Shebeen Brewing Company

By EastCoastBrewReviewer -

The Stats 

Location: Wolcott, CT

 History: Shebeen opened in 2013 and has grown steadily since. They already are distributing their beer locally and plan to expand to the greater CT and NY area. Their passion is creating "interesting and challenging beers" for the masses to enjoy.

Food Service: No

 Website: shebeenbrewing.com

The Scenario

As is often the case, we missed the turn-in for this brewery. Although the building is easy to identify with a huge Shebeen logo on the side, coming from the wrong side, we blew it. Approaching the brewery, you pass a bathroom design shop. Our question was, how many patrons get lit and buy a new bathtub? Could be a thing. Walking in there is a "bar" to your right where you an order a pint or a flight. There was a large selection of beer we could choose from but Deanna came strictly for the Canolli Beer. Ordering a pint of the canolli and a flight of beer that was hard to choose from, we entered the next room which was full of benches large tables. A ton of Irish decor was strewn about the tasting room, from Irish poems to the Irish flag. What was a really great touch was the overhead lights consisted of a green, white, and orange bulb creating the flag in lightbulbs. On a Saturday afternoon it wasn't too busy but there were definitely a few groups of patrons ordering flights and pints.

The Ratings

Cherry Cordial Cannoli

K: 3.5/5 - Slight hint of cherry, mostly the chocolate and powdered sugar taste though. 

Cannoli

 D: 4/5 - I went hard and ordered a pint of this signature beer. It's a delightful beer with a fun cannoli flavor complete with powdered sugar and chocolate shavings on the rim.
K: 4/5 - Delicious!

 Toasted Coconut

 K: 3/5 - Barely taste the coconut but a pretty good beer

 Sour Thing #3

 K: 3/5 - Interesting tasting sour. Tasting grapes, almost a wine flavor. 

 Prost German Lager

 K: 2/5 - Not great.

Final Thoughts

D: 4/5 - Cool spot with some really unique brews. I've been wanting to try their cannoli beer for quite a while and it didn't disappoint. However, through this tasting I learned that Kyle has never had actual cannoli. Devastating. This is change soon. I could see us coming back here for sure. 

K: 4.5/5 - Shebeen is definitely a great spot. The fact that they really try to push the limits on beer flavors is awesome. I can appreciate the wide variety of available brews as it was a tough choice to pick ones for my flight. I enjoyed almost all of them and their signature cannoli beer is a fun treat. I would absolutely come back in the area, not only to try their beers but to get a 4-pack of cannoli beer to-go! 





Signage
Tasting Room




Cannoli Beer!





Flight Glasses

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