Nexus Brewery boldly goes to the next frontier — canning its beers

The news that Nexus Brewery was preparing to can its own beers had slowly trickled out over the last few months, but there was still nothing 100-percent official as to when those cans would arrive at both locations.

Well, the cans have landed, and are officially on sale now, with a big release party on Wednesday at the original location and the Blue Smokehouse. To learn a little more about what all went into canning at a brewpub, I sat down with head brewer Randy King late Tuesday afternoon.

“It’s really all about the pandemic,” he said. “Our sales were down to almost nothing, and we needed to figure out an outlet to sell beer. We’re taking baby steps, but we’ve got four-packs of cans right now and we’re selling just out of here and Nexus Blue Smokehouse.”

The initial can lineup features three of the best sellers at the brewery, plus one

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