Other Half Brewery Thread (November 2015)

It's a shame that they waited so long to lower the limits. I'm sure I'm not the only one who turned around when they saw OH's tweet at 8:50am that if you're not in line yet, you probably won't get any. If I'd known they were going to lower the limits, I might have stuck around. Oh well, no big deal, I went and found some Purple Prose instead.

I agree with others who suggest a ticketing system of some sort. Then again, as others have mentioned, it's doubtful another release will be as crazy as this. Unless, of course, they do a collab with someone like Tree House or Hill Farmstead...

 

Any chance we see this brewed again?

 

Thursday releases at Tree House I've witnessed a good amount of cutting pre 5 pm opening and people drinking in their cars. I've also been there once when the cops were called due to parking/neighbor issues. People are lame sometimes. Unfortunately it crosses state lines.

 

I would vote for tickets being sold the Wednesday before release with a max sold. Then the rest sold Saturday morning. That way it gives hopefully a benefit to the locals wednesday, and then still some out of towners can line up at the ass crack of dawn on saturday.

 

i think i finally felt my age today being on my feet for 4 hours

 

Most likely not. If they were to do another collab, I'm sure it would be something different.

Because it usually takes a line like the one today to implement it. While the lines for cans have been long in the past, they have been nothing like they have been today.

 

BTW - The Jeffrey has 30 of OH beers on tap today. No Street Green, but plenty of other good ones.

 

No idea if Other Half folks ever browse this forum but assume they read the comments on their Instagram posts. That people are setting up trades for their Street Green cans in the Instagram comments has gotta be disheartening to see when you know you've got regulars who are sitting this one out, and are cutting limits twice so you can try to get your beer to people who actually want to drink it.

 

What's with the hating on the weed? It's 2015 people, not 1975. These beers taste the way weed smells and hops and cannabis are literally cousins.

Sorry if you brought your 12 year old to a beer release in Brooklyn, but get real.

 

I bet today drew out a lot of people who had been looking to visit OH for a while, and this gave them the best excuse to do so. I doubt we'll see a repeat of today until the next megasuperbrewery-collaboration.

Although bottles of the new imp. stout are apparently being released in a few weeks, so that could draw out a fairly large crowd as well.

 

I am no line cutter, in fact...you know me...might not recognize my username, but we've slayed whales together.

all that aside, this is all a microcosm of society...other half decided they open at 10 and serve beer, the people decided to line up outside the brewery...just like anything else in the world, you want food, you need to take a piss, etc...you wait your turn. in any situation there could be a line cutter or there could be a fight. some businesses decide to invest in managing the line. you see that at Walmart of all places where someone has a walkie talkie and directs people to registers...you see it in the airport security line...to some extent you see it at theme parks. other half can choose to invest in managing the line as well. that could be a low cost solution like handing out bracelets early and cutting them off the wrist at the time of purchase, or they can have someone stand outside and monitor instead of shuffling around cases to move the line once it gets going.

they are a small operation. I am sure they are psyched to be this popular and even have this problem to deal with. I still don't think it is on them to manage this. it is up to society. if we can be civil in the supermarket, if we can be civil anywhere else there is a line (and i am full aware that often we cannot always be civil)...then we should manage the line.

if it becomes problematic for the business...if neighbors complain, police show up, etc...then the business will be forced to change how they release beer or potentially hurt their business.

in a nutshell, if we can't be grown up about it, then other half will be forced to change and cans will get released ad hoc without notice and then there will be no lines and everyone will bitch and moan that they don't get enough notice on releases.

no matter what the situation beer geeks will whine and complain BECAUSE they are all entitled.

 

I'm not sure why you keep throwing out the entitled word, at least with respect to line cutting. Whining about people cutting in line has nothing to do with entitlement. Especially because it sounds like many people in this thread confronted, or saw others confront, line cutters, just to have the cutters totally ignore them. You said it yourself - people should be grown up about this, which means they shouldn't be cutting the line in the first place. Expecting to stand in an orderly line without cutting is hardly an "entitled" attitude - we live in a civilized society, not the wild west.

 

The only thing I'm miffed about is lowering the limits.

Look, I understand it. But I probably waited in line more than the person who showed up at 7:30 (I showed up at 8:30). They knew the demand was high by already dropping the can limit from 4 to 3 the other night. They should have had it at 2 from the get go and it probably would have deterred people from lining up at 6am and allowed for more people to try their beer. It just seems to throw an arbitrary drop off of limits is unfair. Why not go to one 4 pack per person at 1pm?

Having said all that, the beer community can be extremely lame. Just because someone is having a beer release doesn't make it a f'ing phish show. Eventually NYC cops will catch on and make it HELL for everyone involved. Mark my words. Also, it's just beer, don't drag your sig. other/friend to wait in line 5 hours so you can get a few extra cans to trade. It's like baseball cards for adults these days.

 

this makes no sense. all the beer will be drank by someone. and for someone who has 21 trade feedback points to make a post like that is the ultimate in entitled sour grapes. let me see if I understand...your tradinformation of beer is okay, because you never trade anything that anyone wants and missed out on and you never trade it for something that someone else wanted and missed out on? that comment had to be a joke?

 

The most egregious line cutting attempt I saw was a lady walking up to the horseshoe line in the canning room at 12pm and just hopped on the back of the line. A bouncer gave her the most intense look and she acted all inconspicuous 'oh, i thought this was the line for cans.' SMH

 

Seems like you missed his point. Regulars didn't get beer because traders got it instead. He believes that Other Half should cater to their regulars first. Whether you agree with that approach or not is another story, but it certainly "makes sense" and is a perfectly defensible position to take.

 

line cutters are the lowest of the low. although not as serious of a crime as theft or assault it is extremely scummy, but if someone was stealing your wallet and you said hey don't do that and they flipped you off and did it anyway, would you just let it happen? if someone cuts and the people around have no problem with it, then hot dog....make room for everyone else to cut who does have a problem with it. I am not saying that you should get into a violent altercation, but don't just stand there and post online about it and if you gonna do that, get the douchebags picture and post at least that.


shame (ring ring) shame (ring ring) SHAME (ring ring)

 

not only does it smell gross, but if a bunch of burnouts are smoking weed on the line for other half cans and neighbors pitch a fit about it to the community board, other half could be in a world of shit.

 

Right, but as I said, there are numerous examples in this thread of people saying that they confronted the line cutters, or saw someone else confront them, only for the cutters to ignore them and stay in place. I'm not sure what else you can do at that point short of some kind of physical altercation, which you say you don't suggest. I guess they could go alert someone at OH to not sell to the cutters, but they have enough shit to deal with given the crowds.

 

I get it and maybe I am playing devils advocate a bit, but saying regulars should get is the same as saying regulars are entitled to get over non regulars and that is what I have a problem with. just because you got into it first doesn't mean you deserve anything any more than someone who has never tasted it.

you are probably that guy who gets shut out of a concert and whines that you are a bigger fan and should get to go. it is amazing at how few people actually understand what entitlement is and why it is bad. I mean by your ligic, what makes a "regular" anyway? how would feel if someone who shows their face at the brewpub a few more times than you gets cans and you don't but they get them cause you were sick for one release and they weren't ever sick? sounds like a dumb rule to me. if you want to "reward" your "regulars" make a club and make beer for just ppl in that club. public sale is for the public.