We continue with our goal to be maltier, but we have also made some really good IPAs.Įarly in the pandemic, you told us your to-go business was hopping. Unfortunately, some people interpreted that our beer was not as good because we did not load it with hops. Our plan was to be on the maltier side of beer. So we set out to make scotch ale as a differentiator. I discovered scotch ale at Kelly’s and really liked it. We had planned on doing something different from day one IPAs were everywhere. What goes into your team’s decisions for crafting new beers? In an era defined by the IPA, your flagship is a scotch ale. Southern fried chicken and waffles at Nexus Brewery. This was one of the best moves I ever made. But because I was from New Mexico, I had to have red chile, so I came up with the concept of New Mexican soul food. So I came up with the concept of making fried chicken and waffles, from doing research on the internet. My first idea was to do barbecue, but I had customers in the business that had struggled and I figured if I screwed up on food costs, that was too big of a risk to take. I do not even like paninis, so I decided I wanted something different. Then I started talking to people and asking what they thought we should serve. So during construction, I told the contractor, expand the space for the kitchen and put in a kitchen hood. Then I said to myself, if I can open a brewery then they can open a brewery. And then I heard, back ten years ago, that all these people were going to open breweries. The original plan was for a small room where we could make paninis or simple sandwiches with potato chips. I did not intend for Nexus to be a restaurant. In your mind, what makes a perfect gastropub? Why did you choose to open a brewery with a kitchen? I do not necessarily feel like I am in the nexus, but I hope that our customers and even our team members feel really positive about our goal to have a special place-a place where they can get away and experience special food and beer and a place where they can relax. Do you ever find yourself standing in the dining room at Nexus, wondering if the scene could possibly be real, the way Picard does in the movie? Your restaurant’s name is drawn from Star Trek VII: Generations, where Captain Kirk and Picard get pulled into the nexus, an alternate plane where everything is perfect.
Nexus has consistently been rated as one of the best restaurants in Albuquerque for food, beer, and service. Ken shifted career paths and opened Nexus Brewery & Restaurant in May 2011. He has held the position of state banking commissioner for the State of New Mexico and was appointed president of the Bank of Belen, where he worked for fourteen years. He worked for thirty-five years as a banker, starting out as a federal bank examiner. is an Albuquerque native and attended New Mexico State University.
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