Bear Hands Brewing Company

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Visiting Us

Hello BHBC Family when visiting the tap room you'll be able to check out 11 different beers made on site. As well as, hard cider, setter and an assortment of spirits. The Brick Wall Eatery provides a pub menu featuring App to Table service offering the perfect foods to compliment our beer. We will NO longer allow outside food. All seating is first come first serve. *Well behaved dogs are welcomed on our Outside Patio only.

To Go Orders

For to-gos we offer 32oz Howlers. We recommend calling ahead for howler orders to avoid wait times. Check out our “What’s On Tap” for available beer options.

Our Hours

Wed. & Thurs. 12-8pm
Fri. & Sat. 12-10pm
Sun. 12-8pm

UPCOMING EVENTS

Trivia Every
Wednesday Night

EVERY Wednesday @ 6 PM in the Lounge. Lounge Opens @ 5 PM

Come Visit Bear Hands Brewing

Pints, Ponys, Samples and Flights Available in the Tap Rooms.

Now open The Brick Wall Eatery located in Bear Hands Brewing Co. offering App to Table Service. Foods that compliments our beer.

Bar Tops, Tables and Couches for Beer Drinking Comfort
Music and Arcade Games Available for Entertainment

Brewery Hours

Bear Hands Brewing Co. currently offers Patio and Indoor seating. Seating is first come first serve please see Server/Bartender for patio seating when you arrive. Call (860)-315-9099 or visit us on Facebook for questions or more information.

Patio and Inside Seating

  • Sunday: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
  • Monday: Closed
  • Tuesday: Closed
  • Wednesday: 12:00 PM- 8:00 PM
  • Thursday: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
  • Friday: 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Saturday: 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
75 Main Street #1 Putnam, CT 06260
(860) 315 - 9099

What's On Tap

Prices are left to right for Refill on Howlers and Full Pours. In-house Pony’s (8oz) and Samples (5oz) are available.

  • SWEETBERRY Lime 5.0% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    This sour ale is blended with multiple additions of Blackberries and Limes from the boil kettle all the way to the keg. The result is a delicious SWEETBERY Lime that'll leave you saying "no way Jose, that tastes just like fruit!" Dr. Steve Bruel himself says "guess what, you're gonna like it"! If you’re not familiar with the good Doctor then just Google his Sweetberry Wine clip, grab a glass of SWEETBERRY Lime, sip and enjoy!

  • Lagering And,..Lagering And.. 4.9% abv-16oz 32oz Refill $12 | Full $7

    This pale golden lager offers subtle hop bitterness, balanced by a medium bodied slightly, sweet malt profile.  The water profile allows the Mittelfrueh hops to compliment the malty profile

  • Papayan Ruins 6.8% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    With plenty of fruit to back up the heavy tart sour punch from the lactobacillus plantarum, this bold kettle sour is heavily fruited with papaya. At first sip you'll notice the sour flavors of the beer and papaya play of each other perfectly to hide this beer’s high ABV, making it one dangerously easy sipper, be careful that this one doesn't ruin you!

  • Show Me Riwaka 6.6% abv-16oz 32oz Refill $13 | Full $7

    "Show Me" is our popular single hopped New England IPA series that rotates out a new hop each time around. Sharing the same grain bill this beer is nice and hazy with just enough body to not steal the "Show" from the featured hop. This batch we used Riwaka hops. Riwaka gives extreme citrus notes which is great for 'hoppy beers', adding aromas of passionfruit, grapefruit, lemon and tropical fruits.

  • Sanity Pils 5.0% abv- 16oz 32oz Refill $12 | Full $7

    Lets brew up a little bit of Sanity with this classic German style that is oh so delicious. With a nice clear pale color, the malty sweetness is complimented by the wonderful bitterness of Germany's Hallertau MittelfrĂĽh hops.

  • Citra-Saurus 8.2% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    A Double IPA that packs a loaded tropical punch of mangos and pineapple. We balanced the tons of Citra hops with an awesome malt body to produce an addicting dry finish hazy DIPA.

  • I Can't Feel My Face Can I Feel Yours 8.5% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    This Baltic Porter packs tons of flavors into a smooth balanced beast of a lager. Featuring a balanced blend of cocoa, coffee, nuts, chocolate, and toffee flavors, no individual flavor overpowers another, and all come together to balance out this relatively high ABV.

  • C.T.'s Irish Stout 5.3% abv-16oz 32oz Refill $12 | Full $7

    This dry Irish stout gets its character from the roasted barley. Accented with chocolate malts providing a creamy complexity of roasted chocolate from start to finish.

  • Nelson's Secert 6.6% abv-16oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    This clean, and crisp New Zealand Pilsner is sure to get you and your mates good and munted! This crushable beer style is as if a New England IPA and a German Pilsner had a baby. This clean, clear, biscuity Pilsner features the Nelson Sauvin, and Motuka New Zealand hops, which bring flavors and aromas of zesty tropical fruit, citrus, and passion fruit.

  • Lesser Of Two Evils 7.7% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $15 | Full $8

    This juicy Hazy New England style Double IPA is our bi-annual collaboration with Black Pond Brews. This time around instead of using traditional dry hopping techniques we used Nectaron and Citralicious HopBurst. The result is this bold smooth bodied, and velvety mouthfeel DIPA, with intense citrus and stone fruit aromas and flavors that finishes with a mild hoppy, resinous linger.

  • Drunken Leprechaun Rave 4.5% abv-16oz 32oz Refill $13 | Full $7

    Are you ready to party like a Leprechaun?! Our Irish Red Ale features a medium to light body, and boasts rich biscuity melanoidin flavor, backed up with soft roast and caramel undertones, ending with just a wee bit of bitter.

  • Berry Rose 5.0% abv-12oz 32oz Refill $13 | Full $7

    ACE Berry Rosé is a jammy triple-berry cider made by blending wild blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry juices into our fermented apple cider. The berries produce the eye-catching, razzle-dazzle, pink rosé hue that will have you seeing and drinking out of rose colored glasses.

Our Story

Bear Hands Brewing Company is Us. My husband Justin, is the brewer and I Kayla, am the business. While raising our kids, Ada 10, Colin 6 and our newest addition Elsie we decided to take on the endeavor of opening a brewery and tap room and still trying to balance work/ life/… brewery. We took Justin’s 14 year- homebrewing hobby, to the next level. After, the good feedback from our inner circle, we started traveling all around CT, from beer fest to beer fest. Pouring our beer for the masses, and again the feedback was great! That’s when we took it upon ourselves to formulate a business plan to open our very own Brewery and Tap Room. We wanted to make brewing a career so we could share our passion for beer and atmosphere with everyone. After, three long years of highs and lows we accomplished what we set out to do, our brewery doors are finally open! Bear Hands Brewing Company’s charming home is in the quiet corner of downtown Putnam, CT.

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