Ten Pennies For Your Thoughts East Hartford Brewing Group, East Hartford December 2021 This brewery closed in December 2025. I waffled and wavered far longer than you'd want to believe on how best to present this page. Should I just write an addendum to my original Olde Burnside Brewing page? Or create a whole … [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...]
Evening Sky Brewing Company (Closed)
Not Lyon, It's Good! Evening Sky Brewing Company, Burlington December 2021 The brewery closed in August 2024. Evening Sky caught my eye in 2019 or so for a couple of reasons. One, I had "completed" Burlington the year prior with the smug assumption that nothing new would be coming to the town requiring me to … [Read more...]
Windsor’s Nuclear Reactor
A Glowing Review Knoll Labs Nuclear Reactor Site Windsor This property is now the site of a massive mixed-used housing development called Great Pond Village. It will include 7 miles of trails, so you can walk around and try to remember what this place was like in the 1960's. Connecticut is currently home to one … [Read more...]
(Former) National Champion: Striped Maple
Acer pensylvanicum, Striped Maple Kongscut Mountain/Meshomasic State Forest, Glastonbury Big tree fans and big tree fans alike, you might want to grab a tissue for this one. Glastonbury's former national champion striped maple tree is dead. Like, snapped near the base and lying on the forest floor dead. Dead. … [Read more...]
Sub Way (Gone)
Underwater Franchisees? Sub Way and Subway, Milford Subway moved their headquarters to Shelton in October 2023 to a road named Corporate Drive. Lame. For whatever reason, people are often surprised that Subway is a Connecticut Company. Why? Every company has to start somewhere. Maybe because in Connecticut sub … [Read more...]
Stewards of the Land Brewery (Closed)
Hard to Swallow Stewards of the Land Brewery, North Branford February 2020 Closed December 2024. I visited early on and described it below. In 2026, Kent Falls Brewing took over the space for their satellite brewery. Tragically, founder Alex DeFrancesco passed away in August 2026. The barn swallow (Hirundo … [Read more...]
The Blue Oar (Closed)
Eat Here... Oar Else The Blue Oar, Haddam July 2021 The Blue Oar permanently closed in April 2023. Lists and listicles are as much of an epidemic as the COVID pandemic. These lazy lists are endemic across online publications these days. I mostly ignore all of them - especially any about "Best Connecticut … [Read more...]
Fifth Year Brewery (Closed)
5THYEA B EWE Y Fifth Year Brewery, West Haven And in their Fifth Year, they closed... ... Or, more accurately, in their eighth year of pretending to exist in any real or tangible way, they never opened. Say what? Am I really writing a page about a brewery that was never actually a brewery? Yeah. I am. But! … [Read more...]
Cherry Brook Farm and Vineyard (Closed)
Cherry on Top Cherry Brook Farm and Vineyard, Canton June 2021 Cherry Brook closed in November 2021. I've always been honest about Connecticut wine. It's no secret that our climate isn't exactly perfect for varietal grape growing, and pretending otherwise is foolish. And most of our wineries don't pretend, … [Read more...]
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