Other Half (October 2018)

Yeah, agreed. This actually may be my favorite OH in awhile.

 

Also hops and weed are very very close genetic cousins

 

I dont give perfect ratings often but this ones has undoubtedly earned my perfect rating for a DIPA.

And not only that, but is for me the quintessential OH experience. It's world class, outstanding. perfect for what I enjoy in my beer!

 

More coming this weekend too! Definitely my favourite rotating beer from them. Quite possibly my favourite overall as well - definitely top three. I see you even have a like from @jrnyc despite his ongoing hunger strike - that just shows the level of passion this beer can generate.

 

I do find it odd that the proximity between the two places is used as a reason that the consumer shouldn't care rather than a reason that the price discrepancy should have never happened. But I'm done posting in that thread since people think that a justified complaint on a message board is the equivalent of losing their shit and flipping out.

 

The complaint was about the OG Mek location. That’s a bit more of a slog from Grimm. Or did I misunderstand what was going on there? Sounded like the new location was operating fine, but old one didn’t have a to-go license, were charging $14 a can to drink on-site, and that the staff didn’t really seem to know what was going on.

Totally legit complaint. But (from what I remember; too lazy to check) there were a couple of “I’m done with Grimm” flavor of posts that were overkill given the issue IMO

Either way Grimm used it as an opportunity to point out they’re better than everyone else which was cool.

 

im the one who said theyre done with grimm. this last part you said is one of many many valid reasons i have to not support a business i feel acts poorly toward their consumers... but again not trying to spread the drama to a second thread, sorry for bringing it up!
if anyone wants to message me for my side of the argument im happy to discuss it off-thread...

 

If I may add, essentially Grimm did not bother to coordinate pricing and Mek's employees had no idea what was going on. Also if I remember correctly, people wanted to purchase cans in the morning and were told by a Meks employees that they would have to wait for the manager to come in at 12. Was mindblowing to me that this got screwed up. They collabed on a beer for their grand opening yet totally fumbled it, how can your employees not know what is going on, how could they not have the basic details?! It just seemed very poorly planned on Grimm's and Mek's part, and while no skin off of their back, pissed people off who wasted their time. Grimm's response to all of this was lackluster as well, it's all there in the thread, Joe basically shrugged his shoulder. This would never happen at OH or any of the other local breweries with dedicated clientele like Grimm.

 

Can we get back to Other Half please?

 

Never. This thread has been hijacked. Move along.

 

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/grimm-artisanal-ales-october-2018.589702/ in case anyone needs directing.

At any rate, who's gonna be at the brewery Saturday morning? @jrnyc will be making his monthly ACE run and I join for shits and giggles before we head over to Sixpoint.

 

I just have to say that its a crazy coincidence that they've dropped ACE the same day as the Sixpoint release for the past three months. I'll be there, couldn't miss out on Wild Raspy even if it takes me 2hrs on the subway to get there.

 

this guy gets it, but i agree with the below.

 

I love how often ACE is released, one of my desert island beers. The new Short, Dark & Wired is really good, maybe even better than I remembered.

 

I hadn't noticed the ACE/Sixpoint coincidence, good call. I also definitively remember it being released on one of the early Sixpoint events last fall. Definitely cannot complain.

Also if you're not coming from Brooklyn/Queens, definitely take advantage of the IKEA ferry. It leaves you right by Sixpoint, is free on weekends, and infinitely more pleasant than a subway.

 

I will be there around 1130am then I'll be heading to Grimm for their release

 

Moar Expansion!

Other Half Brewery Will Open in Ivy City Warehouse

Two and a half years ago, DC's Board of Zoning Adjustment approved plans to retrofit an Ivy City tomato packaging warehouse into a Compass Coffee café and roastery alongside office and retail space. Now, those plans are being repackaged for a hipper clientele.

UrbanTurf has learned that Brooklyn's Other Half brewery will open a DC outpost at the former Pappas Tomato Factory at 1401 Okie Street NE (map). The Douglas Development-owned property will also be home to a Compass Coffee and a Kick Axe axe-throwing lounge. The 70-seat restaurant Gravitas is already open on the ground floor.

A revised zoning application for the warehouse requests special exceptions to add "Entertainment, Assembly and Performing Arts" and "Eating and Drinking Establishment" uses and roof deck bar/lounge space to the previously-approved plans.

This would enable the project to deliver the following to the site:

• A location of Compass Coffee that would include cellar-level production space and a double-height, skylit retail and café space on the ground floor.
• Other Half Brewery, which would occupy 13,340 square feet of cellar-level distribution space, as well as a ground-floor bar and production space.
• Office space on the second and third floors.
• A location of Kick Axe, which would have axe throwing and lounge space on the ground floor and bowling and curling lanes with bar space on the second floor, with an adjacent rooftop lounge.
• A roof deck to Gravitas.

The new plans necessitate the addition of nearly 20,000 square feet of ground floor area to the proposed building. Design-wise, these programmatic changes compelled project architect Antunovich Associates to add a partial second story to the building's northeast corner, more space on the second and third stories of the southwest corner, and an extended ground floor on the building's southeast corner.

Other Half, co-founded by DC native Matt Monahan, has an almost cult-like following in beer circles. At a recent can sale near Union Market, hundreds of people lined up to purchase cans by the case-load from the Brooklyn brewer.

The BZA will consider the proposal in mid-December; a Washington Post article about the axe-throwing craze (there is already such an establishment in Northeast) anticipates Kick Axe opening in 2019.

 

Oh shit is this a cult?

 

Already was, bro. Already was.

 

That’s when you know they got you.