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Beer + Cheese Please! A Piney River Pairing Guide The Beer

Beer + Cheese Please! A Piney River Pairing Guide

The Piney River Brewing tent at Ozarks Beerfest with none other than Joleen and Brian slinging the beer samples! Over the weekend we poured beer at Ozarks Beerfest in Springfield. We've been attending/pouring beer at this fest for a long time, and while beerfests are a love/hate relationship with breweries, we usually participate in this fest because the main sponsor is Price Cutter, which is one of the places in SW Missouri where you can easily find Piney River beer. Price Cutter supports us; we support this event which in turn benefits Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Ozarks. The weather…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 7, 2025
It Takes A Mule Team Beer EventsThe BARnThe Beer

It Takes A Mule Team

In 2014 we celebrated the 3rd Aleiversary at Piney River Brewing Co. with a special release imperial IPA that we called "Mule Team" paying homage to our Missouri Mule IPA and the team of people that it takes to make a packaging microbrewery on a Farm in the Ozarks work. Craft beer changes led us to stop making Mule Team after the 8th Aleiversary in 2019. The beer is very expensive to make due to the large amount of malt and hops, and by 2019 a lot of breweries had IPAs, imperial IPAs, hazy IPAs, you name it. There wasn't…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 20, 2025
The True Tale About Old Tom Porter’s 2nd GABF Win Beer EventsThe Beer

The True Tale About Old Tom Porter’s 2nd GABF Win

There we were...livestreaming the Great American Beer Festival feed from Denver. It was Saturday, October 12th, a date that we had set for our annual Fall on the Farm long before the Brewer's Association offered a free booth space to GABF brewery attendees. In previous years we have attended GABF as a way to support the BA, the national trade association for America's craft brewers. Then came Covid which shut GABF down. Then it was Andy's senior year of high school with activities we didn't want to miss every weekend. In 2023 we were moving Andy to Stanford, and we…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 31, 2024
Piney River Brewing Wins a Bronze Medal at 2024 Great American Beer Festival® The Beer

Piney River Brewing Wins a Bronze Medal at 2024 Great American Beer Festival®

Old Tom Porter by Piney River Brewing Company has been recognized as one of the best brews in the nation at the country’s largest professional beer competition. Piney River won a bronze medal for Old Tom Porter at the Great American Beer Festival® (GABF) hosted by the Brewers Association in Denver, CO on October 12th. Old Tom Porter poured into a glass and the can which features an Eastern wild turkey in strut. Old Tom Porter was recognized in the “brown porter” beer-style category. This dark beer is a traditional English-style ale that features roasted malts that have chocolate and…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 22, 2024
Piney River Brewing Wins Five Medals at US Open Beer Championship The Beer

Piney River Brewing Wins Five Medals at US Open Beer Championship

Piney River's 2024 US Open Beer Championship winning beers (left to right) Float Trip Ale, Andy's Root Beer, Missouri Waltz, Black Walnut Wheat & Raise A Ruckus Imperial Stout Piney River Brewing won five medals at the US Open Beer Championship 2024 competition, announced this week from the US Open Beer Championship Headquarters in Oxford, OH. The 2024 competition included over 9,000 beers in 170 different beer style categories. The contest is open to professional brewers and award-winning beers from home brewers across the US.  US Open judges hail from England, Canada, and the US, and judging is completed annually…
Piney River Brewing Company
July 11, 2024
Shot Through the Heart, And We’re to Blame The BARnThe Beer

Shot Through the Heart, And We’re to Blame

It's a song. It's for a movie. It's the name of a beer! But not just any beer. It's a very special collabeeration with our friends at Alamo Drafthouse in Springfield and in St. Louis. Drumroll please...Shot Through the Heart! A delicious, highly crushable red lager to be paired with The Fall Guy or whatever movie, or trivia, or Backlot hang you've got going on. First of all, a little bit about the movie, The Fall Guy, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. It's an action comedy. A stunt guy trying to be cool. A pissed off ex-girlfriend. Go…
Piney River Brewing Company
May 1, 2024
All the Buzz about Honeybee Helles The Beer

All the Buzz about Honeybee Helles

Hey friends! There's a new beer in town and here's the buzz... We've had a little bit of fun over the years making beers and using honey as one of the ingredients. Sometime in the past year, Brian and I were discussing possibly new beers for the upcoming year. Brian's really enjoyed making lagers, and a helles (pronounced hell-ess) was on his lager list. I enjoy a good lager  as much as anyone, but I also am always trying to think of something unique about each beer we make. I suggested that we add honey to the helles and call…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 12, 2024
Piney River Brewing Flows All the Way to Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers The Beer

Piney River Brewing Flows All the Way to Confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

Piney River Brewing Company has partnered with Craft Republic in St. Louis to get beer flowing from the Ozarks farm brewery all the way to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers in St. Louis city, county, and surrounding counties. “We are very excited about the opportunity to send our award-winning beers to the largest beer-drinking population in our great state,” Brian Durham, head brewer, co-founder and co-owner at Piney River Brewing, said. Durham and his wife, Joleen, founded the brewery in 2010 with a small, one-third barrel brewing system on their 160-acre farm in South Central Missouri. The…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 20, 2023
12(?!) Years of Craft Beer in the Ozarks Calls for A Party! The Beer

12(?!) Years of Craft Beer in the Ozarks Calls for A Party!

Piney River Brewing Company is celebrating 12 years of brewing craft beer in the Ozarks at the brewery in Bucyrus with a party. The “12th Aleiversary” party will be held at the BARn—the brewery and tap room located off Junction ZZ in Bucyrus—from 12 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. The annual party features beer releases, live music, and food. “After 12 years, we are still in awe of the people that visit our Farm to enjoy a fresh, local beer,” Joleen Senter Durham, co-founder and co-owner of Piney River Brewing, said. “We have many people that make regular…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 1, 2023
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