When Dave Valencia announced plans to close Oro Brewing & Vice Co. after nine years along Mesa’s Main Street, he also assured patrons and fans that “although our story may be ending, another story will begin.”
That next story involves a trio of Mesa restaurateurs, the popular cidery Cider Corps and a brewer with panache for crafting Mexican-style lagers.
“It’s always been one of those dream scenarios where I get to manufacture the beer for all of my concepts,” says Armando Herndanez, who, with his wife Nadia Holguin, has become a culinary force in the Valley…