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...]
Garden of Ideas (Closed)
It Was a Good Idea While it Lasted Garden of Ideas, Ridgefield June 2017 The Garden of Ideas Closed in September 2019. Things open. Things close. That's just the way things work in America. However, when some things close, they continue on in some way. I imagine the Garden of Ideas, nestled in a corner of … [Read more...]
Powder Hollow Brewery Middletown (Closed)
Hollow Thoughts Powder Hollow Brewing Company, Middletown May 2022 This location closed in May 2023. If you want to read a page on this website that shows you that I know nothing, this is the page for you. Or, looking at it differently, if you want to read a page on this website that shows the 21st century … [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...]
Fat Orange Cat Brewing (Closed)
FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits The brewery closed its taproom in December 2021, moving the entire operation to a contract at Twelve Percent Brewing Project in North Haven. FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed … [Read more...]
The Nut Museum
I'd Go to a Nut Theme Park Transient March 2022 Yes! Finally! Back in 2006 when this website had a different name and a far more limited mission, I was bummed that I'd missed out on what was perhaps Connecticut's most famous quirky museum. Today, we have many dozens of similar eccentric little museums - and I … [Read more...]
Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)
Adding to the Canon Salisbury When I began this website in 2006, the Salisbury Cannon Museum's website was exactly the same as it is in 2022. The same pictures, the same URL, and the same note that it is "currently closed." I don't know about you, but "currently closed" offers hope that it will reopen someday. … [Read more...]
Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)
Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]
Huntington House Museum (Closed)
A Hunting We Will Go... Unfulfilled Windsor Way back in the beginning of CTMQ in 2006, back when it was Connecticut Museum Quest and was solely focused on museums... this museum in Windsor had already (just) closed. I had no chance of ever seeing it for the purposes of this website. Therefore, it falls outside of … [Read more...]
Windsor’s Nuclear Reactor
A Glowing Review Knoll Labs Nuclear Reactor Site Windsor Connecticut is currently home to one nuclear powerplant: Millstone in Waterford. We used to have another - Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, now decommissioned - and there are, of course, nuclear submarines stationed in Groton. But there was another nuclear … [Read more...]
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