A Place To Chat, Chew, and Drink Brew Woodbury Brewing Company, Woodbury June 2019 There's a formula for naming breweries and it's a pretty boring formula. One brewery began by going against that formula. Of course it would be weird if I wasn't talking about this one, Woodbury Brewing Company. Yes, this … [Read more...]
The Crossings Restaurant & Brewpub
Crossings This Off The List The Crossings, Putnam Alright, look. I hate to be "that guy," but with certain things I kinda sorta hafta do it. When I am tasked with "completing" Putnam and have been visiting and writing about every brewery and brewery-like entity in the state for a decade, I must visit The … [Read more...]
Food & Drink
Restaurants, Breweries, Wineries, Cheese, Chocolate, Ice Cream, and More! This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for the many food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over the years and I've added a few more based on some "Best of" books as well as my own … [Read more...]
City Steam Brewery Cafe
I Could Go For A Steam City Steam Brewery Café, Hartford Several Visits over the years [*What follows is a somewhat long, but fascinating (to me) history of the building and all things steam in downtown Hartford. So here’s the elevator conversation about City steam: Really cool building, pretty decent food, fun … [Read more...]
The Cambridge House Brew Pub
The Best Reason to go to Granby? Cambridge House Brewpub, Granby Several Visits over the years It makes no sense that I’m finding this page difficult to write. You’d think that a place I’ve been to ten times over the years would be easy to write about. But it’s not. And I don’t know why. One reason it’s … [Read more...]
SoNo Brewhouse (RIP)
So, No They Don’t Brew Beer Here SoNo Brewhouse, South Norwalk Multiple Visits [Late 2014 Update: They closed.] I have a love-hate relationship with the SoNo Brewhouse. First I’ll divulge what I hate: I hate the fact that it bills itself a “brewhouse” but doesn’t actually brew any beer. This is especially … [Read more...]
Willimantic Brewing Company
Willi Or Won’t He? (Listen to Reddit Again) Willimantic Restaurant & Pub Brewery, Willimantic A’ight, listen up. I went to Willimantic Brewing Company, officially the Willimantic Restaurant & Pub Brewery, colloquially just Willibrew, which is how it shall be referred to henceforth – years before I started CTMQ. I … [Read more...]