Vicky needed a break from "everything" that has been happening around the house lately so I suggested going off our usual routine and heading down to a brewery that we had discovered about a year ago, just by accident, as we sampled some of their beers at a Missouri Conservation weekend down at Onondaga Cave State Park. The Brewery is Piney River Brewing Company and it located in a very remote part of the state of Missouri in Bucyrus. With not much around it I looked for where we might stay and came across the Boiling Springs Resort. It is located directly next to the Boiling Springs recreation ares, which is a giant spring that feeds very cold clean water into the Big Piney River.
The resort was just purchased by a great young couple in October, just in time for it to completely flood out in the big rains we had in Missouri in December, but they are up and running and are doing well. the resort was completely full this weekend. It has RV, Tent campground and Cabins for rent.
All set up and ready to go.
We had planned to take the shuttle from the resort to the brewery, they offer this service, but their bus had a battery issue, so we just drove ourselves but that meant we had to be careful with our consumption of alcohol
The Brewery was actually an old BARn, on the left below, that they have refurbished on their property, but since they have been selling so much beer they constructed a new barn, center, to move their operation to have more capacity.
www.pineyriverbrewing.com
They would love to rename the town to "Brewcyrus"
Inside of the old barn
While we were there the owners gave a tour of the actual brewing facility. This is how they started, well they started in their garage, but this the first commercial success, brewing just 40 gallons.
The new facility is much larger and can brew up to 10,000 gallons of beer!
Back in the BARn we order the sampler which is a great way to sample all their craft beers
All dead soldiers. We had a chance to pick our favorites
The next day we rented a couple of tubes and floated 5 miles of the Big Piney River. This took us about 3 hours and it was extremely relaxing. Some of the water was very quiet so I got my exercise in from the day before by having to paddle with my arms as our inner tubes were tied together.
We barely beat a huge rain storm back to the resort. We were safe and sound but several parties got caught out on the river and had to find shelter from the rain and lighting that lasted most of the afternoon. The water temperature was great and even though we got a bit sunburned it was a great time
It was a great time and we can highly recommend a visit to Piney River Brewing company and staying at Boiling Springs Resort.
