How the Other Half Lives In DC: Lagers, Collabs, and an October Opening

A courtyard divides 1401 Okie St NE in Ivy City, just south of New York Avenue. Brooklyn-based Other Half Brewing Company is building out both sides of it, with a bar and to-go sales on the western side, closer to Fenwick and New Columbia Distilling, and canning and production on the eastern. The property has housed canning equipment before; it used to be the Pappas Tomato Factory.

The courtyard dead-ends at an old train car, incongruously sporting a green roof. At some point in the near future, Other Half is going to outfit this into a “lager bar.”

Lagers, on average, take longer to make than ales like the hazy IPAs Other Half is known for. They’re more than up to the challenge, with enough tank space to nearly double the amount of beer all of DC brewed in 2019.

Yes, you read that correctly. The sum total of all beer brewed in the District last year was just under 36,000 barrels, per the Brewers Association. At full capacity, whi

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