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Breweries, Brewpubs & Cideries

Hell or High Water Brewpub (Closed)

February 4, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Welp, About That Name... Hell or High Water Brewpub, Norwalk This place closed in October 2017. Pictures below were stolen from Yelp I think. I never visited Hell or High Water Brewpub. Since I began keeping track of and caring about Connecticut breweries in 2008 or so, I've visited and written about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Fairfield County, Norwalk

Velvet Libations (Closed)

February 3, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Twilight Zone Velvet Libations, Wolcott April 2022 Velvet Libations - yes, that was the actual name - closed in September 2022. 189 Days. Velvet Libations existed in our lives for 189 days. In the year 2022, from their grand opening on St. Patrick's Day until a quiet, unremarkable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, New Haven County, Wolcott

Beer’d Brewing @ The Silo

January 20, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Beer'd: Near'd and Dear'd The Beer'd Brewing Company @ The Silo, Groton November 2022 The two Beer'd Brewing taprooms are probably about nine miles apart as a crow flies. The most direct driving route is about 10 and a half miles. The typically quickest driving route is over 13 miles, much of it on I-95. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Beer'd Brewing, Groton, New London County

East Coast Kombucha Company

January 12, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Doing the Kombucha-cha-cha East Coast Kombucha Company, Norwalk December 2022 "I hate kombucha." "Really? My wife and I drink it all the time! We love it!" "How? It tastes like vinegary garbage water." "You just haven't had good kombucha!" I've had this conversation a few times. I'm the negative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Fairfield County, kombucha, Norwalk

Spacecat Brewing Company

January 6, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

SoNo More Bad Breweries? Spacecat Brewing Company, Norwalk December 2022 I imagine that those of you casual readers who don't really care about yet another brewery trying to make it in Norwalk (the Bermuda Triangle of Breweries) only care to know why a brewery is named "Spacecat." Totally understand. My first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Fairfield County, Norwalk

Tree House Orchard & Farm Fermentory

December 16, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

By The Time They Got to Woodstock... Tree House Orchard & Farm Fermentory, Woodstock October 2022 I'm at a bit of a loss here. On the one hand, there's too much for me to say about Tree House The Company but on the other hand, I want to keep this page relatively simple and clean. That's how this outpost of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Cideries, Farms, Windham County, Woodstock

Quirk Works Brewing & Blendery

December 9, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Another One of My Quirks Quirk Works Brewing & Blendery, Danbury August 2022 "They're onto me! Are they onto me? They're not onto me. Maybe they're onto me?" Sigh. I can be quirky when it comes to my quite public website you're reading and my weirdly private persona. There was a time, when there were far fewer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Danbury, Fairfield County

Surfridge Brewing Company East

November 29, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Brah Surfridge Brewing Company East, Essex September 2022 There are three new-in-'22 breweries in the Lower Connecticut River Valley area, and the three couldn't be more different. Myrcene Ale Company in Old Saybrook is a small, straight-up, no-nonsense brewer's brewery. Coastline Brewing in Westbrook is shiny and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Essex, Middlesex County

Coastline Brewing Company

November 25, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

What The Floc? Coastline Brewing Company, Westbrook September 2022 2022 was interesting beer in the world of Connecticut craft beer brewing. The industry had exploded between 2013 and 2020, all the way up to the pandemic. But still, through 2020 and 2021, new breweries kept opening with relative few closing. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Middlesex County, westbrook

Concentric Brewing Company

November 11, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

The Circle of Life Concentric Brewing Company, Portland August 2021 A financial planner, a firefighter, and a physical therapist walk in a bar. "What's it gonna be?" asked the bartender. "I'm gonna open a new brewery in Berlin, one of the world's great beer cities!" said the physical therapist. "I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Middlesex County, Portland

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