Dream Club
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

 

On tap at Other Half-Buffalo. Foggy day so couldn't drink outside, Good one,oat sweetness behind a hop fog hop serving. Worth trying, even though didn't crush.

 

Picked this up recently at Other Half as I liked the name and label to this and was looking for something a bit softer to kick back with, as a change from heavier beers I enjoy this time of year. Indeed, this was soft but not particularly memorable as it was easy to quaff and a bit too astringent for my tastes.

Not a bad pour to this as the liquid was a muted straw with a fair amount of light seeping through it. Plenty of lacing stuck around as there were deep rings that slid down to the ones below as the head never fully settled down. Turbid, funky, and muted, this had a soft and heavy feel to the aroma as there was grape, peach, fruit cocktail, and dank tropical fruit as the taste followed suit. Full from the oats and a bit sweet from the lactose, this was like something out of the 80's in that it was a hot mess that put together with the end result being a loud mess that would seem somewhat dated quickly.

There was some tangy citrus in the aftertaste and a bit of slickness that kept this from feeling any heavier. Hard to believe that this was only 6.5% as one can was enough to hit me and leave me wanting a chaser of water to was this down. Dated 12/21 on the bottom of the can with "D.C." written below it, this was worth a go once although it wasn't anything that I'd send back to the future.

 

From a 16oz can, dated 08/19/21. Served in a spiegelau-style IPA glass.

Pours an only moderately hazy, pale orange-gold with two fingers of fluffy white suds. Retention is excellent, leaving an egg-foam cap and a bubbly curtain of lacing.

Nose is faint and not altogether pleasant or, at least, it's unexpected. Notes of orange-scented detergent and spoiled milk - I’m pretty sure that’s not coming from my glassware.

Taste is a weird mishmash of instant milk powder and white wine, orange, peach rings and pineapple, Lucky Charms, grain alcohol and grapefruit juice.

Feel is fizzy and medium-light bodied. Aggressively carbonated and inexplicably boozy given the relatively low abv.

Overall, by no means undrinkable but neither is it hardly the stuff of legends. TBH, I would have enjoyed it much more if I’d just been drinking it and not picking apart its (many) flaws in order to write a review. A victim of overthinking.