Other Half (2020)

Well, I shall see what is available to me Thur afternoon and grab a few things, thanks for the reviews!

 

Their beers don't even look remotely the same so I don't use the word shell lightly. Most of their ipas have also been sugary sweet also. I was not aware they had a new brewer. Maybe it will be a while before they dial it back in

 

HDHC week continues with even more hop goodness on Wednesday and Thursday. Ordering opens at noon via Curbside Pickup on the days the beers are released, link in bio.

Today, Wednesday, 7/1 at noon⁠:
HDHC Triple Citra Daydream Imperial Oat Cream IPA (10.5%) The biggest and hoppiest gets even bigger and hoppier but with a very smooth profile with the help of our oat cream treatment. Citra, Citra Cryo and Citra Incognito turn this beer into a lychee and tropical fruit hop bomb. $24 per 4 pack.

HDHC Small Mosaic Everything IPA (6.5%) Slightly more manageable but no less flavorful than its big sibling All Mosaic. Smaller but with all the Mosaic Cryo and Mosaic Incognito you could need. $20 per 4 pack.

Tomorrow, Thursday, 7/2 at noon:
HDHC Hop Showers IPA (7.4%) One of our first beers finally gets the HDHC treatment! Citra, Amarillo, Citra and Amarillo Cryo and Citra Incognito. $22 per 4 pack.

HDHC More Citra Than All Citra Imperial IPA (10.5%) We wanted to explore unnecessarily large hop additions using Citra Incognito, Citra Cryo and regular Citra pellets. We are going for the biggest baddest aromatics we can and it represents around 15 lbs/bbl but with our combo of hop products it's as smooth as ever. $24 per 4 pack.

HDHC The Daydreamiest Imperial Oat Cream IPA (10.5%) The Imperial mashup of our 3 favorite Daydream hops, Mosaic, Citra and Galaxy gets the HDHC treatment. $24 per 4 pack.

 

:heavy breathing:

 

My wife is going to kill me

Also the cynic in me wonders if HDHC will become the new DDH

 

HDHC-HS!

 

15lbs/bbl on more citra is pretty crazy

 

Curious what the right way is to rate beers on Untappd. Why does there need to be a right answer? OH seems to not have skipped a beat through whatever changes people perceived over the last few years.

 

HDHC feels like a complete cash grab way of making an additional $2 on every 4pk. Hope they don’t start making most beers this way, but if everyone buys this stuff I’m sure they will.

 

You really have to take Untappd ratings with a grain of salt and not just go by ratings. The cap rating is only part of the story. You have to find the checkins from people that actually leave tasting notes. Most people don't.

Some people will rate a beer highly just because it's from a hype brewery and that's what you're "supposed" to do. Hudson Valley put out some downright shitty beers in late 2019, and people were still checking them in at 4+.

 

If something I liked legitimately became a shell of itself I wouldn't spend money on it.

OH IPAs have definitely changed A LOT in the last 6+ years. And yeah certain ones look different. Imagine OG AGE beside the most recent iteration. But I don't think there has been a sudden change in the last couple of months. Sweetness has been a complaint for some people for some of their beers, for a long while now. Not only is my total palate recall shite, I'm also color blind - but I would be surprised if ACE 2020 looks wildly different than ACE 2019.

And besides - beers often change/evolve. I imagine sometimes that's intentional and sometimes it's due to other reasons. Like the most recent HF Edward or HF Double Citra or HF Double Galaxies that I've had, all look/taste very different to the versions I first tried 8-9 years ago.

TL;DR - if you have a bone to pick with OH's direction you should have had one for a while at this point

Them's the breaks. Lots of good beer out there.

 

I don't have an issue with oh. I've been drinking their beers for years. I just have an issue with batch inconsistencies when it comes to ipas. Nothing personal I just think we all deserve better for the money we are spending

 

Batch inconsistency could be related to the quality of the hop harvest of the year. Just like how some fruit may be sweeter than last year's summer fruit. Or how there are better vintages of wine compared to other years. E.g. 2015 Napa Cab is great, 2016 not so much.

For the "inconsistency" you're detecting...how do you know it's due to or the quality of the hops or flaws in the process?

 

0 IBU Hazy IPA? The opposite.

OH had a crazy collab a few years ago...that something similar to that I think....

 

Not sure of either. Either way we're paying the same price for a shot in the dark. Craft recipes should get better over time imo

 

I think HDHC is mostly bunk and have noted here and on Untappd. I still buy it because its good, if not always better.

I'll never forget Topical Depression, which I think was OH's first 0 IBU beer (maybe their last? Was also a collab). Awful stuff.

Did anyone get both HDHC Green City and Dream City? With the Hop Showers releasing tomorrow I'll probably get the Green City but was curious if the hop profile on both of those came out the same (melon forward).

For stocking up for my July retreat this has been a banging line up to load up on and really I don't mind the extra $10 in HDHC surcharges.

 

Feels like the trains left the station already. We shifted from IPA to DDH IPA pretty quickly with OH, just think of a time when ACE, Space Diamonds, Broccoli, Mylar Forever Simcoe and such were normal IPAs and then DDH versions would pop up here and there and people went nuts. We haven't seen a non DDH version of those in years. Now its all DDH every time, HDHC is the new new and it seems after a while will become the norm. If people buy why not push it, it feel like this week is a test run for that shift.

This, my friends I follow I trust their rating, much like when I ask for a review on here. But overall on Untappd its unfair to base a beer off what it is rated. I won't look at a rating on something someone has sent me or given me until after I drink it and have mine in my head. Most people rate the beer off their personal tastes and how they like it vs rating it for the style it is and how it should look/taste.

 

Somewhere between DDH and HDHC wasn’t cryo that new shit?