New England brewerys with outbound bar

might check out Stony Creek in Branford CT. It's right on the water. There's a deck and a dock where you can pull right up in a boat. I've never been but people who have are generally impressed by the facility. (someone clearly spent a lot of money on it) It's BYOF but they frequently have food trucks on premise.

 

Stony Creek in Branford Ct just built a new.facility. it's right on the river, has a huge deck, small beach front with Adirondack chairs and hi top tables, also has a bocce court and cornhole boards. Pretty cool place. Could spend a few hours there. Also have food trucks......

 

Great minds think alike.......haha

 

Haven't been yet, but Wormtown's new patio is getting good reviews.

 

Buzzards Bay Brewing in Westport MA. Have an outdoor beer garden, food trucks, sometimes music and bring your own grillables. Close to Horseneck Beach which is really nice as well.

 

Long Trail comes to mind. Great back deck right on a creek.

 

Cambridge Brewing Company's outdoor beer garden!

 

Harpoons Windsor VT brewery has a great outside area. Fire pit, cornhole, badminton, picnic tables in the shade. Great place.

 

Cape Ann Brewing in Rockport has a beautiful deck right on the harbor. And Slumbrew's outdoor beer garden at Assembly Row is nice. Night Shift recently added a patio with a view of the Teddy Peanut Butter factory

 

I was there on Thursday. I would say Cisco is a better vibe all around if I had to compare the two. I would check out Stony Creek though.

 

Sat outside at Night Shift yesterday. They have probably ten tables. It's not exactly a scenic view (pretty industrial area) but it's always nice to drink outside when the weather permits.

 

Yes it's BYOF and to add on to your post there's usually local restaurants that deliver and have their menus on-site in order to aid in that. There's typically one food truck on a busy evening (Caseus grilled cheeses are the best!). The outside area is cool but always gets too crowded on the weekends. I recommend checking them out on a Thursday evening for your first time.

The only problem is that the beer is kind of "meh". I've tried about 10 or 11 beers from them and I only liked one or two.

 

We (Night Shift) are working on beefing up our patio so its a little less raw/industrial feeling. Also, working on getting a bar out there so you don't have to go back inside once you are out on the patio. Cheers!

 

Sat outside under the roof at Lost Nation in Morrisville VT on Saturday. The roof keeps the sun off of the 12 or so picnic type tables and benches there was wait service from the bar and the food was out of this world. $5 for a 20 oz Gose.

 

In addition to some of the others mentioned (the CBC patio being my most frequent brewery patio haunt), here are some other New England breweries with excellent outdoor seating:

• Schilling (Littleton, NH) has an amazing deck overhanging the Ammonoosuc River (one of my favorites)
• Woodstock (Woodstock, NH) has a very nice patio right out front with tall pines and plenty of flowers
• Martha's Exchange (Nashua, NH) has good sidewalk seating
• Zero Gravity (American Flatbread, Burlington, VT) has a cool alley patio
• Trapp (Stowe, VT) has a beautiful meadow with an incredible mountain vista replete with picnic tables
• In'finiti (Portland, ME) has a cool deck right on the harbor docks
• Marshall Wharf (Belftast, ME): I haven't been there yet, but I'm very much looking forward to stopping by their waterfront patio on my way up to Acadia later this week

 

Bad Martha on MV is an open air taproom plus they have a patio. No top notch beers but the atmosphere more than makes up for that.

 

I've been digging that patio. That said, it's really just a patio in a parking lot in Worcester, a little different than, say, Harpoon (VT) or Long Trail where you're surrounded by the Green Mountains.

 

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