Hours:
Wednesday – Friday 6:00pm – 12:00am
Saturday 2:00pm – 12:00am
Sunday 2:00pm – 10:00pm
Monday – Tuesday: Closed
ABOUT US-
A STORY TOLD IN THE PRESENT TENSE
Moccasin Bend Brewing Company is licensed in August of 2007 and the second commercial brewery in Chattanooga since the mid 50’s . MBBC was located in a century old warehouse in the St. Elmo district of Chattanooga, TN. That original location was close to the foot of Lookout Mountain and not far away from where the Tennessee River bends to form the shape of shoe.
Envision if you will Chris Hunt and Duncan Guy. Hunt is former police officer and loss prevention manager, Guy is a brilliant fabricator and chemical engineer, Both share an unhealthy obsession (intoxication?) with beer and brewing. Even worse, they dream of turning their hobby into a business. Hunt and Guy meet while attending the local homebrew club. While many members of the club are interested in creating beers that perfectly duplicate existing beers-Hunt is different, he dreams of selling a pale ale infused with roasted pumpkin seeds, a stout brewed with caco nibs and cream ale brewed with juniper berries. . Anticipating some public trepidition towards the beers, he comes up with the slogan “Weird is Good” In 2006, Hunt and Guy create an LLC. Fellow club member, Courtney Tyvand overhears the drunken musings of the two and offers cash. Tyvand has created award winning traditional beers, but he also makes a weirdly wonderful smoked porter. Tyvand is in. The brewery is licensed in 2007.
Fast forward to 2010, Courtney Tyvand and Duncan Guy wisely leave to pursue less risky and more profitable endavors. Chris Hunt continues his obsession as lead brewer and eventual owner. Braden Morris,, joins the breweryin 2010 as volunteer and in 2012 is offered the position of assistant brewer, as a reward for his stubborn tenacity and wicked sense of the absurd. In 2013 three seven barrel fermenters are signed for in blood and MBBC becomes a majorly “weird.
The brewery was located on the ground floor of a historic warehouse at 4015 Tennessee Avenue in St. Elmo. The building is constructed of foot-square red oak timbers and 3 1/2 foot thick walls made of granite stone and mortar. The building was built in 1940 and is later used as an assembly warehouse for K-Rations during WWII, But the inablity to negoiate a new building lease means the brewery has to relocate.
The brewery must find a new location and file relocation papers with the federal government or close .Up the street from the old location at 3210 Broad- a restaurant with a working walk in cooler becomes available. The choice is made to stay near ST. Elmo . Brewery friends pull an all nighter and get equipment moved out a day and a night., The beer goes to refrigerated storage , the broad street lease signed and notice filed with the Feds. It’s June of of 2015. a year is spent shoehorning a brewery into a former restaurant and negoiating with architects, engineers and city inspectors. On May 20th, Moccasin Bend Brewing Company officially opens at 3210 Broad Street.
The building that houses the brewery is built in 1952 as the restaurant portion of the first Holiday Inn built in Chattanooga. In 1954 , Albert Pick Hotels leases the building building from Holiday Inn and stays until the Mid-70’s . Until MBBC lands. the location becomes a series of mexican themed restaurants with as varied weird a history as the brewery.
MBBC offers specialty ales and lagers in kegs of various sizes. Please check our & Facebook page for scheduled events and beer availability.
Contact information:
Moccasin Bend Brewing Company
3210 Broad St. Suite B
Chattanooga, TN 37408
Tel: (423) 821-6392
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