If you like bringing home fresh, hand-crafted beers, then the growler-club reward we’re offering in our Kickstarter campaign more than pays for itself. For $150, you get a Fairfield Craft Ales 64-oz. growler, 12 fills of that growler, a hoodie, a T-shirt, a pint glass, and a bumper sticker. Once we’re open, most growler fills …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STRATFORD, Conn., March 14, 2016—Fairfield Craft Ales, a music-inspired nanobrewery under construction on Honeyspot Road in Stratford, took only 73 hours to pass the halfway point in its $15,000 Kickstarter campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1740197116/fairfield-craft-ales). The campaign launched on March 10 and hit 50 percent of its goal by early morning on March 13. The …
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We just hit the halfway point toward our Kickstarter campaign goal, and it’s only the beginning of day 4! Of course, we still have a bit of road ahead, but we’ll get there. Thanks to all of you for your continued support. We’ll be hard at work on the space today. We hope you have a …
Day 2 of our Kickstarter campaign was another great one! We got a bunch more pledges and encouragement from our friends, and we were named a “Project We Love” by Kickstarter. Plus we painted some more of our floors (see pictures below—the flecked floor in the men’s room is what the tap room will look …
Wow! One day into our 30-day Kickstarter campaign, and we’re already close to one-third funded. Thanks to our 45 funders and to the 348 people who took the time to watch our video. Let’s keep the momentum going. Please share widely and contribute what you can. Our most popular reward level is Welcome to the …
We’re launching a Kickstarter campaign today to help us hit the ground running. The text of our press release, which includes a link to the campaign, is below. Please watch the music video—which we tried to make fun and entertaining—and share the campaign with friends. We’ve put together a good package of rewards, so we …
According to James Taylor, a churning urn of burning funk is what you are when you’re a cement mixer, baby. Today, we had a 14-man crew of burning funk helping us cement in the holes and trenches we had dug for our brewery’s new plumbing. It was a classic teamwork effort—as soon as the cement …
Today we scored 15 bar stools and 8 keg couplers (the things on top of the keg through which the beer flows to the tap) for about one-third their usual price. A place in Hamden called DeMil’s on Whitney just shut its doors, and Mike went out to the live auction bright and early this morning. …
This week, we got a bunch of our chips cashed in. Our contractors started work laying in our floor drain and new bathroom plumbing, as well as framing out our ADA-compliant bathrooms and our bar. We also scored a couple of used walk-in coolers, some bar tables, 24-oz. beer glasses, a bunch of taps for …
