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...]
CT H4H: Hog River Brewing
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 16 Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford If you happened to pick up the latest issue of Yankee Brew News you surely noticed the handsome visage of one Mr. Ben Braddock on the cover. Ben is the owner and brewer at Hartford's Hog River Brewing. If you happen to have a chance to speak with … [Read more...]
CT H4H: CT Girls Pint Out
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 15 CT Girls Pint Out As a small, all-volunteer, relatively new non-profit, CT Hops for Hope can’t simply go after the corporate sponsors other events can. We have no ties to a business and don’t exactly have a marketing department. In some ways, this frees us to attract the best breweries … [Read more...]
CT H4H Beer’d
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 14 Beer'd Brewing Company, Stonington For those of you who know me personally or at least have kept up with the explosion of the local brewing industry and my thoughts on it, you know I love Beer'd. I've loved Aaren and Precious and the whole crew in the southeast corner of the state … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Black Pond Brews
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 11 Black Pond Brews, Danielson CT Hops for Hope is forced to limit the number of breweries who can pour at the event, as we are a small all-volunteer organization. We simply can't manage a billion breweries nor can we afford space to accommodate them all. (As it is, we WILL have over 40!) … [Read more...]