The Half-Acre thread (2018)

Ducking out of work early and heading to the city. Should be at HA around 3. Gotta keep the dingus from New Hampshire all stocked up. Small state, big ego.

 

I appreciate you looking out for me...unless you're talking about another dingus from New Hampshire.

 

As a normal person, if I get off work around 5-6p, get to HA around 6:45p, do you think I'll score a 4-pack?

 

Yes

 

What if you were special?

 

Yes, "what if."

 

yes

 

Taproom is SRO. No wait for to-go at 11:45

 

I went to Half Acre at 8pm for the GDDC launch and me and my group got a table and there was no wait on cans. Half Acre is spectacular in that sense. Let the crazy people get their beer first and then go later at night when it's normal.

 

In and out in 3 minutes. No problems.

 

Taproom still a shit show?

 

Nope. Walked in and grabbed a seat. It's busy, but you can get a beer within 2 min of walking in.

 

This year's BHA seems to be the filtered version. Compared it to last year's unfiltered drafts and it looks very different. Also, no growlers (guessing cans have to go first?)

 

Walked in and sat at the bar at 11:45. Burger is great, BHA isn't as hazy on draft as last year, and I really liked the bubble.

 

In the interest of clarity, HA have stated before that they do not filter their beer. Whether one beer looks to have more 'particulate' than another is not on account of being unfiltered/filtered.

 

You may be right. In any case, the experimentation that led to different versions a year ago wasn't done again this year

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NH guys suck!

 

There is no "may" about it. Half Acre has stated idk how many times their beer is not filtered. So many other things can contribute to batches 365 days apart looking different.

More importantly hows it taste.

 

Correct, one of the employees stated it was not filtered while I was checking out. Tastes the exact same as last year for me. Great beer.

 

I thought they brewed the draft and bottle versions at different locations last time and that was attributed to the difference.