets Old! Gold and Silver Medals at the US Open Beer Championship

Piney River Brewing recently won two medals at the US Open Beer Championship, a gold medal for Float Trip Ale and a silver medal for Black Walnut Wheat. The US Open Beer Championship is held annually in Oxford, OH. This year, over 6,000 beers from around the world were entered in 100 different beer style categories. The contest is open to professional brewers and home brewers. US Open judges hail from England, Canada and the US. Float Trip Ale won in the “American Wheat Light” category. This wheat-based blonde is pale yellow in color with a light hop bitterness and…
Piney River Brewing Company
August 2, 2017
Let There Be Lagers…By Piney River The Beer

Let There Be Lagers…By Piney River

There are a lot of things that our new brewery has enabled us to do besides make larger quantities of beer at one time. With our new space, we have the additional fermentation tank space to try some things that we have never done in our professional brewing history. Making lagers is one of those things. There are basically two different types of beer—ale and lager. What determines if a beer is an ale or a lager is based on the yeast and the way the beer ferments. The yeast in an ale ferments on top of the beer at…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 27, 2017
How to Celebrate 6 Years of Making Beer on a Farm in the Ozarks Beer Events

How to Celebrate 6 Years of Making Beer on a Farm in the Ozarks

Anybody up for a 6th Aleiversary? We moved our Aleiversary celebration to the last weekend in March this year in order to better accommodate the schedules of our distributor and retail partners. We wanted them to be able to join us in celebrating instead of being up to their eyeballs in St. Patrick’s Day revelry, and it worked! Brian and I hosted almost 100 retail and distribution partners at the BARn for the Aleiversary. Even better—over 600 of our friends and fans and Ozarks craft beer lovers came out for our big day on Saturday. And many of you also joined…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 30, 2017
What to Know Before You Raise a Pint at the 6th Aleiversary Beer Events

What to Know Before You Raise a Pint at the 6th Aleiversary

First and foremost, we will be celebrating with Piney River beer all weekend long–Friday from 2 to 9 p.m., Saturday from 12 to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. We will not have food trucks on Friday or Sunday, but we just started offering pizza in the BARn. So, if you want a pizza with your beer, have our staff whip one up for you. Do you need a place to stay this weekend? Check out the variety of places in our area under "local info". Boiling Springs Resort in Licking has camping and RV hook ups…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 22, 2017
Sixth Aleiversary Coming Up! You’re Gonna Be Here, Right? Beer EventsThe BARnThe Beer

Sixth Aleiversary Coming Up! You’re Gonna Be Here, Right?

Piney River Brewing Company is celebrating their sixth anniversary on Sat., Mar. 25th at the brewery in Bucyrus. The “6th Aleiversary” party will be held at the BARn—the brewery and tap room located off Junction ZZ—from 12 to 7 p.m. “Once again, we are looking forward to enjoying a beautiful spring day in the Ozarks at our upcoming Aleiversary,” Joleen Durham, co-founder and owner, said. Durham described the Aleiversary as “the biggest event in Bucyrus”. Each spring hundreds of people from across the region visit the Piney River Farm for the Aleiversary. “The event is family-friendly, and there is no charge…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 8, 2017
We Need Another Brewer for Our Team The Beer

We Need Another Brewer for Our Team

Since Piney River Brewing Company was founded in 2010, we have dedicated ourselves to brewing high quality, handcrafted beers that celebrate the Ozarks. We are an independent family-owned farm brewery located in South Central Missouri. Every day presents new challenges and opportunities in our small business, and we seek imaginative and innovative people that are passionate about craft beer to join our award-winning brewery team.  You could be the lucky person that gets to work here: Our brewery and tap room. One of our 30 bbl Foeders Part of our barrel aging program. Our brewhouse And play with us in…
Piney River Brewing Company
February 20, 2017
Raise a Ruckus with Us Beer EventsThe BARnThe Beer

Raise a Ruckus with Us

Anybody up for a little Raise A Ruckus? Anybody out there interested in raising a ruckus with us? Let's do it next week!  Because Raise A Ruckus, our imperial stout will be out next week, and it's delicious. We also think it's ruckus worthy. Here's the story. Last year we brewed up our first imperial stout with KC homebrewer Michael Wells. The beer was delicious and a big hit in our tap room and in the retail accounts where we were able to place some kegs of the beer.  As we were planning for our 2017 production schedule, Brian and I knew that…
Piney River Brewing Company
January 25, 2017
Piney River Flows Through Kansas City Beer EventsThe Beer

Piney River Flows Through Kansas City

The Big Piney River in Texas County is a wild and a wonderful place.  We are lucky enough that we live here.  When we're not working, we love to sneak away to this river for a day or a couple of hours.  We truly believe that everyone should be able to experience a glorious day on an Ozarks stream.  So please put a day on the Big Piney on your bucket list. The Big Piney River--October 2016 Until the day comes that you find yourself on our river, we're doing our best to bring a little bit of the river to…
Piney River Brewing Company
November 29, 2016
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