Talk:Try Murgatroyd's Carnelian Pale Ale/@comment-26273934-20150501110239

It is, yes.

Like the connection-increasing item of all factions that you can purchase (with the exception of Criminals' which locks at 15 instead of 20) you cannot use the non-Fate action of this item while your Connected: The Docks is lower than 10 or 20 or higher. Using it at 19&some CP will however still net you the whole +75 CP increase for the respective connection, so you might end up at a higher level than 20 sometimes (with the right planning, up to 23).

Note that increasing your connections does not use up the items (which in my opinion is a bit unclear from the in-game descriptions and frequently misinterpreted), i.e. you can repeatedly raise it to 20-something until the lock happens, then trade in your connections for expedition supplies or do something else with them, then later re-stock the with more Glim afterwards. When spending connection CP, make sure to keep the faction at level 10 or higher, else you'll have to rebuild at the carnival or through conflict cards if there are no easily repeatable (and accessible) grinds for the faction in question.