Ex Novo beer garden begins to take shape in the heart of Corrales

During a recent, as in Monday night, visit to Ex Novo, members of the Crew noticed some new additions to the area around the future beer garden out in front of the brewery building in Corrales. With nothing much else going on to start our week, I trekked back across town to get a better look in the daylight and found even more to this growing project.

There are now a number of converted shipping containers (we saw one the night before) that will make up much of the beer garden’s physical structures. One will become the bar, that general manager Stevo Jeter told us will become his semi-permanent home away from home. It will come complete with multiple taps, a sink for cleaning, and even a small sandwich station for making paninis and the like. The bar will face out to the east, sparring poor Stevo from being blinded (and/or scorched) by the setting sun.

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