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A Grand Opening & You're Invited Beer Events

A Grand Opening & You're Invited

Piney River Brewing is planning a grand opening weekend for their new brewing facility on February 5, 6, and 7, 2016. The weekend event will begin with ribbon cutting at 2 p.m. that Friday on the Piney River Farm in Bucyrus. Piney River Brewing recently completed the largest expansion in the history of the brewery. The expansion includes a 12,000 square foot barn located near the current "BARn" production facility and tap room. The new building houses 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…
Piney River Brewing Company
January 7, 2016
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
3rd Annual Drink Your Part for the Houston Education Foundation Event Beer EventsThe BARn

3rd Annual Drink Your Part for the Houston Education Foundation Event

Houston Schools recently completed a major construction project. HEF purchased new computers for the new media center that is in the 2nd floor of this new construction. Piney River Brewing is hosting a fundraiser for the Houston Education Foundation (HEF) on Saturday, September 5th at the BARn Tap Room. Houston Education Foundation board members will be at the BARn from 2 to 7 p.m. selling bratwurst and hot dogs to raise funds for the local charity which benefits the students in the Houston School District. Piney River will donate a portion of all pint sales from the day to HEF.…
Piney River Brewing Company
September 2, 2015
Brewcyrus Does Portland, A CBC 2015 Recap Beer Events

Brewcyrus Does Portland, A CBC 2015 Recap

“This is insane,” the cab driver said to Brian and I. He was talking about the 11,000+ people in attendance at the Craft Brewer’s Conference in Portland last week. “We aren’t able to handle groups like this,” the cab driver said. “We had a big coffee convention here, but those people didn’t go out to big events every night and need rides everywhere.”  (Which leads me to believe that the coffee folks just don’t have nearly as much fun as the beer folks.) This was our 5th time to attend a Craft Brewer’s Conference, our first time to visit Portland,…
Piney River Brewing Company
April 20, 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…
Piney River Brewing Company
December 11, 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
Prepared to be Overwhelmed–Our 3rd Aleiversary Tale Beer Events

Prepared to be Overwhelmed–Our 3rd Aleiversary Tale

"If you would have told me a year ago that I would be standing here tonight making potato salad for ‘my staff’ for the Aleiversary After Party, I would have laughed.” That’s what I told Brian on Friday night about 9 p.m. Install a bar in the upstairs tap room before the 1st Aleiversary? We did that in March 2012. Put together tables and chairs for 100 before the 2nd Aleiversary? We did that in March of 2013. Every year we’ve been building something until hours before our big event. This year, we had professional help from Tim Prater at…
Piney River Brewing Company
March 17, 2014
Raccoons, Hops, Craft Beer & Good Times in the Ozarks The Beer

Raccoons, Hops, Craft Beer & Good Times in the Ozarks

As a brewer, there's that moment when you send that first case of a new beer out to the distributor or when you hand the first new pint over to a customer.  You feel like a parent.  You want the best because, after all, you created this beer.  You want the beer to stand on its own.  You want the beer to be a great representative of you. If you've followed Piney River Brewing for any time, you know that we've had a few proud parent moments...the consumer demand for Black Walnut Wheat, the GABF Gold medal for Old Tom…
Piney River Brewing Company
February 3, 2014
Some Thoughts About Stepping Out There Start up

Some Thoughts About Stepping Out There

If you've been to the BARn, you've seen a little saying we have tacked up on the wall behind the bar--"A Doer. Not a Dreamer." with the words attributed to Tom Asacker. Brian and I have been reading Tom's blog www.acleareye.com since before we dug a new well to build a brewery in rural Missouri in July of 2010. He frequently has great things to say to those in leadership positions, to entrepreneurs and to anyone who's interested in doing something that may seem a little crazy to everyone around them. Every week Brian and I are approached by people…
Piney River Brewing Company
August 7, 2013
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