Beer. And Lots Of It I began this particular page in 2008 when there were four breweries in Connecticut: Cottrell, Hooker, New England, and Olde Burnside. Only one had a tasting room (Hooker) and each was pumping out only a handful of beers. There were a few brewpubs operating as well. And we only had five … [Read more...]
Half Full Brewery
You Can Take the Boy Out of Wall Street... Half Full Brewery, Stamford February 2020 My "relationship" with Half Full is a funny one. Until I visited, it was by far, the longest-tenured operational brewery in Connecticut that I had never visited. It took me about eight years to finally check the place out in … [Read more...]
Tox Brewing Company
C2H6O Tox Brewing Company, New London February 2020 I'll never forget the first time I heard about New London's Tox Brewing. They were a group of guys at a brewfest that invited homebrewers with branded jockey boxes and dreams of professionalism. They played up the Tox thing - as in "toxic" - and I … [Read more...]
Norbrook Farm Brewery
NorstromBrook Norbrook Farm Brewery, Colebrook April 2019 Colebrook, Connecticut. Colebrook has a brewery. Colebrook has almost nothing else, but it has a brewery. A large, sparkling, 5,300-square foot brewery. A destination brewery that looks like it belongs in an issue of "Country Living". In … [Read more...]
High Nine Brewing
High Nine at High Noon High Nine Brewing, Deep River January 2020 “You must be high.” Why? “Because you continue to go to every podunk hole-in-the-wall corrugated steel box brewery with sloppily hung signage in Connecticut, even though every one of them is sort of the same place now, just in different … [Read more...]
Luppoleto Brewing Company
Buon Giorno! Luppoleto Brewing Company, Windsor Locks November 2019 When I began writing about Connecticut breweries in 2009, only Hooker in Bloomfield was between my workplaces in Windsor and Enfield. Since then, Back East, Powder Hollow, Broad Brook v.East Windsor (now Problem Solved) all opened. Then along came … [Read more...]
Woodbury Brewing Company
A Place To Chat, Chew, and Drink Brew Woodbury Brewing Company, Woodbury June 2019 There's a formula for naming breweries and it's a pretty boring formula. One brewery began by going against that formula. Of course it would be weird if I wasn't talking about this one, Woodbury Brewing Company. Yes, this … [Read more...]
Athletic Brewing Company
This Place Will Work Out Athletic Brewing Company, Stratford June 2019 With the incredible rise of the craft brewing industry over the 20-teens, many have been bought/taken over by the massive international companies that provide the world its Budweisers, Coronas and Heinekens. There are bars now that have their … [Read more...]
Better Half Brewing
What’s the Lesser Half Like? Better Half Brewing, Bristol November 2019 There is a very good brewery in Bristol that brews very good beer, spanning a wide array of styles. I very much enjoy that brewery in Bristol. This is not that brewery. Better Half Brewing opened in the summer of 2019 in a former CVS along … [Read more...]
The Stack/Bear’s Smokehouse
Bearly Beer The Stack/Black Hog Brewing at Bear’s Smokehouse, New Haven June 2019 I was trying to sort something out for this page and came across the perfect Yelp! Review: Bear's Smokehouse New Haven or The Stack, which is it? Cafeteria-style service or waited tables, which is it? Should I get a drink at … [Read more...]
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