Big Piney River IPA
Things are getting crazy, I mean hazy, at Piney River Brewing Company. We’ve got a new year beer that will be hitting the shelves year round–Big Piney River IPA.
If you follow this blog and the Piney River story, you know that in September, we brewed our first ever New England-style (aka hazy) IPA with our friends from Alamo Drafthouse. You’re Welcome America IPA was paired with Zombieland Double Tap. Hopefully you were able to enjoy that beer. We ran out of You’re Welcome America IPA in our taproom long ago.
This past weekend at the BARn was Raise A Ruckus weekend, and this year’s 2020 imperial stout is again delicious and worth the wait. However, the #1 question we fielded last weekend was not about our stout. It was: “When are you bringing back ‘America’?”
Who knew that our beer loving, BARn regulars could also be fans of hazy IPA? (If you aren’t someone that keeps track of American beer trends, hazy IPAs are pretty much the hottest style of beer in the USA.) So, just because Piney River Brewing is waaaay back in the woods, doesn’t mean our local, regular beer drinkers don’t know great beer flavor when they get one!
Last summer Brian and I started thinking about making a hazy IPA for our 2020 lineup, long before one was ever brewed on our Farm. The beer was given a name, the label was created, and plans were in the works for Big Piney River IPA before we even knew if we could successfully execute the New England-style IPA. Brewing You’re Welcome America gave us the opportunity to dip our toes before we went head first into Big Piney River IPA.
We’re fully submerged now, folks! Brian brewed Big Piney River IPA the first week of the new year, Big Piney River IPA was packaged this week, and the beer will make its BARn debut this weekend.
You’re welcome.
Big Piney River IPA–Our newest, year-round beer.
The beer deets:
- Dry hopped with Galaxy, Citra, and Mosaic for flavors and aromas of pineapple, orange and guava.
- 8% ABV
- 40 IBUs – And don’t let that fool you…it’s a lot of hops but they provide flavor and aroma, not a a lot of bitterness found in more traditional IPAs.
- Ingredients: Ozark well water, malted barley, and yeast.
- Description: New England-style IPA dry hopped with Citra, Galaxy, and Mosaic. Hazy in color, soft in the mouth with a load of juicy, citrus hop flavor, lots of citrus hop aroma, but without any hop bitterness.
The beer name pays homage to the 85-mile river that begins in Southern Texas County and winds its way for miles and miles through our land–the Big Piney River. The Big Piney River rolls through hundreds of acres of Mark Twain National Forest. The river is fed by numerous spring fed creeks like the Little Piney Creek (on our Farm), Steam Mill Hollow Creek, Brushy Creek, Paddy Creek (of the famous Paddy Creek Wilderness). It rolls North into Pulaski County, through Fort Leonard Wood. A little corner of the Big Piney River is found in Phelps County where it’s fed by Spring Creek. The Big Piney River ends near Devil’s Elbow where it meets the Gasconade River, almost straight North of where the river begins.
The Big Piney River is “our” river. We enjoy a good float trip on the Big Piney. We’ve found a few good beer names and our brewery name from the Big Piney. We love the tug of a Piney River smallie on the end of our fishing line. There’s also nothing nearly as beautiful as gazing up at limestone bluff overlooking the Big Piney River.
We hope you enjoy Big Piney River IPA wherever you live, but like the can says, we made “IPA for the Outdoors” so we really hope you enjoy some hazy days in the outdoors in 2020!
Big Piney River IPA is for the Outdoors!
