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Little House Brewing

4.7 (60 reviews)
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Closed 12:00 pm - 6:00 PM
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Michael W.

Man I love this place. If you haven't visited Little House you're missing out! Great vibes, great service, great beer. The little house is truly little so either get here early for a seat or hope for the best. Otherwise you'll be sitting outside so wear a lot of layers if you're visiting in the winter! They have a great variety of beers guaranteed to please everyone in your group. Plus you're within walking distance to some of the best pizza and ice cream in the area. We drove about 35 min to get here, parking is impossible, but it's 100% worth it. Take the ride, you won't regret it!

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Ana B.

Chester is such a cute little town, its filled with little resturants and stores, and so much charm. I've been wanting to check out their Little House Brewery, but it's impossible to get inside on the weekend, because it's so busy and so tiny. Last night after work some friends decided to go there for beers and trivia, even though it's a 45 minute drive for me I still decided to go. You can really see how little it is inside, when there were so few people. For such a little house, they have a lot of beer that they brew. I had two, Rare Candy and Fruit Stripes. Rare Candy looks sour, from its very light yellow color, it is double dry hopped, and has a very smoky taste to it. So unexpected, but I really enjoyed. Fruit Stripes, is as expected a fruity sour. As soon as I saw the rich raspberry color, I knew it would be my pick of the evening. It's bursting with raspberry, strawberry and watermelon juices! Delicious! I also sampled Cookin' By the Book. This is a stout, but tastes like chocolate cake. This is my pick for next time. We had a great time playing trivia and enjoying these delicious beers at Little House!

Francesca D.

Came for a Sunday Funday! Very cute and cozy inside. The bartender was super friendly and helped us decide what beer to try. Out back was more outdoor seating, perfect place to relax & chill on a beautiful fall day!

A dog waiting patiently in line like the rest of us dogs.
Jeffrey G.

A slice of heaven. Great beer, excellent community, beautiful setting. The mouse that roared - a totally innovative small brewery with a great back yard beer garden, top notch product. I fell in love with this place on first sight/sip. I wish I lived around the corner instead of 3000 miles away.

Inside at the bar
Sarah R.

Little house is without a doubt one of the best breweries in the state of CT! Despite the small size, they consistently crank out some of the best flavors and types of beer you could ask for! The staff are always friendly and it truly feels like home every time you walk through the door. There's plenty of seats both indoors and out front and out back! Some nights there's vendors for crafts and even trivia. It's a fun spot to be, right downtown in the heart of Chester. Do yourself a favor and stop in!

Steven H.

Stopped in for a beer. Cute place. Indoor and outdoor seating. NEIPA was decent. Steph got the hard cider.

The back patio
Matthew L.

Little House Brewing Company is a craft brewery that opened in Chester, Connecticut in August 2018. It was founded by friends Carlisle Schaeffer and Sam Wagner. The two met in 2010 when they were students at Vassar College. They were both members of the varsity Cross Country and Track & Field teams and bonded over long hours of running. Low and behold, the two also had a passion for brewing beer. It just so happens that the college was founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, who made his fortune in the brewing world. Vassar's brewery was one of the largest and most successful of its time, exporting beer all over the country. After the two friends graduated, Sam headed off to Minneapolis while Carlisle went to work at Cottrell Brewing Company in Stonington. The two would reunite years later with the intention of opening their own brewery. The location chosen was a circa 1836 townhouse that had housed everything over the years from a meat market to post office, barbershop to bakery. I first visited Little House Brewing in July 2019. I had cycled to Chester all the way from my home in North Haven and worked up quite a thirst. I first stopped at Otto down the street for a Margherita pizza to go and then I headed to the brewery. The location is a really cute, cozy place, which is very fitting for the street and town it resides. After looking over their menu, I ordered a sampler flight which included a Graf (beer/cider hybrid that they brewed in collaboration with Spoke + Spy Ciderworks), a Sour Gose (brewed in collaboration with Tox Brewing Company), an IPA, a New England IPA, and a Coffee Porter (brewed with freshly roasted Ashlawn Farm Coffee's Black Angus beans). All of the beers were great and paired well with my pizza. Although I tend to prefer IPAs, stouts and porters, my favorite beer of the flight was the sour gose named "Chips and Dip". It was brewed with tortilla chips and mango salsa and tasted just like it. I ordered a crowler of it to take home. I'll definitely return again when I'm in the area! Be sure to look out for Kirby: the resident brew pug.

"Don't call us cute" NEIPA @6.6%abv
Gerald K.

My third time visiting the area to see my lady's family and finally i made my long awaited stop in this gem for a nice hazy ipa pack to-go and man did it deliver, love the vibe of this place too. New favorite brewery in this tri-town area and suuuper stoked to try more of their offerings, don't sleep on this powerhouse of radness!

Rosanna M.

Continuing on central Connecticut's brewery tour during my vacay back to my home state, our last stop was at Little House Brewing located in the quaint, small town of Chester. Little House Brewing is located among other little shops in the town's center, and the structure itself is so cute, with the name very fitting for the brewery! Fun fact: Little House is located in a building that is almost 200 years old. The inside is small and intimate, and there is a patio in front with ample seating for the warmer weather. They have some snacks and bakery items for sale from The Drunk Alpaca, which incorporates some of Little House's beers into the snacks and bakery goods. That's pretty cool! I decided to get a flight of the Everything is Upside Down Now (IPA - milkshake/lactose), Kirb Appeal (sour/fruit), Perfectly Splendid (IPA - black), and Gone Muddin' (porter with coffee from Columbia). I would have to say my favorites were the Everything is Upside Down Now and the Gone Muddin'. Gone Muddin' had the right amount of coffee in it, and all the beers were pretty smooth. The beer menu is pretty small since it is a smaller brewery, but even for a small menu there is a great selection of different types of craft beers. Another stop you need to add to your CT brewery tour. Little House is one I'll definitely be back to when I come back to visit.

Our flight!
Kelly C.

I've been following this place on Instagram for a while now but I live in Charleston, SC, so I had to wait for my next visit home to check it out. Luckily, I was in the area on Friday night and finally got a chance! My friend and I shared a flight of the Tommy's Tangerine Explosion, the Brutale Malus mashup with Spoke&Spy Ciderworks, the Strawberry cider from Spoke&Spy, and the Orange Ya Glad We Brewed a Sour. None of the options really blew me away, but they were all good. The strawberry was just one notch too sweet for me, while the orange sour fell just below my desired tartness. HOWEVER, being a brand-new brewery, I was really impressed. So often they have a handful of beers that are mostly IPAs or wheat beers, and Little House has a wide range available so early on in their run -- and what they have is good. I am excited to see what comes next. The brewery itself is adorable. They have a tiny front porch (sat about 8 comfortably, 10 with a squeeze) and a nice sitting area inside. Two restrooms, one of which uses recycled sink water to fill the toilet basin. The staff was friendly and helpful, and I took home two growlers as thank-you gifts for my cousins. I should have gotten one for myself, too!

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Little House is a great little brewery in a great location. If you get to Chester, make time to stop in for a beer.

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Nice brewery. Good cider. Small space but bartenders were friendly. Love that they sell bags of pretzels.

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Great little brewery with funny and friendly owners and staff. They go out of their way to deliver excellent customer service.

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Although I tend to prefer IPAs, stouts and porters, my favorite beer of the flight was the sour gose named "Chips and Dip".

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OEC Brewing

4.1(65 reviews)
35.1 mi
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On Saturday, 7/5/2025 after a hike in Oxford, we needed to cool off so decided to check out OEC…read moreBrewing. Are we glad we did! It's a super cute brewery with games, inside and outdoor seating, an excellent wine list, great beers with beers to go from around the globe, matched with excellent service. We didn't try any of the food offerings which is mostly pizza and pretzels, but we really enjoyed our time. The bartender seemed to know everyone and was so helpful and friendly to us. The wine glasses are very nice. Go with complete confidence.

I work a couple miles away from here and feel pretty privileged about it. Before I worked there,…read moreOxford seemed a long way to go to try out yet another CT brewery (they weren't distributed back then, so you had to go there or be lucky enough to find it on tap somewhere) and they sounded very niche and weird. And they kinda are in the best way possible. Their selection of beers is pretty amazing in that you won't find 6 different IPAs, 2 fruity sours and a lager. Here you'll find Asian style lager, black lager, 3 different pils, 4 experimental sours, a traditional Berliner Weiss, an English Bitter, and that's just their own brews. They're also an importer and offer bottles from a variety of European and Asian brewers. Walking in transports you to a European beer hall with high ceilings and long wooden tables. There's also a nice deck out back to enjoy nature and a little game room overlooking the brewery floor. I've never tried the food so no comment there. I do intend to spend a lunch hour there one day when I have an easy afternoon ahead of me. The staff there is very friendly and super knowledgeable about the product. Great spot!

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Rule of 3 Brewing

4.8(12 reviews)
12.2 mi

Cool venue overall. 3.5 rounded up for having some local 3rd party drink options, a large clean…read morespace, food truck and a bunch of fun vendors with booths setup while we were there (though I believe it was the last day for that). It's not very local nor particularly convenient to any of my normal routes, but it was a nice stop on the way home recently. They're in the back section of a multi-tenant complex, sharing part of a steel / metal siding "Butler" building with a few others such as a cross-fit place. Decent enough parking, huge indoor space with games, some TV's, a large bar and very nice, newly built restrooms. The beer overall was pretty good. All seemed clean, refreshing, and of sufficient quality, but none of the ones I tried were enticing enough for me to consider any to go. The sour was probably my favorite overall. The water station needs work. It doesn't work all that well / kind of slow, and it's frustrating to find yet another business won't serve water (even when not busy, and apparently even if you're seated at the bar. I get it, that costs time and thus money, but it seems odd to expect people seated at the bar to get up and walk away for a water. If there wasn't any bar seating, it would make more sense to me. (Couple places in Manchester follow the same trend, but neither of those has bar seating.)

Rule of 3 offers several beer options and all done well. The owners set up a very inviting…read moreatmosphere with large TVs and games to play. You can sit with friends play cards or pick a day board for a couple rounds. Plenty of seating available. Service is friendly and knowledgeable on the beer selection. They have cool merch with their cool logo. Enjoy!

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Westhampton Beach Brewing

4.0(10 reviews)
41.1 mi

Best burgers ribs tacos! So friendly able to accommodate large parties with separate checks…read more Attentive service. Sooo good! Nice place too!

I sure hope the new owners / manager reads this review and decide to use it as a road map to…read moreimprove things. The good - Nicole our server was nice, competent and on point. The young man that assisted her was polite and excellent at his job. Staff which we knew from Daphanes were nice to see again and seem happy to be there which is great. We went in for dinner on a Saturday with my son who was in from NYC. We wanted to try the new place on the strip. The beer was good. My wife liked her wine. The good pretty much ended with the drinks. The flat bread was a level below bowling alley pizza. Undercooked, soggy, tasteless and doughy. We all agreed - it was terrible. I had the chicken Ceasar wrap - in fact we all did. We all thought it was just ok - nothing I'd care to repeat and also small for me and my son. WHBB management / ownership check out Vinnie's all day cafe in Boca Raton Florida on IG for a master class on chicken Ceasar wraps construction :). You're welcome ! Those wraps are the keys to the castle. I did like the fact that they toasted the wraps before serving. For sides we all tried something different and shared. I got the side of French fries -well done. They were just barely cooked forget well done. My wife got the sweet potato fries. They were the best thing on the table all night. And my son the onion rings. He thought they were on but next time he would opt of the sweet potato fries. If you're not wanting red meat and not wanting fried chicken that's kinda where you land on the grilled chicken Ceasar wrap. A fresh tuna wrap or fresh Tuna in a salad would have been a welcome addition or a 1/2 grilled chicken or a fresh turkey dinner, or even some sushi for some suggestions. I really hope my next trip is better. I'll be back and I want them to succeed. They got the staff part right and the alcohol but for me they need to get the food right for me to keep this place on my regular stop in list. Perhaps I'm not the target market and that's OK too. I'm hoping this place has aspirations to be a "something" for everyone place. And a place I can have a proper Saturday night dinner with my wife. Not solely a little kids fried food place on one side of the spectrum and a big kids beer guzzling establishment where they drink so much they don't need to focus on the food on the other. Our waitress asked how everything was and I pretty much told her the above. She suggested I try the burger next time. She said It's great and from Justin's. So I definitely will next time around. To make it on main street ( for me and my wife ) as more than a bar they are really going to have to improve the food in both quality and variety. I hope they make some changes.

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