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CT H4H: Hanging Hills Brewery

August 3, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 17 Hanging Hills Brewery, Hartford You want Hartford? Hanging Hills is Hartford. Their original pre-opening name was Whaleworks brewing, as a nod to the departed NHL Franchise. They have a beer named Hartbeat; a play on Hartford. One of their owners worked at Aetna for many years (like … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Hog River Brewing

August 2, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 16 Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford If you happened to pick up the latest issue of Yankee Brew News you surely noticed the handsome visage of one Mr. Ben Braddock on the cover. Ben is the owner and brewer at Hartford's Hog River Brewing. If you happen to have a chance to speak with … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: CT Girls Pint Out

July 31, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 15 CT Girls Pint Out As a small, all-volunteer, relatively new non-profit, CT Hops for Hope can’t simply go after the corporate sponsors other events can. We have no ties to a business and don’t exactly have a marketing department. In some ways, this frees us to attract the best breweries … [Read more...]

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CT H4H Beer’d

July 29, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 14 Beer'd Brewing Company, Stonington For those of you who know me personally or at least have kept up with the explosion of the local brewing industry and my thoughts on it, you know I love Beer'd. I've loved Aaren and Precious and the whole crew in the southeast corner of the state … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Black Pond Brews

July 26, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 11 Black Pond Brews, Danielson CT Hops for Hope is forced to limit the number of breweries who can pour at the event, as we are a small all-volunteer organization. We simply can't manage a billion breweries nor can we afford space to accommodate them all. (As it is, we WILL have over 40!) … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Black Hog Brewing

July 25, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 10 Black Hog Brewing, Oxford This is random, but I just read a bit about the Black Hog crew and am impressed with their resumes. Head brewer Tyler Jones holds a Chemical Engineerin degree. Another guy there is an Army Ranger. Taproom maven Marissa worked at Yale in geochemical research. … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Austin Design

July 24, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 9 Austin Design, MA/VT I’m proud of every part of CT Hops for Hope. It’s continually amazing to me how many people give their unpaid time and energy to the event and the cause. One of my tasks is to help secure sponsors for the event to cover the upfront costs. That way, we are able to … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Fox Farm Brewery

July 22, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 8 Fox Farm Brewery, Salem As i continue to write these CT Hops for Hope Spotlight pages, I'm continually pausing to process what it is I'm writing. After all, our little brewfest has secured a slew of breweries that you won't find at bigger fests. We don't pay for the beer and yet many … [Read more...]

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CTH4H: New Park Brewing

July 21, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 7 New Park Brewing Company, West Hartford It would be tough to argue which new CT brewery is generating the most excitement these days, for there are many in contention. One of them, without a doubt, is New Park Brewing in West Hartford. And that excitement is certainly warranted. As a … [Read more...]

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CT H4H: Allagash Brewing Co.

July 20, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 6 Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, ME When Organizing CT Hops for Hope, we are continually humbled at the response we get from breweries. This is something I could write about for days. It's amazing, really. Our list of breweries is, I think, as good as it gets in Connecticut. While we … [Read more...]

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