Off The Dome
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

Pours cloudy orange color with a nice 1-2 finger thick creamy off-white head that faded and left decent lacing. Nothing special for an OH DIPA, which usually have good legs. Smells like flowers, apricot, fresh vegetables just pulled from the dirt, candy like Razzles or Skittles, caramel, must, herbs and sour orange juice. It smells sweet and a little off for an IPA.

The flavor is a bit strange like barnyard funk and musty grapes mixed with guava juice, orange peel, grapefruit juice and stirred with a bouquet of flowers. Like the nose I got flowers, apricot, vegetables, candy like Razzles or Skittles, caramel, herbs, sour orange juice, and then the additions of peach, graham cracker and pineapple. Lingering sour orange juice and tea leaf left a semi-dry feeling. It's all over the place.

The 8% ABV was well hidden and the mouthfeel was smooth and bordering on slick, but this was not an OH brew that got me excited to revisit it. Not bad, just not my thing.

16 oz. can. Hazy pale orange with a pillowy white head. Smells of garlicky hops and white pepper. Tastes of grapefruit hops, a touch of chewy oaty sweetness, and a white peppery bite in the back end. Medium heavy. A nice change of pace from the other OH beers I've been trying. Still a hazy DIPA with zero bitterness, but it has a pleasantly dynamic profile.

16oz undated can.

Pours murky yellow with an inch-plus of fluffy white. Plenty of smeared lacing with persistent retention. Pure pineapple and guava juice in the nose. Medium bodied with a soft, creamy mouthfeel. Juicy tropicals on the palate with minimal malt or bitterness. Candied pineapple, peach, mango, and orange. Finishes extremely juicy and lush.

Can from Jeff, thanks for the hookup.
Hazy murky orange straw color with a decent sized frothy white head. Lemony tropical citrus and light earthy spice in front of a bright sweet bread light crackery malt.

I wanted to like this beer - really, I did! It was from Other Half and it's rare that they release something that lets me down. While this didn't necessarily do that, it could have been so much more as it didn't stand out in any particular aspect to me. If you like your beers to be soft, tropical, and a bit exotic, reach for this. If you want to be surprised, delighted, and introduced to something new on the palate, keep looking. You won't find any of those here!

This had a pretty typical pour for an Other Half beer - hazy, apricot, and relatively bright in hue. Not a lot of head topped it off the lacing left behind wasn't very extensive aside from a deep, but thin, ring near the top of my pint glass. Lots of white grape from the Nelson Sauvin in the nose along with some tropical and passion fruits from the Kohatu and Wai-iti as the taste was much more deep, earthy, and exotic than the nose led me to believe. Relatively dry, there was plenty of malt to balance it would and a basic cracker that kept this from feeling too "out there". Slick on the palate, there were hints of jack fruit in the aftertaste as a bit of wild berry was also present throughout.

Canned on 7/3/19, this wasn't a bad beer and it was nicely different and easily enjoyable, but nothing in particular about it stood out to me. The label was more colorful than the liquid as this wasn't a bad beer to kick back with, since the 8% ABV was hardly detectable. A fun offering from Other Half!