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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
Piney River Brewing Celebrates Lucky Number 13 Aleiversary Beer Events

Piney River Brewing Celebrates Lucky Number 13 Aleiversary

Piney River Brewing Company is celebrating 13 years of brewing craft beer in the Ozarks at the brewery in Bucyrus with a party at the brewery farm. The “13th 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 23. The annual party features beer releases, live music, and food. “After 13 years, Brian and I consider ourselves to be lucky to make award winning beers that celebrate the Ozarks on our farm in Bucyrus,” Joleen Senter Durham, co-founder and co-owner of Piney River Brewing,…
Piney River Brewing Company
February 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
How to Celebrate 6 Years of Making Beer on a Farm in the Ozarks Beer Events

How to Celebrate 6 Years of Making Beer on a Farm in the Ozarks

Anybody up for a 6th Aleiversary? We moved our Aleiversary celebration to the last weekend in March this year in order to better accommodate the schedules of our distributor and retail partners. We wanted them to be able to join us in celebrating instead of being up to their eyeballs in St. Patrick’s Day revelry, and it worked! Brian and I hosted almost 100 retail and distribution partners at the BARn for the Aleiversary. Even better—over 600 of our friends and fans and Ozarks craft beer lovers came out for our big day on Saturday. And many of you also joined…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 30, 2017
Sixth Aleiversary Coming Up! You’re Gonna Be Here, Right? Beer EventsThe BARnThe Beer

Sixth Aleiversary Coming Up! You’re Gonna Be Here, Right?

Piney River Brewing Company is celebrating their sixth anniversary on Sat., Mar. 25th at the brewery in Bucyrus. The “6th Aleiversary” party will be held at the BARn—the brewery and tap room located off Junction ZZ—from 12 to 7 p.m. “Once again, we are looking forward to enjoying a beautiful spring day in the Ozarks at our upcoming Aleiversary,” Joleen Durham, co-founder and owner, said. Durham described the Aleiversary as “the biggest event in Bucyrus”. Each spring hundreds of people from across the region visit the Piney River Farm for the Aleiversary. “The event is family-friendly, and there is no charge…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 8, 2017
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