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 CompanyOctober 31, 2024
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 CompanyOctober 22, 2024
Piney River Brewing Hosts Fundraising Event for Houston Education Foundation
Piney River Brewing Company in Bucyrus is hosting a multi-faceted event to raise funds for the Houston Education Foundation (HEF) on Saturday, September 3 at the brewery in Bucyrus. Board members from HEF will be at the brewery for most of the day cooking bratwurst and hot dogs. Funds raised from the sale of food will benefit the local foundation. In addition to food sales, a portion of every pint sold at the brewery that day will go to HEF. A cornhole tournament sponsored by Country Financial and USA Mortgage will also benefit HEF. The tournament will be managed by…
Piney River Brewing CompanyAugust 30, 2022
Piney River Brewing Company Wins Bronze World Beer Cup® Award
Piney River Brewing Company claimed a 2022 World Beer Cup bronze award for Missouri Waltz with Cherries in the Fruited Wood and Barrel-Aged Sour Beer category at the awards ceremony held on May 5 at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minnesota.
Piney River Brewing CompanyMay 9, 2022
Piney River Brewing Wins A Gold and Two Bronze Medals at International Competition
Piney River Brewing Wins Three Medals at the 2020 US Open Beer Championship
Piney River Brewing CompanyDecember 10, 2020
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 CompanyMarch 30, 2017
How We Celebrated 5 Years on the Piney River Farm
Five years. Five years?! FIVE YEARS!!! In February, during our grand opening weekend for the new brewery, I told people that five years ago, if you would have told me that there would be a new 12,000 square foot barn on our farm with a new brewhouse, new cold storage, new canning line, etc., I would have laughed and said, “You’ve obviously been drinking.” And here we are, five years later with all of those things and celebrating our 5th Aleiversary to boot. For the first time at an Aleiversary, Brian and I did not spend a crazy portion of the…
Piney River Brewing CompanyMarch 22, 2016
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 CompanyApril 13, 2014