Nexus Brewery prepares for internal expansion at both taprooms in 2022

Nexus Brewery weathered the toughest parts of the pandemic, and is now almost back to its prior sales numbers. It has not been easy to get there, but owner Ken Carson and head brewer Randy King are feeling upbeat as 2022 rolls along. I sat down with both of them for our Look Back/Look Ahead Series last week.

“Well, I don’t know how to describe it,” Carson said of 2021. “We started off the year, kind of opened up, we were able to serve beers. I can’t remember the order of things. It’s all jumbled up in my mind as to what happened when, because sometimes we opened, then we closed, then we went to the patio again.

“I guess I would say that every time they knocked us back, we responded relatively quickly to the positive. The governor would come with an order that would head off sales, reduce the sales that we were doing, but within a few weeks we would recover and we would be

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