Mad Co. Brew House reopens, affording residents place to 'enjoy each other's company'

MARSHALL - One of downtown Marshall's longest-running businesses announced its reopening, different important measurement successful the town's rebuild.

As outpouring nears and Madison County gears up for its authoritative reopening successful Marshall and Hot Springs successful aboriginal May, a fig of section businesses and establishments person reopened, including the downtown Marshall tag office.

Additionally, Zuma Coffee hosted its celebrated bluegrass unfastened jam March 20, its archetypal post-Helene lawsuit astatine the shop.

Mad Co. Brew House celebrated its expansive reopening March 27 and featured unrecorded euphony from Jim Hampton.

The ownership squad plans to reopen the pizza room by the extremity of April, according to Rhesa Edwards, who owns Mad Co. Brew House with her husband, Brandon, adding that the owners' precedence was reopening the taproom first.

"Everybody's excited, conscionable that we're open, to conscionable person a gathering spot to travel to 7 days a week," Rhesa Edwards said. "Everybody's wanting pizza, large time. So radical are sometimes possibly a small disappointed erstwhile they travel successful and find retired nary pizza. But I deliberation everybody's beauteous knowing of what we've gone through."

The North Main Street gathering took much than 8 feet of h2o successful Helene's Sept. 27 floods.

“To ticker everything you worked for, for 10 years, washed down the stream successful a substance of hours was heartbreaking," said Brandon Edwards. "But determination was nary uncertainty we are going to rebuild."

Rhesa Edwards recalled not being capable to entree the gathering until Sunday, Sept. 29.

"When we walked in, we had a shovel, immoderate backpacks and immoderate water. We got to the front, and truly couldn't adjacent locomotion up the beforehand patio due to the fact that determination was astir 15 inches of mud," Rhesa Edwards said. "So, present we are with a shovel, and we're like, 'This is excessively overmuch for 1 shovel.'"

After assessing the harm to the building, the mates decided to spell backmost to their Marshall location to regroup and enactment a program together, they said.

They got backmost to it connected Monday, Sept. 30, and went to work.

"We conscionable started chucking worldly connected the street, thinking, 'Everything's got to go,'" said Brandon Edwards, shouting retired the enactment of dense instrumentality operators successful Marshall similar Matt Yeakley of Red Shed Woodworks for their assistance successful Marshall's cleanup.

All of the contents and instrumentality successful the taproom and pizza room were destroyed.

Extensive renovations were necessary, including the removal of each drywall, floors, room equipment, tables, chairs and adjacent the tile and bath fixtures.

According to Rhesa Edwards, the owners were fortunate to person received donations from a GoFundMe established to rise funds for the business, arsenic the owners awaited compensation from their flood insurance.

The brewery held a brushed reopening March 17 to observe St. Patrick's Day.

"We're excited, and I cognize everybody other successful the assemblage is excited, too," Rhesa Edwards said.

"Everything that happened was beauteous shocking, but we came through, and we're acceptable to invited the assemblage backmost into Mad Co."

Flow Gallery besides celebrated a expansive reopening March 27.

"It's conscionable bully to person radical downtown," Brandon Edwards said.

Brandon Edwards said helium was overwhelmed by the enactment and turnout astatine the March 17 brushed reopening.

"They don't cognize what it means to us, due to the fact that if radical don't travel back, it's each for nothing," helium said. "But to spot radical travel retired successful the numbers that they did erstwhile we were archetypal opening, it's overwhelming. I mean, we really, truly admit our assemblage and our people."

For Rhesa Edwards, Mad Co. Brew House's reopening affords the municipality and Madison County a small consciousness of normalcy, too.

"That has been beauteous uplifting for everybody," Rhesa Edwards said. "I deliberation everybody's conscionable excited to person a spot to travel to and get together, and bask each other's company."

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Mad Co. Brew House volition temporarily run nether constricted hours:

• Monday done Thursday, 4-8 p.m.

• Friday, 2-9 p.m.

• Saturday, 2-8 p.m.

• Sunday, 2-6 p.m.

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This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Asheville Citizen Times: Marshall's Mad Co. Brew House reopens