Other Half Tap Takeover in London

Beer and Spirits
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Even as thirds I’m not sure I can manage all these on a school night. Which do folks on here with with OH experience rate highest?

  1. All That and Then Some 9.5% - Imperial IPA
  2. Superfun! 4.2% - Session Pale
  3. Hop Showers 7.4% - IPA
  4. IPA 7%
  5. Forever Ever 4.7% - Session IPA
  6. All Green Everything 10.5% - Imperial IPA
  7. Still GREEN 7% - IPA
  8. Boogie Board Stuntz 4.7% - Kolsch
  9. Chardonnay Brett Saison 6%
  10. Canni’baal 4.9% - Saison
  11. Golden Spelt 4.5% - Spelt Saison
  12. Oat Junkie 6.5% - IPA collaboration with Tired Hands Brewing
  13. Foodre Jooose #1 What Even Though 6.5% - Saison
  14. Galaxy IPA 7%
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Is this for real?!?!?!?! Do whatever you can to make this event Dave! You will not regret it.

I live 45 minutes from the brewery (on a good traffic day) and I’ve never heard of bout 1/2 of those beers.

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Sure is. And I’ll definitely be there.

Bit more info about each beer here: http://eepurl.com/bAdo8b

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I had the Chardonnay Brett Saison recently and it was brilliant!

5

WOW ! Run do walk to this event. That is one amazing line-up.

Cheers,

Bud

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I was at Other Half yesterday and was talking to one of the brewers who told me the London Beer Carnival was cancelled. Since the beer was already sent, I believe there will be OH poured at events.

Here’s how I would navigate that beer list if they were all ahead of me (I’ve had all of these beers before). If I could sample say half of those in 4 oz pours I would choose the following beers and drink them in the following order: 10 - Canni’baal, 12 Oat Junkie, 13 FJ, 5 Forever Ever, 3 Hop Showers, 14 Galaxy, 6 AGE

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Greg, not a fan of 9? Thought it was excellent better than Cann’ibal) when I had them both a couple of weeks ago.

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Jorge - I thought the chardonnay brett saison was no good. All I got was butter when I had it. Tasted like an over-oaked chardonnay. If you get a chance to try the All Brett Everything, run don’t walk. It’s the same hop profile as AGE, but clocks in at 6.5% and the brett rounds it out. Wonderful.

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Interesting! I had it on draft at Captain Lawrence’s Sour’d in September and definitely didn’t get the buttery, overoaked profile. The Cann’ibal was very good as well but I slightly preferred the Chard Brett. Thanks for the tip on the All Brett. I HAVE to get down to the brewery soon!

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I bet you had the 2d batch. They might have dialed back the oak treatment.

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The brett probably needed to work its magic still, they released it too early or had it too cold. Usually what happens that causes all that butter

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Thanks for all the suggestions. Will post some thoughts tomorrow.

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Most likely the former as I had it the first day it was on in the tasting room.

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Managed to try seven beers last night: six draft pours and then a can that someone fresh back from Brooklyn had with them.

General consensus was that the beers weren’t in great shape; those that have drunk them at the brewery and elsewhere in NYC suspected they’d been shipped a while back and not been stored that well since reaching the UK.

Here’s what I tried:

Canni’baal 4.9% - Saison
Oat Junkie 6.5% - IPA collaboration with Tired Hands Brewing
Super fun! 4.2% - Session Pale
Chardonnay 6% - Brett Saison
Foodre Jooose #1 What Even Though 6.5% - Saison
Hop Showers 7.4% - IPA
Green Diamonds (Can) - Imperial IPA

Oat Junkie was my favourite of the draft pours; fresher and better balanced than the other pales/IPAs.

Foodre Jooose my pick of the saisons. Really didn’t like Chardonnay barrel-aged one which was overpoweringly banana-ey and coconut-ey (not unlike Malibu, actually).

Green Diamonds was great and gave me a sense how good these beers should be.

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Yikes! Too bad Dave. Maybe you should come to New York and try them as they are meant to be!

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That’s not a bad idea, Jorge.

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Sad to hear the beers weren’t showing their best for you in London. If you ever make it to Brooklyn and want to go to the taproom, shoot me a pm.

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Will do, Greg!