Casey Creamery celebrates busy grand opening weekend

CASEY — Casey Creamery had such a good first weekend of business that its mother/daughter co-manager team, Stacey Wedemeyer and Peyton Froelich, say they ran out of ice cream.

A steady stream of customers traveled to visit the new ice cream and coffee shop at 103 E. Logan St. in Casey.

Casey Creamery features a menu of Kemp’s hard ice cream with a wide array of toppings, lemonades, smoothies and other drinks. The Creamery’s menu will very soon also feature donuts from Dunkers by Matt, a business in Jefferson, and coffee.

Wedemeyer said it was her vision to run an ice cream shop and about a year ago it started to come together.

“We’d been looking for a building and wanted one in Casey. We love the town of Casey and like to support the town and everything that happens in the town,” Wedemeyer said. “We found the building, purchased it in November and started the renovations in December.”

To flip a former barber shop built in 1917 into a quaint, clean, modern ice cream shop in just six months was no small task, but Wedemeyer and Froehlich say it has been rewarding.

The building’s facade is all new because the old woodwork was rotting. Electrical in the building was original so it and the plumbing had to be replaced.

Froehlich graduated in 2018 from Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center and is two years into her studies in business communications and entreprenuership at the University of Iowa. She has helped virtually throughout the launch of the business with social media and an online presence. She was also instrumental in creating the recipies Casey Creamery is using for its smoothies, milkshakes, Middle River Mixers, and more.

Casey Creamery has its current hours posted on its Facebook page. They will be updated if anything changes.

For now, Wedemeyer and Froehlich say they have been very pleased with the response they’ve received from area communities.

“I was extremely proud [of our opening weekend] and it really showed that six months of hard work paid off. We have a lot of community support, especially in Casey,” Froehlich said.

The Casey Service Club was planning a ribbon cutting at Casey Creamery this Wednesday evening.