Icy Church Daggers of Spite Farmington's Town Seal I am not familiar with all 169 Connecticut town seals. Nor do I ever intend to be. So I can't say with 100% confidence which one is my favorite or the coolest or the worst... though I have my suspicions. For instance, I'm going to guess that no town seal will … [Read more...]
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Non-CT Travel, Hikes, Books, & Movies
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro
Why State Highpointing?
US National Parks
Modern Library's Top 100 Novels
Top 100 Books Tallies & Reviews
Re-examining CT’s 10 Highest Peaks
This Page now only exists for historic context File this post in the "How Steve's Brain Works" section of throwaway CTMQ pages. I've written many times that of all the stuff I write about, it's the hiking and peakbagging stuff that excites me most. I know that comes as a surprise to the museum and beer folks, but... … [Read more...]
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro
This Page Needs More Prominence! Highpointing & Peakbagging Don't tell anyone, but this is perhaps my favorite pursuit. Moreso than museums. If I had the time, I’d devote a lot of time to these lists. As life would have it, what with two little kids and a job and all that, these are pretty much life-long … [Read more...]
Advertise on CTMQ
For years I’ve threatened that I’ll add some unobtrusive advertisements to CTMQ. In fact, I’ve been running one for my friend Nick Gamma’s Hops & Branding company – which happened to tie-in nicely with the CT Hops for Hope brewfest I help organize. (We raised $36,000 for the Smith-Magenis Syndrome Research … [Read more...]
In the – And ON the News
Pub Crawl I was on WFBS this morning! Will update this later if the segment goes online. Over my 11 years of writing CTMQ, I’ve been featured in all the places you’d expect. The Courant, Connecticut Magazine, WNPR, various smaller papers, and oh yeah, The New York Times. Seriously. I swear! As we near … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Firefly Hollow Brewing
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 21 Firefly Hollow Brewing, Bristol With Firefly, I always feel compelled to use the official name at least in the titles of the pages I write about them. Even if no one actually ever uses the “Hollow” part of their name. I also always feel compelled to explain what it is that I love … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Westbrook Lobster
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 20 Westbrook Lobster, Wallingford & Clinton Everyone has a favorite place in Connecticut that serves a nice line-up of craft beer. If you’re into “the scene,” you could probably rattle off 10 or so that are well-known. I would sincerely hope that one of those 10 would be Westbrook … [Read more...]
CT H4H: SingleCut Beersmiths
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 19 SingleCut Beersmiths, NYC While CT Hops for Hope certainly focuses on the great breweries of Connecticut, we do venture outside of our borders to bring in some of the best that distribute here. So of course we had to have SingleCut from Queens. When they came to Connecticut, it caused … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Counter Weight Brewing
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 18 Counter Weight Brewing, Hamden I had the pleasure this morning of appearing on First Thing Fairfield County to help promote CT Hops for Hope. (Thanks Ken!) I was all done by 10:30 AM and headed back north. No breweries are open in the morning, but as I passed the exit for Counter … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Hanging Hills Brewery
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 17 Hanging Hills Brewery, Hartford You want Hartford? Hanging Hills is Hartford. Their original pre-opening name was Whaleworks brewing, as a nod to the departed NHL Franchise. They have a beer named Hartbeat; a play on Hartford. One of their owners worked at Aetna for many years (like … [Read more...]
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