Other Half Brewing Thread (Jan 2016)

As I'm drinking some Tired Hands Alien Church, really curious to see what Oat Junkie turns out to be like. Tired Hands is known to do soft, pallatable oat driven IPAs where Other Half is more an intense, bitter hop experience with that NY water finish.

 

http://www.stealthisbeer.com/episodes/2016/1/4/episode-39-sam-richardson-other-half-brewing

 

Your point about the NY water is interesting. Never have given much thought to it before, but I'm sure as beer is mostly water it affects the beer a lot (although I don't know enough about brewing to know what the boil process would do to it)

 

Beer is 90% water quality. It dictates taste in so many ways. Shaun Hill uses his family well water for his beers, which is why, in my opinion, they're so incredibly good. The almost distilled water give OH beers their signature taste. Water is THE most important part of beer.

 

I just kinda assumed that once the water is boiled it's pretty much the same thing, or that brewers would filter/process/distill the water making it less unique to its location. TIL.

 

im pretty sure the idea is to have uniformity of your water before you ever start the process of brewing..so every time you create a recipe or look to duplicate it you have a shot at anticipating what the end product will be
i would think the same recipe brewed at at two different locations will have with some differences

 

What's the name of the podcast?

 

Steal This Beer

 

What is this Rum BA imperial stout OH bottled and when can I buy it?

 

Absolutely the truth.

My first couple of years homebrewing, my beers came out with such a strange, off-putting flavor. After becoming more advanced, I realized it was the chemical make up of the water in my town. I started manipulating the water by adding certain minerals and things have improved tenfold!

 

Sounds like Hicksville water.

I asked Matt at bctc '14 about treating their water and he said city water is great and they don't do anything to it. That was when they first opened though.

 

While up for the can release I bought a growler of Passiflora and really loved it. I'm not huge into saisons but this one was really good.

 

Yea city water mostly comes from the Catskills so it's relatively pure (in a sense).

Long Beach water...not so much.

 

A co-worker surprised me with a can of Forever Ever and Suparillo.

Cracked open the Forever Ever tonight and it is really good and easy to drink. I agree with @BoardwalkBock in that I would love to have Forever Ever and Baby Diamonds all summer. Really refreshing and easy drinking beers. Would be better in July than now.

Going to wait a week or so to try the Suparillo based on info above. I feel AGE is great around 3-4 weeks after canning. Maybe the same for this.

 

I cracked a Suparillo and really enjoyed it... didn't get hit with the booze that people are talking about.

 

Not sure... I thought i heard Sam mention that they just bottled something on the podcast mentioned above

 

Not sure when this was recorded, but maybe he was referring to Bretty Crocker?