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Oktoberfest in the Ozarks Beer Events

Oktoberfest in the Ozarks

This fall we had our first real experience as a brewery during Oktoberfest. It seems like many, many, MANY moons ago, but this time last year we had just brewed our first batch on the big system. We still weren’t keeping the taproom open every Saturday because we couldn’t make enough beer. Fast-forward 11 months. With Piney River beer in many locations throughout the Ozarks, we had many requests for events, many related to Oktoberfest. As I kept adding events to the brewery calendar, Brian and I looked on September and October with some trepidation. We wanted to make sure…
Piney River Brewing Company
November 5, 2012
Craft Beer Lake Ozark Style Beer Events

Craft Beer Lake Ozark Style

We received a few flyers about the Midwest Wine and Brew Fest in Lake Ozark a couple of weeks ago. There were several wineries listed on the flyer, but there was only one brewery. Yes. You guessed it. Piney River Brewing. Really? The only brewery? No competition for craft beer lovers? Seriously? Alright! We knew we were going to rock the festival. The festival was in a large, spacious, carpeted room. We had three full size skirted tables to spread ourselves out on. There were silver trays with little packages of palate cleansing crackers and silver dump buckets. (I left…
Piney River Brewing Company
August 14, 2012
Hello Arkansas! May We Introduce Craft Beer from the Ozarks? Beer EventsThe Beer

Hello Arkansas! May We Introduce Craft Beer from the Ozarks?

Last year, when Piney River Brewing was still a mere nanobrewery, we were contacted by a craft beer loving salesman, James Denoyer, from Glidewell Distributing in Arkansas.  James expressed his eagerness to have Piney River beer in the Ozarks. Although we knew that a lot of great outdoor activities take place in Arkansas, we really couldn’t fathom making enough beer to send to Arkansas when James first contacted us late last summer.  Perhaps it’s time for a couple of personal disclaimers here….Brian has a great love for the rice fields and flooded timber of Arkansas, which are great places for…
Piney River Brewing Company
July 9, 2012
American Craft Beer Week…Thank You! Beer Events

American Craft Beer Week…Thank You!

Five different towns in the Ozarks. Three tap takeovers. Two tastings. Half price growler fills. American Craft Beer Week is coming to an end, and our Ozarks style celebration is complete.  Earlier this evening Brian, Andy and I sat on our patio in the waning daylight, Ozark fireflies blinking all around us, and we toasted to a great week.  We covered some country.  We had fun.  We survived. We can never thank all of you individually, but we do want to say a big thank you to everyone that came out and enjoyed a pint or four, tried our beer…
Piney River Brewing Company
May 19, 2012
American Craft Beer Week…Ozarks Style Beer Events

American Craft Beer Week…Ozarks Style

Brian and I recently returned from the Craft Brewer's Conference, an annual event sponsored by the Brewer's Association.  It was inspiring and tasty, and some of the inspiration came from what we tasted.  But more about that later... Next up on Piney River Brewing's agenda is the celebration of American Craft Beer Week right here in the Ozarks. What is American Craft Beer Week, you ask? American Craft Beer Week is a nationwide celebration of the handcrafted beer made in the US by small, independent brewers.  From Monday, May 14th to Sunday, May 20th, thousands of beer beginners, beer enthusiasts…
Piney River Brewing Company
May 7, 2012
Gimme an "E". Gimme a "V". Gimme an "E". Gimme a "N". Gimme a "T". Gimme a "S". Events. Events. EVENTS! Beer Events

Gimme an "E". Gimme a "V". Gimme an "E". Gimme a "N". Gimme a "T". Gimme a "S". Events. Events. EVENTS!

It's been a little insane around here for the past month...more insane than the usual insanity.  But don't worry, we're still having the time of our lives. In addition to brewing beer, we're continuing to work on the various construction needs of the tap room at the BARn--walls are almost complete, cherry hardwood floor is soon to begin to go down.  I know, I need to blog about it.  It's not easy to blog when you're the one running the chop saw, though! Here's the most important thing to pass along to you--EVENTS!  Dates, hours, times, events!  If you follow…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 22, 2012
Thank You, Craft Beer Loving Friends! Beer Events

Thank You, Craft Beer Loving Friends!

If last Saturday's fun is a foretaste of what's in store at Piney River Brewing in 2012, we are going to have a blast together at the BARn! The week before March 17th was a blur of more tile work each evening. On Friday Brian and I both took the day off to trim around parts of the bar and back wall, move the kegerator, set up the merchandise display, open/wash new glassware, install a big chalkboard listing all of our products, and a new sound system. We took a break for dinner on Friday evening about 7, and from…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 20, 2012
Not Your Ordinary Weekend at the BARn Beer Events

Not Your Ordinary Weekend at the BARn

Since November, we have had the BARn open every Saturday afternoon (except Thanksgiving and Christmas weekends) for tastings, growler fills and general fun...including fires around the fire pits, pints with a view in the upstairs "soon-to-be" taproom, and tours and conversation with Brian and I about things like our brewing process and our passion for craft beer in the Ozarks. If you regularly frequent the BARn, you've noticed the work that we've been doing on the upstairs of the BARn--lights, tables and chairs and a real bar.  There's still work to be done--the 1,000 square foot deck off the West…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 11, 2012
How Oktoberfest Went Down Beer Events

How Oktoberfest Went Down

Brian and I geared up for our first beer festival--Oktoberfest at The Public House in Rolla--by making sure that we had excellent beer to sample.  For this festival, we had a Missouri Mule India Pale Ale and an Old Tom Porter--five gallons of each--to share with festival attendees.  My beer, the Black Walnut Wheat, also tasted fabulously of fall, so we decided to take five gallons of it to the festival, too. A very crafty girl that I work with, Brittney McNiell, was hired to carve a pumpkin with our logo in it (and she did a darn fine job…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 17, 2011
A Festive October at the Microbrewery Beer Events

A Festive October at the Microbrewery

Saturday, October 8th provided Piney River Brewing Company the opportunity to bring a local charitable organization to the brewery.  We don't offer food to our customers, but the Houston Education Foundation came out to the brewery and served up hot dogs and brats to raise funds for their group which supports the Houston schools. Our customers don't really need a reason to drink, but we offered up "pints with a purpose", donating a portion of every pint sold at the brewery yesterday.  Thanks to our thirsty customers, we were pleased to make a $120.00 donation to the Houston Education Foundation.…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 9, 2011
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