Bucyrus, Missouri–A Craft Beer Town
Bucyrus. Pronounced "Bue-sigh-russ". I know. It doesn't look like that. Bucyrus is little more than a postal code. In fact, Bucyrus is one of the rural post office towns that's on the post office chopping block. But we'll get to keep our name. A whole bunch of good people live in Bucyrus. I imagine that every single resident of Bucyrus has had the distinct pleasure of giving someone we don't know our zip code for a town look up only to receive complete silence while they try to figure out how to pronounce the town that just popped up. At…
Piney River Brewing CompanyFebruary 15, 2012
Charlie McKinney’s Sign and the PRBC Fermentation Vessels
If you ever visited our friend Charlie McKinney’s blacksmith shop—McKinney Forge in Bucyrus—you would have noticed a large and colorful sign mounted high up on the wall in the shop. The sign was pretty hard to miss…lots of words and color and pretty darn interesting to read. The sign was scavenged from a road side trash pile by Charlie and Marian somewhere down South. Charlie and Marian were collectors of things for their shop, studio and home. When Marian auctioned much of the blacksmith shop, the sign came down, and the brewery was deemed a great place to hang it.…
Piney River Brewing CompanyJanuary 8, 2012


