Bristol’s popular downtown watering-hole, Firefly Hollow Brewery was named the best brewery in Connecticut, according to Yelp. Yelper Brendan H. posted “Bring food, have a pizza delivered, or enjoy the rotating schedule of food trucks. You can bring your pooch as well.” and Yelper Anne C. posted “Firefly produces beers to fit almost every type of beer lover.” — just to name a few. While Bristol Rising is now long gone, many of their positive efforts and successes continue. Firefly Hollow Brewery in downtown Bristol is one of them. Since then, Firefly has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times. Back in 2014, Brewmaster and Co‐Founder of Firefly Brewing Company Dana Bourque told the Roundup that the brewery has blazed its own path and Bourque credits Bristol for supporting their development. “When we were conceptualizing the company we started looking at where we could possibly do it and we were drawn to this part of the state because there was not a whole lot going on for craft beers. There were a couple, but as far as craft beer bars and availability it seemed low. We went around to all the town halls to see if anyone was interested. Bristol was one of the few that said [...]