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How the Piney River Seventh Trumpet Came to Be The Beer

How the Piney River Seventh Trumpet Came to Be

At the 5th Aleiversary we were able to share our first Imperial Stout with you--Seventh Trumpet. This isn't just any stout; this stout has a story that you really need to know. In late 2014, The Home Brewery in Ozark, MO contacted us regarding the annual Zymurgists of the Ozarks homebrew  competition. They asked is we would be willing to judge the winning beers of the competition and choose a favorite to brew with the winning homebrewer.   Brian and I started out as home brewers, and we have great respect for some of the homebrewers that we know that brew great…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 1, 2016
Farm Brewer Wanted! The Beer

Farm Brewer Wanted!

Do you love beer?  We may have a job for you! We're looking for a new team member on the Piney River Farm--a brewer!  Our brewers are paid well, and we take a lot of pride in work our team members do every day.  Brewing is hard work, but brewing excellent craft beer is also very rewarding.  And if you work for us, you get to live here!  In the Ozarks where the streams and trails abound. Check out this job description.  If this sounds like something you are interested in, let us know why you're passionate about beer and…
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October 21, 2015
How Piney River Runs Through St. Louis The Beer

How Piney River Runs Through St. Louis

A couple of years ago, Brian and I poured beer at Augusta Bottoms Bierfest. We met John Hummel from Summit Distributing for the first time at that festival. Like many people in the St. Louis area, John and members of his family had found a little convenience store near St. Louis where they could sometimes find Piney River beer. They wanted more. John had also heard about Piney River through the Missouri wholesale distributor network. He let us know that he would like a seat at the table when we began talking to distributors in the St. Louis area. I’m…
Piney River Brewing Company
October 15, 2015
Piney River Brewing Wins Four Awards at US Open Beer Championship The Beer

Piney River Brewing Wins Four Awards at US Open Beer Championship

A line up of the four Piney River Beers that won awards at the US Beer Open Championship—Crankbait Cream Ale, Black Walnut Wheat, McKinney Eddy Amber Ale and Hobby Farm Ale. Piney River Brewing won a gold and three silver awards at the US Beer Open Championships on July 4th. The competition featured over 4,000 beers from 90 different styles from breweries from around the world. An international panel of judges gave the awards based on blind taste tests. Piney River’s Crankbait Cream Ale received a gold award in the “American Cream Ale” category. This beer is a spring seasonal…
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July 7, 2015
Craft Beer…It's Something We Can All Agree On The Beer

Craft Beer…It's Something We Can All Agree On

We don't claim to be particularly political at Piney River.  But we do believe in speaking up about things that are important to us to our elected officials. As we've learned over the past four years, craft beer crosses all political lines, and we can all come together to share a beer. And that's how this came to be. Brian shows off the new construction project to US Representative Jason Smith (MO-8). We were very honored to host our Congressman for Missouri's 8th District at Piney River today.  Representative Jason Smith and his aides Eric Harmon and Tammy Corrigan picked…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 30, 2015
Piney River Brewing Plans $1.2 Million Expansion at Bucyrus Farm The Beer

Piney River Brewing Plans $1.2 Million Expansion at Bucyrus Farm

Piney River Brewing will soon be available to more craft beer fans across the Ozarks with a $1.2 million expansion beginning this week at the Bucyrus, MO farm-based brewery. The expansion includes a 12,000 square foot barn located near the current "BARn" production facility and tap room. The new building will house a custom built 15-barrel three-vessel brew house from Criveller Company of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; four 60-barrel fermentation vessels and two 60-barrel bright beer tanks from Paul Mueller Company in Springfield, MO and a Series Three eight-head automatic canner from Wild Goose Canning in Boulder, CO. This expansion…
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December 11, 2014
A Craft Beer Book Review: The Craft Beer Revolution The Beer

A Craft Beer Book Review: The Craft Beer Revolution

I love to read. But I don't have much time to read these days. This past week I had some time alone, away from the brewery to stick my nose in a book. The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers is Transforming the World's Favorite Drink by Steve Hindy, a co-founder of The Brooklyn Brewery was so interesting that I had to carve out a little time tonight to tell you about it. So...I've got Full Circle by New Holland Brewing on the patio table, Ani DiFranco and a cacophony of frogs and insects playing in the background…
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June 22, 2014
The Behind the Scenes Peek at Our First World Beer Cup Win The Beer

The Behind the Scenes Peek at Our First World Beer Cup Win

I need to preface this blog post by saying that I feel like anything I write here is going to seem much less dramatic than Piney River's first big win at the Great American Beer Festival.  Even in those moments after we won Gold at GABF last October, I remember thinking, "There will never be another moment like this one."  There's only one first time. Shortly after the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, we were contacted to participate in the largest beer competition in the world--the World Beer Cup.  Also put on by the Brewer's Association, the World Beer Cup…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 15, 2014
Piney River Brewing Wins Gold at the World Beer Cup® The Beer

Piney River Brewing Wins Gold at the World Beer Cup®

Piney River Brewing Company in Bucyrus, MO claimed a gold award in the 2014 World Beer Cup, a global beer competition that evaluates beers from around the world and recognizes the most outstanding brewers and their beers. Gold, silver and bronze awards in the competition’s 94 beer style categories were presented April 11, 2014 during the World Beer Cup award ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado. Piney River Brewing was awarded a gold award in the American-style wheat beer style category for its Float Trip Ale, a wheat-based blonde ale featuring pale wheat and malted barley with balanced,…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 13, 2014
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