Restaurant Features CT Beer Beer Beer Garden Newtown Brewery Openings Newtown's NewSylum Brewing Co. is a Pandemic Success Story Connecticut Magazine August 21, 2020 Photo” Winter Caplanson c/o Connecticut Magazine Connecticut Magazine checks out NewSylum Brewery in Newtown. Here’s their review. It was not the grand opening anyone envisioned. NewSylum Brewing Co. owners Mark Lennon, David Kingsley and Mark Tambascio had been planning their brewery for several years as a taproom-centered operation. One that took full advantage of their unique location in Newtown within a historic building at what was formerly Fairfield Hills Hospital, a psychiatric facility on a 100-plus-acre campus with more than a dozen buildings. NewSylum Brewing Co. in Newtown opened during the coronavirus pandemic in a historic building in the former Fairfield Hills Hospital, a psychiatric facility.Then the coronavirus hit. The brewery was slated to open the first week in May, but Connecticut was still shut down and the taproom the owners had envisioned as the centerpiece of their business couldn’t be opened. “We had to shift gears from our original plan,” Lennon says. They hadn’t planned on canning their beer but quickly contracted with a mobile canning company, and began offering curbside pickup. As the state reopened, they were able to allow customers outdoors and then indoors at limited capacity. In the midst of a pandemic, NewSylum became a destination. Read the full article on Connecticut Magazine. [Photography c/o Winter Caplanson]
