Our final installment of Nerdsense's reviews of Other Half's Darkness Descends!

We're almost through our theme week. 1 more after this one! Hope you've all enjoyed it!

Nerdsense is doing a theme week! We'll be drinking both variants of Other Half's Imperial Stout, Darkness Descends. We'll be dropping solo reviews on the main Nerdsense channel as well as Beers with Reid! Shaun kicks it off with the Maple & Coffee variant! Make sure you hit that notification bell! FOMO is real, people.

Nerdsense is doing a theme week! We'll be drinking both variants of Other Half's Imperial Stout, Darkness Descends. We'll be dropping solo reviews on the main Nerdsense channel as well as Beers with Reid! Shaun kicks it off with the Maple & Coffee variant! Make sure you hit that notification bell! FOMO is real, people.

Shaun's mic cuts out so his audio goes a little low. Technology sucks

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Style: Triple IPA
Container: 2 x 16oz can
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Part of Omnipollo’s biggest collaborative event Omnipolloscope, a synchronized global release two year in the making, collab with Omnipollo, Monkish, Other Half, Crooked Stave, O/O , Stigbergets, Anchorage, Equilibrium, Cellarmaker and The Veil . (10%)

Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 12oz Can
Notes: Imperial milk stout brewed with lactose, oats, chocolate and other spices.(9.7%)

We had some technical difficulties and lost half the recording so we had to re-record it. It then decided to not use the lapel mics so audio is wonky. Sorry

Style: Triple IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Now Even More Diamonds!!! More Galaxy and more of everything else. (10.5%)

Style: Pale Ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware:This double dry hopped pale ale contains the same base ingredients, for both malt and hops, as Fort Point Pale Ale, but with an additional dry hop of Citra. The added hops richly enhance the juicy tropical fruit flavors of pineapple/mango, create elevated green, herbaceous aromatics, and increase body. (6.6%)

Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Brewed with @angrychairbrewing. Modeled after the classic Italian dessert, we layered this stout up with pistachios, cacao nibs, cherries and lactose to create this version of Spumoni ice cream. (12.5%)

Style: Triple IPA
Container: 16oz
Glassware: TRIPLE HOMESTYLE showcases even more mosaic in citrus-berry-juice glory + the same smooth demeanor you know, but a bold style that’s decidedly distinctive. (10%)

Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 750ml Bottle
Glassware: A wash of smooth, roasty cà phê đá (Vietnamese iced coffee) balances the sweeter tones of the palate with a slight and rounded bitterness. Viscous and full bodied with a luscious, creamy mouthfeel, Biscotti & Coffee makes for a rousing toast to cap off any evening spent in good company. (13.8%)

Style: Imperial Milk Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Our imperial milk stout brewed with WeldWerks Brewing is soft as mallow, smooth as chocolate, with the buttery warmth of graham crackers. (Because yes, it has all those delicious bits in it.) MOON DUST recalls the carefree bliss of lunchbox trades, hazy summer nights, and your grandma’s bountiful pantry. (8.2%)

When the first container from El Salvador arrived this year, we immediately took about 1,400 lbs of the natural processed Tuxpal and poured it into bourbon and rye barrels we received from FEW Spirits. These "light weights" quickly became intoxicated and took on the character from the barrels, adding a nice fruity, boozy accent to the already juicy blood blend.

Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Badass Stemmed Glass that we don’t know the name of
Notes: Pastry meets tiki - A pina colada style stout featuring pineapple and toasted coconut. (12.8%)

Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Balloon Glass
Notes: Hopped with Simcoe, Waimea, Wakatu, & Mosaic. Hop flavors and aromas of Orangina and Fruit Punch. We added Milk Sugar for a smooth, creamy body, allowing the hop flavors to linger.(8%)

Style: Pilsner
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Badass Stemmed Glass that we don’t know the name of
Notes:Brett Pilsner fermented in Oak (6.9%)

Style: Milk Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Darkling Glass
Notes: The flavor profile punches well above its alcohol content, with heavy milk chocolate and chocolate syrup notes balances by a gentle and rounded coffee character. Despite its heft it retains a wonderful and fluffy drinkability. (6.5%)

Style: Imperial Milk Stout
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Badass Stemmed Glass that we don't know the name of
Notes: I Will Not Be Afraid is an immensely enjoyable Tree House Imperial Milk Stout. We taste intense syrupy dark chocolate, caramelized candy sugar, chocolate covered espresso beans, and a hint of cherry cola. This beer is luxurious and silky, like chocolate clouds, yet never relies on an overly saccharine complexion to bring out the intense and complex flavors we have worked so diligently to impart (9.3%)

Style: Bock
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Stemmed Balloon
Notes: Full-bodied and sparkling with an effervescent mouthfeel. Thus, the Vitus does not taste like a typical Bock beer but more like a noble, fruity wheat beer. Perfect with red meat, strong cheese and also able to guide desserts. (7.7%)

Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Oatmeal Stout
Container: 12oz bottle
Glassware: Stemmed Balloon
Notes: Velvet Merkin is the beer that almost wasn’t…Indeed, this vintage oatmeal stout’s comical (or is it scandalous?) name went off the grid for several years, but now it’s back due to popular demand. Velvet Merkin is aged for a full year in retired spirits barrels from Heaven Hill, Woodford Reserve and others, yet manages to offer mind-­boggling balance and restraint. You will wig out when you taste Velvet Merkin’s rich milk chocolate, bourbon and espresso flavors, preceded by aromas of vanilla, coconut, toasted oak and mocha. .(7.9%)

Style: Whiskey & Brandy Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 12oz can
Glassware: Stemmed Balloon
Notes: Bamburana unfolds on the palate with forward-facing roasted malt flavors that branch out against a dark fruit backdrop of figs and dates. Then, brandy and whiskey accents make themselves known with complex boozy-and-sweet flavors, complementing the warmth and spice of Amburana wood.(12.2%)

Style: Fruited Sour
Container: 12oz can
Glassware: Stemmed Balloon
Notes: Raspberry crème brûlée sour ale brewed with lactose sugar, raspberries and vanilla. (6%)

Style: Dark Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Tekus
7.8%

Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 16.9oz Bottle
Glassware: Stemmed Balloon
Notes: The base of this bourbon barrel aged imperial stout was brewed last Halloween with our buddies at Arizona Wilderness and aged for 1 year in Willett Barrels giving it a great bourbon forward character. The Gold Version was then conditioned on peanut butter, cacao nibs, and vanilla (14.3%)

Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 750ml Bottle
Glassware: Teku
Notes:
King in the North pours jet black with a thick tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate blend with those of oak, bourbon, and vanilla. The flavor is rich and full with notes of chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and roasted malt up front followed by smooth bourbon and a hint of oak. The finish is thick and chewy with oatmeal creaminess, and pleasant lingering roast. (11%)

Style: Quadruple
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Teku's
Notes: Day of Doom is a Belgian Quadruple, with big flavor of fig, dark cherries and plum, and finishes off with mild notes of caramel. (11%)

Style: Imperial Milk Stout
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Miles To Go Before I Sleep is an imperial milk stout brewed with a complex assortment of roasted malts, lactose, peanut butter, and chocolate. It pours motor oil black in the glass and emits rich aromas of chocolate covered peanut butter cups, chocolate covered peanuts, and toasted marshmallow. (9.1%)

Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Arome Glass
Notes: Lotus hops (7%)

Style: Imperial Porter with Coffee
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Mini Teku
Notes: Tree House Description: It tastes like the most beautifully harmonious cup of coffee we’ve ever had, with virtually no bitterness, and densely packed coffee flavors. It is richly flavorful without weighing down the palate, and it finishes cleanly and boldly (8.8%)

Style: Sour Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Sour Ale w/ orange zest and milk sugar (5.5%)

Style: Russian Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon and Apple Brandy Barrels
Container: 750ml
Glassware: Darkling Glass
Notes: Imperial Stout Aged In Bourbon Barrels and Short Path Apple Brandy Barrels (12.9%)

Style: Cascadian Dark Ale
Container: 500ml
Glassware: Arome Glass
Notes: (7.2%)

Style: Milk Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Tree House 6th Anniversary Teku
Notes: We are excited to present the first variant of our coffee milk stout: SINGLE SHOT w/ Vanilla Bean! This modification builds upon the original by conditioning the finished beer on Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans. We also varied the typical coffee blend by infusing a single beautiful coffee, Guatemala Candelaria! What resulted is a beer that exhibits a subtle and well integrated vanilla note with rich coffee character while retaining a wonderful airiness and drinkability. The crew here tastes bourbon chocolate, brown sugar, and vanilla with a soft coffee acidity on the finish. The vanilla reveals nuanced character as it warms, though never overwhelming the senses, with the coffee notes slowly mellowing. (6.4%)

Style: Scotch Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stouts with Brett
Container: 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Dark Arts aged in scotch barrels. First beer to reach the NC 15% ABV Limit. (15%)

Style: Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stouts
Container: 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Aged in Blanton's bourbon barrels. (10.5%)

Damon (1993-2004) The time spent with loved ones, now lost, seems to affect our mind and body perpetually: memories happen upon us, unsuspectingly, and bring about tears of fond remembrance. Damon was our brother – devout and patient in an age of busyness and distraction. In his honor, we crafted and conditioned this Imperial Stout in bourbon barrels from our favorite distillery. We still reflect, daily, upon our Damon and his scruffy chin of grey – of his loyalty and his love.

Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts
Container: 750ml & 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Vanilla Rye (2014) This years version features a little twist of aging the stout in Rye Whiskey Barrels with a mix of Mexican and Madagascar vanilla beans!
(13.6%)
Vanilla (2018)
Utilizing whole grade A vanilla beans from Madagascar, Vanilla delivers on all the quintessential things fans love about this variant: aromatic vanilla, marshmallow, toffee, oak, and floral notes highlighting the creamy mouthfeel and enhancing the chocolate flavors. (14.9%)

Style: Belgian Dubbel
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Spencer Belgian
Notes: Brewed with flaked oats, cacao nibs and two types of crushed locally-roasted coffee beans, our Belgian-style Dubbel is an eye-opening take on a classic style.
(7.2%)

Style: Imperial IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Our friends from Vermont came to Brooklyn and brewed a delicious beer with us containing Pilsner malt, wheat and oats. We then hopped it aggressively with Galaxy and our hand selected Nelson Sauvin.
(8%)

Style: Farmhouse Ale
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Light, crisp and refreshing farmhouse with notes of banana, cloves and malty sweetness. (4.7%)

Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Teku's
Notes: King Julius is an American Double IPA brewed to be an exceptionally flavorful, juicy, and hop saturated beer without rough edges or abrasiveness. Its vivid citrus aromas give way to flavors of orange creamsicle, mango smoothie, and a bounty of fresh tropical fruit. We find it to be refined and delicate amid an onslaught of flavor. Originally brewed in 2012, King Julius is our endeavor to marry our past with what we aspire to be in the future. (8.2%)

This year we decided to review this beer solo given the other beers we wanted to review. It just made sense logistically do this separately during the week since we both had cans of it. Two doses of Nerdsense to go with your Saturday morning cartoons!

Style: Triple IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: The Streets
Notes: The culmination of all our Street beers over the past 6 years, The Streets is a Triple IPA brewed to celebrate our anniversary. Using the same base recipe and bumping the ABV up to 10.6%, we dry hopped with Amarillo, Mosaic, Galaxy, El Dorado, Simcoe, Nelson, Vic Secret, & Enigma. Additionally, as a nod to the neighborhood, we also added Citra to the dry hop this year, the signature hop used for our Fort Point Pale Ale
(10.6%)

Style: Kolsch style ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Sprang Glasses
Notes: Sprang is refreshingly light bodied with aromatics of earthy evergreen, passion fruit, and faint doughy malt. Flavors of concord grape, mango, and herbaceous white wine interweave with cracker-crisp, pilsner malt character and minimal bitterness. The finish is dry with a lasting touch of grain. 
(4.9%)

Style: Triple IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Spiegelau BBA Glasses
Notes: Pouring an eye catching golden yellow with a heavy milky haze, Ballmer Peak has an explosively aromatic nose revealing mouthwatering tones of mango nectar, pineapple slices, and vibrant orange peel. Ripe stone fruit flavors of apricot and peach build on the palate adding to a melange of tropical papaya, lime, melon and lychee. With a pillowy soft mouthfeel, pleasant biscuity sweetness, and rounded floral bitterness,
(10.6%)

Notes: Dark chocolate, roasted nut, earthy

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Style: Coffee Porter
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Spiegelau BBA Glass
Notes: The warm and inviting aromas of our Trillium Blend Cold Brew dominate the nose with highlights of toasted hazelnut, dark chocolate and toffee. Bold, roasty and balanced; Coffee Pot & Kettle displays deep flavors of cacao nibs, caffè americanos, and dark malts with an oatmeal-based creaminess accentuated by a velvety and smooth carbonation.
(7.5%)

Style: Belgian Dubbel
Container: 11.2oz bottle
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Westvleteren's dubbel can be recognized by its blue cap. Like the other Westvleteren beers, the bottle does not have a label, and the cap therefore has all the required information.
(8%)

Style: Wheat Ale
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: American Wheat Ale with black tea, lemon peel, and lactos
(5.6%)