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CTMQ > Food & Drink > Breweries

Brass Works Brewing Company

May 18, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

I Fowl'd Up Brass Works Brewing Company, Waterbury March 2019 Funny story... (not really) - there was a time when I perhaps cared a bit too much about brewery stuff in Connecticut. I don't mean to say I was binge-drinking Connecticut beer every other day. Not at all. I mean that I was on top of things. Like, I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: brass works brewing, New Haven County, Waterbury

Witchdoctor Brewing Company

May 15, 2019 by Steve 2 Comments

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bang bang... Witchdoctor Brewing Company, Southington November 2018 Some of you must be familiar with that terrible song "The Witchdoctor." You know, the "Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang walla walla, bang bang" song? Interesting fact: the guy who wrote and originally … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Hartford County, Southington, witchdoctor brewing company

Book Review: Connecticut Beer

May 10, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

From Nutmeg Beer to Beer with Nutmeg Connecticut Beer; A History of Nutmeg State Brewing By Will Siss Reading this book in 2019 is a surreal experience. At least for close watchers of the Connecticut brewery and beer scene. Published in 2015, Waterbury-American columnist and school teacher Will Siss simply could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Breweries, Everything Else Tagged With: Connecticut Books, Connecticut History Books

BruRm @ BAR

May 6, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Grazing the BAR BruRm @ BAR, New Haven April 2019 If you weren't reading a page about the horribly named BruRm @ BAR right now and I asked you, "hey, what's the longest running brewery under the same ownership in the same space in 2019 Connecticut?" what would you guess? Don't even front and tell me you'd say … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: New Haven, New Haven County, Pizza

Noble Jay Brewing Company (Closed)

April 29, 2019 by Steve 4 Comments

No-bull Jay Noble Jay Brewing Company, East Lyme March 2019 Noble Jay closed in late the summer of 2020. I met Jesse Baldwin of Noble Jay Brewing in the summer of 2015. My man was hustling... We were at the first Hops for Hope Brewfest and Jesse was representing his brewery that was to open soon after that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, East Lyme, New London County, noble jay brewing

Great Falls Brewing Company

April 25, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Great Hall From Fire Great Falls Brewing Co., North Canaan April 2019 Just when a brewery opens in some sparsely populated far-flung Connecticut burg, it seems another one pops up in a smaller and farther-flung burg. I happen to love North Canaan and extreme northwestern Connecticut - and I really love that the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: great falls brewing, Litchfield County, North Canaan

Kinsmen Brewing Company

April 3, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

I've Got Friends in Bro Places Kinsmen Brewing Company, Southington September 2018 Kinsmen: Sure the fancy definition has something to do with relatives and such, but colloquially, your kinsmen are your family. And sure, “family” means blood relatives, but it also means much more. In the case of Kinsmen Brewing, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Hartford County, kinsmen brewing company, Southington

Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery

March 28, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Not a Clown Show Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery, Bethel December 2018 In this time of wonderfulness on the Connecticut beer front, it seems like every town gets a brewery. I’m talkin’ Colebrook, Salem, Canaan… and Bethel. Now, Bethel does have a much more vibrant and fun “downtown” area than many people think. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Bethel, Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewpub, Fairfield County

Cold Creek Brewery & Tavern (Closed)

March 9, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Cold Creek Brewery & Tavern Ellington Multiple 2015-2019 visits Cold Creek called it quits in June 2021, noting it had nothing to do with the pandemic. Many are still scratching their heads why they shut down the brewery and were in fact contracting out of Powder Hollow in Enfield for the year before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Cold Creek Brewery, Ellington, Tolland County

Problem Solved Brewing

January 30, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Problem Solved Brewing East Windsor September 2018 A brewery gets too big for its britches and decides to vacate their original space and move to a custom built new joint over in Suffield. What to do with the now empty space in East Windsor? Problem Solved. A couple of well-respected homebrewing friends … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: East Windsor, Hartford County, Problem Solved Brewing

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