Other Half Brewery’s Line of Fans Faced a Beer-Hating Man Who Pulled a Gun on Friday

Man threatens Other Half Brewing customers with a gun

Carroll Gardens’s cult-favorite brewery Other Half Brewing’s famed beer line had some intense drama over the weekend: A man pulled a gun on customers, who were waiting around the block for the limited-edition beers that are usually released Saturday mornings at the beer destination, at 191 Center Street, near Hamilton Avenue. No shots were fired, and no one was injured, the New York Post reports, but police eventually took the man away in handcuffs.

For the most part, though, it sounds like the Other Half fans found the man’s seemingly senseless nagging to be funny: The disgruntled man, who was staying at a rental nearby, told them that they were “a bunch of idiots waiting on line for beer,” one customer told the Post. In another apparent taunt, the man also threw a can of White Claw at the line. The customers “talked some s–t back,” and the man reportedly went inside his Airbnb and came back out with a gun and pointed it at at the crowd, the Post writes. But customers were able to quickly de-escalate the situation; the man went back inside and was arrested a short while after.

Other Half has a developed a cult following for its IPAs, particularly among the Wall Street crowd, and is set to open a new location in South Williamsburg sometime this year. Fans regularly wait in line for limited-edition cans.

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Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article stated that Las’ Lap is opening a second location. It is in fact expanding its current location. Eater regrets the error.