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...]
Almost Famous Brewing Company (Closed)
Internet Famous Almost Famous Brewing Company, East Granby April 2021 The brewery closed in late December 2025. Luppoleto Brewing moved in in June 2026. 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 … [Read more...]
Al’s Hot Dog Stand (Closed)
Relish Connecticut's Bounty Al's Hot Dog Stand, Naugatuck April 2022 Al's closed in February 2024 to make way for an expanded gas station. I started "completing" the Roadfood "Eat Before You Die" list what? a decade ago? I actually plowed through the 60 or so places that was still open and then Michael and … [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...]
Cajun: Roux (Closed)
Let's Geaux! Roux Cajun Eatery, Simsbury March 2022 Roux closed in November 2023. At that time, the owners were planning on opening elsewhere in a different town. A rare day off from work with the boys in school? Be still my heart. A Cajun eatery has come to Connecticut? Clog my heart's arteries. … [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...]
Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company (Closed)
Humble Rodent Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company, Middletown First Visit January 2015, several subsequent visits The brewery closed in February 2025 after their canning line broke and a contract with Twelve Percent wasn't making financial sense. Call it education It was somewhere in between You gave me some … [Read more...]
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