About the Brewery

Brewing the best Connecticut has to offer since 1997

Thomas Hooker Brewing Company, located in Bloomfield, is Connecticut's local brewery with the national reputation. One taste and you'll recognize why small batch local brewing with quality ingredients produces a superior beer.

New Facility - Recently opened, the new Thomas Hooker Brewery in Bloomfield is now equipped to host visitors and private events where people can enjoy our product at the tasting bar, and purchase merchandise.

Private Tours - Private tours can be scheduled by contacting the brewery. Tours typically included samples and a brief talk on the beers produced at the tasting bar, then a tour of the facility including which include a step by step explanation of how beer is brewed.

Built on the premise that small manufactures creating quality products are still to backbone of this country, Thomas Hooker is proud to be in its second decade of producing great quality craft beers in Hartford County. Thomas Hooker has built a valuable brand in its Thomas Hooker Fresh Ales and Lagers. The company's eight offerings, 4 ales and 4 lagers, are highly respected and recognized for consistency and quality. Recently named as the 73rd best brewer in the world by RateBeer.com, and ranked number 15 in the top 50 American Micro Breweries by the Beer Advocate, Hartford should be proud of their small brewer with a huge reputation.

First established over ten years ago as the brewing arm of the Trout Brook Brew Pub, the company and its brands were purchased by the current investor group in 2006. Precipitated by the closure of the adjacent brew pub in mid-2003, Troutbrook Brewery became a manufacturing micro brewery with a new focus on distribution. The products were re-introduced to the market as Thomas Hooker Ales & Lagers in August, 2003.

With broad business experience, and deep industry specific expertise, the current management team has assembled a group of individuals capable of taking the Thomas Hooker Brands to the next level. In fact, in the short one year period since acquiring Thomas Hooker, the company has increased sales almost 100%, and relocated the brewery operations from approximately 2,000 square foot of space in Hartford, to an 8,000 square foot facility in Bloomfield and expanded distribution to included New York City and Eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maine.

Proudly named for the founder of Hartford, Thomas Hooker Ales & Lagers are distinctive in that they are brewed true to style - hand-crafted from the finest ingredients. The small batch brewing employed by Thomas Hooker allows for quality control and freshness, which are more in line with Americans demand for local products with a focus on freshness and quality.

Founder of Hartford and the Connecticut colonies, Father of American Democracy

Thomas Hooker Brewery gets its name from the great colonial leader of the 1600's, Rev. Thomas Hooker (1586-1657).

Born in rural Marefield, Leicestershire, England, the son of a farm manager, Thomas Hooker won a good scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, where in time he became the equivalent of a professor of theology.

But this status as a leader in the Puritan movement would cause him to emigrate first to Holland and then to New England in 1633, on the ship Griffin, to escape the persecution of Archbishop William Laud for non-conformity.

He isattributed as being the first minister of the First Parish in Cambridge , a church that still exists in the present day. His home was on a plot of land which today is part of the yard at Harvard College.

In 1636, Thomas Hooker led 100 of his congregation west to found the new English settlement at Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford gets its name from Hertford, England, the birthplace of one of Hooker's assitants, Rev. Samuel Stone.

After settling in Hartford, Hooker continued to be in contact with John Winthrop and Roger Williams. Hooker often traveled to Boston along the Old Connecticut Path, to help settle intercolonial disputes. He is also remembered for his role in creating the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut". This document is one of the modern world's first written constitutions and an influence upon the current American Constitution, written nearly a century and a half later.

learn more: Thomas Hooker on Wikipedia - Thomas Hooker Bio on Britanica - HartfordHistory.net

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