Other Half (2019)

I saw behind the curtain and didn't like what I saw.

 

Deliver the goods my good man or stop dangling this juice in front of us. You could be the abagofit of Other Half

 

We gotta make the New York Times front page. Spill the beans!

 

Other Half Brewery Outed By Former Employee As Running “Upstate Dairy Farm Sweatshop”; Trillium Workers’ Standards Claimed To Be “Palatial” In Comparison; Hubert Kanger First To Break Tosed Up Omertà

 

Jeez....how many pages of replies will this thread get in a whole calendar year? Shit’s gonna get crazy up in here.

 

They’re gonna find employees working for cents on the dollar at some huge secret location in the Catskills milking cows 24/7, working in greenhouses filled with heat lamps and sugar cane, producing sweatshop clothing consisting of product with pieces of pizza, cheese and vegetables. Sad!

 

1. that crunchee beer was honestly good I admit it

this is the single least controversial post ever made

 

My two cents would be that instead of big batches of solid beers we're getting as many as 7 or 8 beers in a week, most of which are ipas, that often sellout in a day or two. This is instead of big batches of like 4 beers a week that have a chance to last a whole week. I'm rarely if ever showing up to a brewery Saturday morning anymore. So if I swing by Sunday/Monday night when it's convenient the options can be kinda random.

There are also so many series and different but similar names(noted here constantly) it's hard to keep up and keep it straight. All when at the same time the beers aren't really that different from each other.

I'd also agree about quality not always being consistent. I had some great OH beers last year, but there were definitely ones that weren't very good (although not as high as 40%).

Basically it's possible to show up on a Sunday night and have your choices be one the dream layers beers(off the top of my head I couldn't tell you what this series is or what the variants are) and a Vermont yeast beer(I don't think I like these as much), and that seems kinda far from ideal.

 

I'm gonna go out on a limb and estimate the thread will average 1 page per day by the end of the year.

 

Let’s take bets.

By Dec 31, I’m going to say a total of 189 pages

 

I'll go for 217. Instagram commenting has seen logarithmic growth and there's far less posting of "Line status?", "Why the hell can't they decrease limits when the line is clearly so damn long?" or "Can you fucking believe that asshole cut in front of me?," but when Rochester opens this thread will see a concomitant increase in activity, just not to 2017 levels. If that locale gets a separate thread, I'll go for 174.

 

Starting things off with a bang in Rochester!

 

I'll settle for 75% classic and 25% new. That works to saturday releases with 1 new beer and 3 "classics". In reality, I think OH's goals for 2019+ are different and make all this 'tose tears go away. They are expanding capacity and they always want a stock of cans for sale in the taproom I'm told. We may get to a point where we can always go to OH and get All Citra, or Mylar, or Space Diamonds etc.

Love Grimm. Though, after the L-Train shutdown in April I won't be visiting anytime soon. I hope their taproom doesn't contain too many tumbleweeds.

Best fruit forward beer they have made IMO. It's actually rated higher than almost all of their IPAs at a 4.5 right now on untapped with 500+ ratings last time I checked...

 

PASTRYTOWN!

 

Looks like people are going to get diabetes for this year's OH festival.

 

Is this worth the VIP? A few people told me VIP IPAfest was worth it.

 

would love to see the amount of average calories consumed at this one

 

Ew.

 

They forgot to add "Worst hangover headache" on both ticket packages.