Matthew L.
Yelp
Other Half Brewing Company is a craft brewery that opened in Brooklyn, New York in 2014. It was founded by business partners Matt Monahan, Andrew Burman and head brewer Sam Richardson. Richardson grew up in Portland, Oregon and got his start brewing through Oregon State University's Fermentation Science Program. After finishing school, he moved to Brooklyn and began working at Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co.. Here he met Monahan and Burman who were both originally from the Washington D.C. area. They had a dream to open their own brewery with a simple mission: to create beers that they wanted to drink from a company that they wanted to be a part of. The brewery's name is a reference to the fact that they wanted to represent the "Other Half" of the beer industry. Through a Craigslist ad, the partners found an industrial garage located under the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood. At the time, that area wasn't so desirable. The land sits next to the Gowanus Canal which is NYC's most polluted body of water. In spite of the odds against them, Other Half's reputation and popularity grew at a very fast rate. In addition to their original location in Carroll Gardens, Other Half now has locations in Brooklyn's Domino Park, Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, Finger Lakes (Bloomfield, New York), Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Several new breweries have also popped up in Brooklyn since Other Half opened; the borough has turned into a brewer's paradise. Prior to Other Half opening, Brooklyn only had three breweries.
I visited Other Half's Domino Park location (which opened in March 2021) this past summer while I was cycling around NYC. I was trying out a number of Brooklyn breweries and pizzerias and this was my fourth stop of the day. I had previously visited their flagship and Rockefeller Center locations (and loved them). This location featured a gorgeous view of the park and the East River. Like Other Half's other taprooms, this one had no shortage of my favorite kind of beer: hazy, hoppy, unfiltered IPAs! I ordered short pours of "Citra Daydream" (IPA), "Citra Today, Tomorrow, Forever" (Double IPA), "Canal Street" (Double New England IPA), and "Triple Dry Hopped Triple Cream" (Triple New England IPA). The latter was my favorite! If you happen to visit Domino Park, be sure to grab some phenomenal craft brews at Other Half!