{"id":41430,"date":"2025-09-28T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/hi-wire-brewing-rebuilds-after-river-arts-district-flooding\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:00:10","slug":"hi-wire-brewing-rebuilds-after-river-arts-district-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/hi-wire-brewing-rebuilds-after-river-arts-district-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Wire Brewing Rebuilds After River Arts District Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fq3qg4Qlq18?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>When Hurricane Helene brought devastating floods to Asheville\u2019s River Arts District, it forced businesses like Hi-Wire Brewing to rethink everything. Co-founder Adam Charnack shares the emotional journey of losing nearly everything\u2014equipment, artwork, office space\u2014but gaining a new mission in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The brewery&#8217;s distribution center and facilities were submerged under more than 7 feet of water. Despite losing over 1.4 million empty cans and hundreds of thousands of filled products, the team persevered. By collaborating with other brewers and repurposing their space, Hi-Wire is turning tragedy into transformation. They&#8217;re now planning to make their River Arts location a year-round community destination, complete with pickleball courts, golf simulators, and an e-bike tour company.<\/p>\n<p>This is a powerful story of resilience, identity, and rebuilding\u2014not just for Hi-Wire Brewing, but for the entire River Arts District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Hurricane Helene brought devastating floods to Asheville\u2019s River Arts District, it forced businesses like Hi-Wire Brewing to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}