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Exclusively for our All Access subscribers, here’s an early peek at a recipe from our upcoming Winter 2024 issue—also our annual Best in Beer issue. In our Ask the Pros department, contributing writer Ryan Pachmayer goes to Other Half to get the details on a beloved double hazy IPA from Other Half. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Other Half now has seven breweries that stretch from New York to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.—and they all brew Broccoli, one of five core beers (all of them IPAs).
“Broccoli has been a staple of our portfolio for nearly a decade,” says Sam Richardson, Other Half’s cofounder and brewmaster, who shares this homebrew-scale recipe. “We don’t have one beer that is 70 percent of what we make—we don’t have anything close to that.”
The name references green things: “It’s kind of slang for weed,” Richardson says. “I’ve always felt like this beer is going for a little bit of a citrus profile, but with some tropical hop notes, too. That’s always been the goal, and our Simcoe tends to be pretty pineapple—that’s a strong character in the beer.”
ALL-GRAIN
Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.076 (18.3°P)
FG: 1.016 (4.1°P)
IBUs: 31-ish
ABV: 7.9%