Other Half Brewing July 2017

Ha yea this line shit is brazy fam. any who imma start shucking oysters at 5:30am. 4oz rare pours for 3 pemaquids ***please please PLEASE! do not anxiously pick at the sticker labels*** i need to take some clean pics for my dog's grindr account

 

Waiting in line is part of the culture. If you plan on getting beer from breweries similar to OH, i.e. Trillium, Treehouse, etc, plan on waiting.

 

What? Assuming you're not just trolling, why should "waiting on line" be a part of craft beer culture? The crux of all these arguments isn't the fact that you sometimes have to be wait a little while to get some cans; it's that unless you concede to do something totally ridiculous like get on line 3-4 hours before the brewery even opens, you're not guaranteed to get any beer at all many times. And the reason for this is not that the actual scarcity/supply-demand situation is so extreme, it's that the arbitrarily high case limits imposed by OH encourage a good number of people to do extreme things to get their beer (e.g. wait on line overnight or hire line-sitters). And the motivation for this extreme behavior, as many have posited, is not a love of craft beer, but rather that they can either trade or in many instances resell OH beer at huge mark-ups.

As has been discussed ad nauseum in this thread, there are many viable options to resolve this and get beer to a much wider audience, many of which have proven to work at other breweries (e.g. online ordering at Threes/Finback, lower case limits at Trillium, etc).

Craft beer is a commodity that OH is artificially inflating the value of through their case limits and marketing. That is what is so frustrating to many people who don't have the means or desire to play into that.

 

Is this sarcasm?

 

It's actually not.

 

So you are trolling. Disregard my previous response then

 

*grabs popcorn*

 

No, I just have a different opinion. Does it bother you that much?

 

Pretzels would be ok too.

 

Imagine being proud of waiting in line.

 

I've been to Trillium twice, once in Boston (in 2015, before they canned) and once in Canton (last summer). In Boston there was a small line maybe 10 minutes long, in Canton there was no line at all. Boston I left with five different bottles and Canton six different four packs.

 

Without snark or sarcasm, I guess I'll show myself the door, because I have a different opinion. I'm not proud of waiting and may have been to Trillium more than twice, but what do i know.

 

Except Other Half style lines don't occur at the other two breweries you mentioned.

That's what most of us are scoffing at.

 

Have you been to Treehouse or Trillium or Veil? Not the Monkish / Trillium line, but the lines were crazy. There are also more people in NYC and it's easier to get to.

Whenever I've hit OH, it was a 60-90 minutes tops. Not great, but not the Fully Loaded line. Two weeks ago, guys were rolling in at 11:30 and getting their allotment without a wait.

 

Was I just lucky each time to have stopped when there were no lines?

 

Maybe I was unlucky.

 

ive been to trillium at least 10 times and have only waited more than 15 minutes once and that was before a holiday.

trillium has recently seen an increase in demand and has dropped their limits to 3 4 packs per style. They’ve responded to a lack of supply with stricter limits.

treehouse is on another level. they produce the cases other half does a week in a day and limit the beer to more than 4x the allotments.

the math is simple. if other half does a 700 case run and allows a 3 case limit they only have 233.3 allotments. its advantageous for resellers and traders to do this per week. thats as if treehouse allowed a 1x case limit per day. theyd sell out in less than an hour and people would line up at 2am.

 

they both also only brew the same style of beer and aren’t doing this upper deck hologram/game jersey crap per style of a beer that may have a little more tropical notes than the other.

if OH just did runs of mylar/space/mosaic dream per week like trill and tree i would never go to overpriced nyc bars again.

like name the closest brewery if youre out of state? how many brooklyners are clogging up the lines?

 

I've been to Trillium 4 times and have never waited more than 5 minutes and walked out with a plethora of different beers. Trillium pumps out a new batch everyday. They have the most ideal business model for any brewery.

 

I agree with @dhaakon and think the complaints are valid- perhaps even necessary in order to break the status quo. At this point all we're asking for is a valid reason from OH (not random theories) as to why the limits are NOT lowered.