Blue Corn Brewery closed its doors in 2020; Hidden Mountain reopens them in 2021

Only a few days into the year, Blue Corn Brewery announced to the public that they were re-opening for the first time since August. They also announced that they were re-opening not as Blue Corn Brewery, but as Hidden Mountain Brewing Company. In 2020, both Blue Corn locations packed up their belongings for good, and now in 2021, a brand-new smokehouse (under the same management) is settling into the Southside location.

I recently had a pleasant, COVID-safe, socially-distanced dinner with head brewer Paul Mallory and his partner Shannon, over some delicious local Papusas and a pint of Paul’s new hazy IPA. We caught up to chat about a very weird, wild ride of a year, and he told me all about how he got through 2020, and what was in-store for his longtime beer fans under the new brewery name.

But first, Mallory was also kind enough to put me in con

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