You Can Take the Boy Out of Wall Street... Half Full Brewery, Stamford February 2020 This location - the original location - closed in October 2024 in favor of just running the larger, nicer, better located space at The Third Place. My "relationship" with Half Full is a funny one. Until I visited, it was by … [Read more...]
Better Half Brewing (Closed)
What’s the Lesser Half Like? Better Half Brewing, Bristol November 2019 This brewery ceased operations on 12/31/21 after listing their equipment on the sites that sell such things for a year or so. There is a very good brewery in Bristol that brews very good beer, spanning a wide array of styles. I very much … [Read more...]
Chaplin Museum (Closed)
Sorry Ol’ Chap Chaplin Museum, Chaplin The Chaplin Museum closed around 2012 or so. This is a really, really dumb page. It needn’t exist. But here we are. When I put together the CTMQ Town Guides for small, low-population towns like Chaplin I really want there to be a museum. Connecticut towns without … [Read more...]
Redding Beer Company (Closed)
RedDing-Ding-Ding! Redding Beer Company, Redding June 2019 The brewery closed quietly in early 2024. I am often challenged to write interesting and unique takes on the hundreds of museums in Connecticut that aren’t that discernible from a hundred similar museums. I take pride in being able to do so; sometimes … [Read more...]
Sunrise Drive Preserve & Ten Mile River Access
Nah, Man, Nah Sunrise Drive Preserve & Ten Mile River Access, Columbia September 2019 Hello. Thanks for clicking the link to this page. I’ve got good and bad news. The good news is you are an awesome person for reading, apparently, whatever the heck I write about. Thanks for being cool. The bad news … [Read more...]
Barley Head Brewery (Closed)
It Takes a Mystic Barley Head Brewery, Groton June 2019 The brewery closed in July 2024... then reopened with new owners as The Misfit Club a month later. The new owners are thinking of opening a brewery called Misfit Brewery at some point. Here we are, together again. About to discuss yet another tiny … [Read more...]
The Beeracks (Closed)
Beer: Rack ‘Em Up! The Beeracks, East Haven Multiple visits Armada Brewing opened up a nearby second location on River Street in New Haven in 2022 and left The Beeracks shortly thereafter. In late 2024, The Beeracks closed. You’re just going to have to go with me here. The path from the original Overshores … [Read more...]
Aspetuck Brew Lab (Closed)
Black Rockin' Aspetuck Brew Lab, Bridgeport July 2019 Aspetuck closed in November 2024. Journey with me, won’t you, to bucolic Black Rock, Connecticut, home of Aspetuck Brew Lab. Or, as we fancy boarding school Connecticutians say, “Ahhspehtuhck Brew Lahhhhhb in Blahhhhck Rohhck, Cohhhnecticuhhht.” No brewery … [Read more...]
Perfection Screw (Gone)
I’m a Child Perfection Screw, Wolcott Perfection Screw was bought by another company in April 2019 and is no longer. There’s no need for this on the esteemed pages of CTMQ. Yet, here we are. Perfection Screw and Rivet (whose signage only said “Perfection Screw”) was founded in 1952 and produced thousands of … [Read more...]
Fairfield Craft Ales (Closed)
Hellooooo Stratford! Fairfield Craft Ales, Stratford May 2019 The brewery closed in September 2022. You want to know how you know Connecticut was starving for independent craft breweries for a long time? You know this because a tiny little 35-seat brewery could open less than a mile from our state’s largest … [Read more...]
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