The Beer Thread

sweetcell wrote:
so i'm a day late asking this, but did anyone consume anything fun during The Big Game on sunday?

i had:
- a 2019 Backwoods Bastard
- a 2020 Cyclops (a barrel-aged barleywine from Elysian)
- my first bottle of a homebrewed sour aged on peaches - one of the best sours i've made in a while  even dad-in-law liked it.
- a bunch of my Strata/Lemon Drop IPA (a little too much, according to the missus…)

i had some BCBS and a few others chilling in the fridge, but (thankfully) they remained there.

Sounds delish. I had half a can of Foam's Distopian Dream Girl. The beer was much dreamier than the game.

what a haul! very jealous

Yada wrote:
#triggerwarning

#NSFSH

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
Wrong thread, but you don't consider Other Half's IPA's to be bitter?

Not the ones I like…

Curious, which ones do you guys recommend
when I went there…25-30 different options available
and Dominion Beer seems to be getting them, but very limited supply

I am certain the ones you list will not be available, because that seems to be the way people list the beer they like

Perseverance-hatch wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:
Wrong thread, but you don't consider Other Half's IPA's to be bitter?

Not the ones I like…

Curious, which ones do you guys recommend
when I went there…25-30 different options available
and Dominion Beer seems to be getting them, but very limited supply

I am certain the ones you list will not be available, because that seems to be the way people list the beer they like

Other Half is really not that "rare." Unless it's some chocolate covered peanut marshmallow almond butter pecan stout, any can is easily accessible.

Personally, I like any of their lower ABV single hop beers… Usually falling into the 6 to 8% mark… nothing with lactose/dream/cream in the name. Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

…haven't evolved enough to dial into the hops I prefer, but I'm getting there

I drove the last time and I was trying to find some low abv beers and 6% was the bottom on a 16 oz
so hard to have more than 2 at that rate

My favorite IPA's these days are also in the 6-8% range, and favorite hops are Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy, when in season. I must admit, I do like the lactose/oat cream stuff, though not necessarily any more than without.

Downtown Crown gets Other Half beers from all three Other Half locations. Dominion only gets Other Half beers from the DC location. Some Beer Advocate people report that the DC brewery doesn't have things as dialed in yet as the other two do. I haven't had any of the DC IPA's so can't report (did have a DC Other Half Crunchee/ Burley Oak JREAM hybrid fruit beer collaboration that was very good.)

Yada wrote:
Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

Good advice here. DDH All Citra Everything is particularly good.

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Yada wrote:
Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

Good advice here. DDH All Citra Everything is particularly good.

can confirm

Space wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Yada wrote:
Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

Good advice here. DDH All Citra Everything is particularly good.

can confirm

can confirm they don't carry any DDH variations in DC
https://my-site-107118-100920.square.site/?location=11eae3d5fe314980b0f30cc47a2b63cc

they do have
Forever Riwaka IPA (6.5%) Nothing but 100% amazing hand selected Riwaka from our friends @freestylehops

Perseverance-hatch wrote:

Space wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Yada wrote:
Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

Good advice here. DDH All Citra Everything is particularly good.

can confirm

can confirm they don't carry any DDH variations in DC
https://my-site-107118-100920.square.site/?location=11eae3d5fe314980b0f30cc47a2b63cc

they do have
Forever Riwaka IPA (6.5%) Nothing but 100% amazing hand selected Riwaka from our friends @freestylehops

If I were buying beer today off that list, my choices would be the following:

double forever simcoe
""        ""        citra
forever riwaka
forever green
double forever cashmere
green dots
forever nelson
forever simcoe

StoneTheCrow wrote:

Yada wrote:
Can't go wrong with the "small" series or the "all" series and then pick the ones hopped with what you like… I prefer Citra, Nelson, Riwaka, Galaxy, and MOsaic.

Good advice here. DDH All Citra Everything is particularly good.

It should be noted that the aforementioned beer, at 8.5%, is above the 6-8 range. However, the Small Citra Everything and DDH Small Citra Everything clock on at 6.5%.

Anybody have an knowledge on the difference between the OH DDH beers and their HDHC beers?

HDHC is an acronym to denote this combo and it stands for High Density Hop Charge due to the extra high hopping rate. We are going for the biggest baddest aromatics we can and it represents around 15 lbs/bbl but with our combo of hop products its as smooth as ever.

Yada wrote:
green dots

Had this last visit and was very tasty

#triggerWarning
#blessBrennser

you are actually going to drink pliny that is a week old…you savage

eccedentesiast-hatch wrote:
you are actually going to drink pliny that is a week old…you savage

Can confirm the hops have really fallen off in 48 hrs.

can almost make you out by the reflection in the bottles
nice wall of windows!

eccedentesiast-hatch wrote:
can almost make you out by the reflection in the bottles
nice wall of windows!

My god, he's lost so much weight, he's almost unrecognizable.

Space wrote:

eccedentesiast-hatch wrote:
can almost make you out by the reflection in the bottles
nice wall of windows!

My god, he's lost so much weight, he's almost unrecognizable.

Haha

eccedentesiast-hatch wrote:
can almost make you out by the reflection in the bottles
nice wall of windows!

to be clear, those are screens not windows - I'm not reckless enough to hang out with Yada indoors during a pandemic  8)

and speaking of Other Half DC beers I recently tried one called Bright Edges

A disgusting oniony hot mess of a beer and an instant drain pour