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...]
Third Place by Half Full Brewery
"Only Wanna Co-Work With Youuuuu" Third Place by Half Full Brewery, Stamford April 2022 When I wrote about Half Full Brewery, which is not too far away and also in Stamford, I focused a lot on the founder/owner's Wall Street and corporate roots. About how he, Conor Horrigan, left the Street to get into the brewery … [Read more...]
The Stack/Bear’s Smokehouse
Bearly Beer The Stack/Black Hog Brewing at Bear’s Smokehouse, New Haven June 2019 I was trying to sort something out for this page and came across the perfect Yelp! Review: Bear's Smokehouse New Haven or The Stack, which is it? Cafeteria-style service or waited tables, which is it? Should I get a drink at … [Read more...]
Area Two Experimental Brewing
Two Legit Area Two Experimental Brewery April 2019 Two Roads Brewery in Stratford, Connecticut prides itself on “taking the road not taken.” They are far and away the state’s largest and most successful brewery. They have far and away the widest distribution reach of any brewery in Connecticut. And apparently they … [Read more...]
Hooker Brewery at Colt
What’s the Hook? Thomas Hooker Brewery at Colt, Hartford August 2018 Ah, Hooker. One of the granddaddies of the local brewery scene. The incubator. The survivor. The innovator. For the nuskool Millennials who scoff at Hooker (for whatever dumb reasons), hear me out. The chance that the brewer at your … [Read more...]