Portneuf Valley Brewing

Portneuf Valley Brewing

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615 S 1st Ave
Pocatello, ID, 83201
United States

208-232-1644

Year Established: 1996

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Portneuf Valley Brewing poured their first beer for public consumption in July of 1996. Owner and Brew Mistress Penny Pink had been brewing fine beers for the enjoyment of her family and friends for many years, and decided to turn her hobby into a self-supporting business. Setting up her first commercial brewery inside Dudley's Sports Bar & Grill, her unique brews soon gathered a loyal following. Recognizing the need for expansion and with a desire to pour her beer from her own taps in a brew-pub atmosphere where people could actually see the process of creating the beer they were enjoying, in March of 1999 Penny purchased the old East Idaho Brewing Company building at 615 S. First Ave in Pocatello. The building hadn't been used in years, and was a filthy old warehouse that had most recently been used as a haunted house when she bought it. Penny and her teenage sons dove in and began gutting and cleaning the place up, setting the stage for the needed renovations to open a brewpub. It took years of hard work, but in the summer of 2002 PVB began full production operations at the new site on South 1st Ave. Penny's dream, however, was far from complete. Once the brewery side of the operation was set up and functioning, work began on the rest of the main floor of the building to create a comfortable atmosphere for the pub. The amount of work needed was unbelievable. It was necessary to install a sprinkler system to cover the entire 9,000 square feet of the two-story building. A great deal of structural work was required, and then there was the aesthetic side of things. The pub needed to be comfortable and appealing, and Penny wanted to be able to provide live entertainment suitable for the tastes of her clientele. At the same time the work was being done to prepare the place for on-site consumption, the volume of beer going out the doors in kegs and growlers from the tasting room was increasing exponentially. PVB was no longer a