Turning Hartford's Bathroom Into Its Living Room Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits As every Hartford area resident knows, today's Park River used to be called the Hog River. (It also used to be called The Little River, which is memorialized by the nearby and awesome Little River Restoratives. If … [Read more...]
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Outer Light Brewing Company
Lights Out Outer Light Brewing Company, Groton Multiple Visits Outer Light makes really good beer. Outer Light has always made really good beer. I'm starting this page with that because I've always felt that the brewery is sort of "forgotten" by much of the state. Partly due to its location down in Groton, … [Read more...]
Hanging Hills Brewing Company (Closed)
Hanging in There Hanging Hills Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hanging Hills closed in March 2020. Sometimes I am forced to write up a brewery after it closes. And that's never fun. Like right now. This isn't fun. Wait... lemme go grab a fresh Hanging Hills beer out of the fridge to lighten the mood a … [Read more...]
Armada Brewing River Street
Every King Needs His Castle Armada Brewing River Street, New Haven August 2022 Traditionally, Fair Haven has always been the forgotten polyp that hangs on to New Haven. It's an island, of sorts, in many ways. Fair Haven is bounded by the Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers that separates it from it's daddy New Haven and … [Read more...]
Bad Dog Brewing Company
Bad to the Bone Bad Dog Brewing Company, Torrington February 2022 There have been over 100 breweries in Connecticut for a few years as I write this in 2022. There had never been a brewery inside a museum - or a museum inside a brewery - in Connecticut before 2020. (I write that having no idea how true that … [Read more...]
The Boroughs Brewing Company
Digging Out of a Burrow The Boroughs Brewing Company, Killingly July 2022 *Peeks around the corner* ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I... I can't do it. I was trying to live by the credo of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … [Read more...]
Black Pond Brews
Black Swamp (Yankees) Black Pond Brews, Killingly July 2015 & July 2022 Black Pond Brews has been around since 2014. I don't know why that surprises me, but it does. I think it has something to do with the fact that they've been doing their thing out in Killingly, one of those black holes of Connecticut. They … [Read more...]
Epicure Brewing
Epicurio Epicure Brewing, Norwich August 2017 Summer of 2017... approaching that assumed critical mass of 50 Connecticut breweries (Epicure was the 48th to open) and how that was going to be absolute maximum that the state could support? Epicure Brewing is located right next door to These Guys Brewing - both … [Read more...]
Candlewood Brewing Company (Closed)
A Candle in the Wind Candlewood Brewing Company, New Milford July 2022 Candlewood Brewing closed in July 2022 Talk about a Bad Dream. Candlewood Brewing was one of the shortest-lived Connecticut breweries of the 21st century. It opened in late January 2021 and hung it up in early July 2022; about 16 months. … [Read more...]
Almost Famous Brewing Company
Internet Famous Almost Famous Brewing Company, East Granby April 2021 Here's an odd quirk about this brewery that looks like every other brewery in a nondescript business park in a nondescript section of a Connecticut town: It was featured on WFSB's "Something's Brewing" segment not once, not twice, not three … [Read more...]
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