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...]
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Spacecat Brewing Company
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...]
Tree House Orchard & Farm Fermentory
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...]
Quirk Works Brewing & Blendery
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...]
Surfridge Brewing Company East
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...]
Coastline Brewing Company
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...]
Concentric Brewing Company
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...]
Myrcene Ale Company
Myr Kinda Cene Myrcene Ale Company, Old Saybrook September 2022 "Oh boy, here comes mean ol' Steve again with another take down of a new Connecticut brewery not many have even heard of..." "Yeah, man, he really needs to give these new businesses that take our money for a product they produce months and months … [Read more...]
Brewbury
100% Missed Shots Brewbury, Middlebury August 2022 Connecticut breweries located along linear/bike paths have become a thing. There are several now, and many play up the relationship between craft brewing and bike riding. I'm happy to be the one to tell you that Brewbury in Middlebury is right along the Middlebury … [Read more...]
East Coast Cidery
Why? East Coast Cidery, Enfield September 2022 It crossed my mind for about two seconds to drive up to Enfield to "visit" East Coast Cidery. But only for two seconds. There would be no point in my doing so. East Coast Cidery is the third business borne from Powder Hollow Brewing, and I've been to the location … [Read more...]
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