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Transcend Beer Crafters
When: December 17th, 2025 Where: 45 Northwest Drive, Unit A, Plainville, CT 06062 Transcend Beer Crafters is Plainville’s newest brewery, opened in 2025. While the outside of the taproom makes it look like another garage style brewery, the inside shows how modern it actually is. The taproom is open and spacious with an event space…
Longview Ciderhouse
When: September 19th, 2025 Where: 36 Long Bottom Rd, Southington, CT 06489 Longview Ciderhouse is owned and operated by Rogers Orchards and is an outdoor only facility. The name comes from the long view visitors get from their hilltop porch, where people can see the Hartford skyline all the way from Southington. Rogers Orchards sets…
Counterweight Brewing Company
When: June 18th, 2025 Where: 7 Diana Court, Cheshire, CT Counterweight Brewing Company was founded in Hamden in 2017 but they outgrew their original location pretty quickly. In 2022, they relocated to their current and much larger facility in Cheshire. The taproom at Counterweight Brewing was one of the largest I had seen with a…
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We’re two museum professionals located in Connecticut who fell pretty hard for craft beer back in 2017. Our interest in beer has turned into a (healthy-ish) obsession over the past 6 years. Together we travel along the CT Beer Trail collecting stamps, posting on Untapped, and drinking delicious local beers! #CTbeerdrinkers
Chris is a CT native with a few great loves: his dogs Apple and Cinnamon, the Colorado Avalanche, and caramel apple tartlets from Omaha Steaks. More importantly, he loves dark beers: milk stouts, imperial stouts, porters, and the occasional milkshake IPA (just to keep things fresh and prove he’s not a one type-beer-drinker).
Shannon is a PA transplant who loves the Pittsburgh Penguins, lobster rolls, and the dog camera she uses to watch her sisters two dogs, Chewy and Titan, who live in Virginia. Beer wise, she’ll drink almost anything: ales, lagers, IPA’s, milkshake IPA’s, stouts, porters, and pilsners.
Nick is Chris’s older brother and is Shannon’s replacement after she moved to Ohio to drink their beer instead. (Now we just visit each other and show them all the breweries in our area).
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