Dear Connecticut HBS Alumni
You're invited to our Oktoberfest Celebration
at the Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
in Bloomfield, CT
on Tuesday October 6th, 2009,
6:00pm – 8:00 pm
Please RSVP below.
We welcome HBS Alumni (and their spouses / partners)
and partner alumni clubs
To come and join us
in celebrating Oktoberfest 2009
with a behind the scenes tour of
one of Connecticut's premier micro breweries
conducted by Curt Cameron,
President of Thomas Hooker Brewing
previous software entrepreneur
who found a career in brewing beer!
Cost of the event is $20/person including site rental, guided tour and tasting, and appetizers.
Click here to register on the HBS Club of CT web site.
HBS Alumni please use your LEFA to log in before registration
Others please create a non-HBS Alumni
account on the web site
to access our online payment system
Event Details
Fall weather remind you of Back - to - School? Curious about area HBS alumni and what they're doing? Want to meet and mingle with alumni from some other "well known" business schools? Do them all! You are cordially invited to an Octoberfest on Tuesday October 6th, 2009, 6 – 8 pm at the Thomas Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield.
It's a terrific time of year, and a long overdue opportunity for Greater Hartford area alumni to reconnect and make a few new connections. Joining us are the Harvard Club of Northern Connecticut, and alumni from MIT, Tuck, Darden, Wharton, Kellogg and Stanford. Curt Cameron, President of Thomas Hooker, will provide "insider insights" on entrepreneurship, brand and distribution development and some of the logistical challenges of producing beer. We'll get a private tour of this up and coming microbrewery and sample their award-winning Octoberfest brew. Spouses and significant others are welcome.
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company is named for the founder of Hartford, and is establishing itself as the premier brand for Connecticut. It produces and distributes ales and lagers and currently has 11 products, which are distributed in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New York, eastern Pennsylvania and Florida. First established in 1995 as the brewing arm of the Trout Brook Brew Pub in the old Spaghetti Factory in Hartford, the company and its brands were purchased by the current investor group in 2006. Precipitated by the closure of the adjacent brew pub in mid-2003, Trout Brook Brewery became a manufacturing micro brewery with a new focus on distribution. The products were re-introduced to the market as Thomas Hooker Ales & Lagers in August, 2003 and moved to the current and much larger, 8,000 square foot facility in Bloomfield in 2007.
Curt Cameron, a native of Granby, began his business career with a start-up software development firm, and had several successful entrepreneurial ventures before forming the investor group that acquired the brewery. He speaks on entrepreneurship to a variety of audiences, and has taught in the Lehigh University MBA program. Please join us for what promises to be a great evening.
Cost of the event is $20/person including site rental, guided tour and tasting, and appetizers.
Questions? Contact Steve Perry at sjvperry@yahoo.com or 860.681.4167, or Lesley Mancini at lesley.mancini@comcast.net or (860) 655-8011.
Click here to register. HBS alumni can log in using their LEFA. (Don't have a LEFA password? Contact Alumni Records at 617.495.6438 to set up one.) Non-HBS alumni will need to create a free site account before continuing to register.
Directions – From Harford and points south, take I-91 north to exit 35A, Route 218/Cottage Grove Road. Turn left (west) on Cottage Grove Road to Granby Street. Turn left on Granby and go past Home Depot to the first stop sign, and turn into Tobey Road and the Bloomfield Business Park.
Directions – From Farmington Valley and points west, take Route 44 or Route 185 east to West Hartford, and turn onto Route 218 (east) which is North Main Street , Hall Blvd and then Cottage Grove Road. Take Route 218/Cottage Grove east to Granby Street. Turn right on Granby and go past Home Depot to the first stop sign, and turn into Tobey Road and the Bloomfield Business Park
Look on the right side for the granary silo with the Thomas Hooker logo on it and turn into the driveway. The entrance to brewery is on the side of the building. Secure parking is straight back through the gate.
For GIS - Thomas Hooker Brew Company, 16 Tobey Road, Bloomfield CT (860) 242-3111.
