Back East Brewery Named Connecticut's Best Brewery

Connecticut Magazine has awarded Back East Brewing Co. the title of "best brewery" in the state. For more, see below:

BLOOMFIELD, CT, Sept. 18, 2017 –Bloomfield’s Back East Brewing Co. has been named the best brewery in Connecticut by Connecticut Magazine.  In their 20^th anniversary issue, the magazine singled out 213 of the state’s “bests” as voted by their readers.

In the magazine’s September issue, they lauded the five-year old brewery with these words: “There are an ever-increasing number of excellent breweries in our state, but none have had the year Back East did. In June, Draft Magazine ranked three of its IPAs among the top 50 in America, Rakautra at No. 21, Intergalactic Lupulinary at No. 16, and Ice Cream Man No. 5. These unfiltered, low-bitterness IPAs have ranked at the top or near the top in blind taste tests members of our editorial staff have participated in and consistently draw long lines of beer lovers.”

“This is a great honor for us.  Craft beer in Connecticut has come so far since we first opened our doors in 2012, and we’re delighted to be ranked among the state’s best,” says Back East co-found Tony Karlowicz.  “When we founded this business after brewing beer in Ed’s garage (Ed Fabrycki is Back East’s co-founder) we could never have imaged a year like this with honors on a local and national level.  We’re excited that the readers of Connecticut Magazine enjoy what we do well enough to name us as the state’s best brewery.”

About Back East Brewery

Back East is a craft brewery located in Bloomfield, CT, with distribution throughout Connecticut and Western Massachusetts in cans and on draft.  They brew over 20 varieties of beer, some year-round and others seasonally.  Three of their IPAs have been recognized among the nation’s 50 best by Draft Magazine.  Back East was started in 2012 by cousins and co-founders Tony Karlowicz and Edward Fabrycki, Jr.  For more information go to http://www.backeastbrewing.com/