The gas station on Broad Street is now offering a growler fill station and it will have one tap dedicated to Moccasin Bend Brewing company products. (Photo: Staff)

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Moccasin Bend Brewing Co. leaders are working to get settled in their temporary space on Broad Street, but they also have plans to move to a bigger permanent location in St. Elmo.

For now, the business is in the old Ovalle’s Mexican Café at 3210 Broad St.

It’s not open yet, but leaders hope to be up and running there in about a month, depending on how long the permit process takes.

And in the longer term, the business is slated to move to the first floor of a building at 3804 St. Elmo Ave., which is near the Incline Railway. It’s also the building where the Tennessee Bouldering Authority is located.

It will be at least six months before they make that move, sales manager Jeremiah Barrett said via email.

In late April, Moccasin Bend Brewing Co. announced via Facebook that they were leaving their Tennessee Avenue location after about eight years there. Around that same time, Ovalle’s announced they would close after three years in business.

Old Ovalle’s location

The temporary location will have a larger taproom than the old 4015 Tennessee Ave. spot, and leaders should be able to have live music again there, Barrett said.

In this location, leaders plan to brew small batches but won’t have full-scale production.

“Our plan is to keep up with beer for the taproom and have enough to keep us on tap at our current accounts,” Barrett also said.

The temporary location will provide more room and a unique vibe.

“We’re leaving most of the Mexican décor up and adding some weirdness to it,” he said. “It’ll be fun.”

New St. Elmo location

This space will be much larger, with the brewery taking up the southeast corner of the basement and first floor, he said. Leaders also have plans to build out a patio in the current parking lot area, Barrett said.

Once this location has the taproom ready, leaders will shut down the Broad Street space.

“We’ll likely fire up the pilot system and start making some of our past favorite small batches,” he said.

This building has a similar history to the first Moccasin Bend Brewing Co. location in St. Elmo, so leaders hope to capture some of the original vibe there, he also said.

“The bar will be bigger, the equipment probably bigger, the patio bigger,” Barrett said. ”Everything will be better. But we’ll stay rooted with what worked in St. Elmo for the last eight years.”

Nooga.com reporter David Morton contributed to this article.