Ultimate Irish Craft 6 pack

nosietoes

Hey,

my brother is coming home for Christmas so I need to buy him a present for once and he is impossible to buy for.

I decided to give him a mixed 6 pack of Irish beers so he wouldn't have to carry them all home but they need to be great... He has been living in Portland for the last 8 years so is rather spoilt but not a snob.

So far I was thinking:

Leann Folláin barrel aged
Dungarven Oatmeal Stout
O'Hara's IPA

Want to try the new 8 degrees back to blacks and may possible throw in a Dark Arts Porter.

What would be in your ultimate Irish 6 pack?

irish_goat

Leann Follain
Helvick Gold
Clotworthy Dobbin
O'Hara's IPA
Blacks Kinsale IPA
Black Rock Stout

drumswan

Good thread!

Copypaste from my ratebeer account

1 Double L Real Cider
2 Franciscan Well Coffee Porter
3 Galway Bay Of Foam and Fury
4 Carlow O’Hara’s Leann Follain
5 Porterhouse Wrasslers XXXX Stout
6 8° Kindred Spirit Stout

BeerNut

On a one-per-brewery basis:
Amber Ella
Barney's Brew
Clotworthy Dobbin
Leann Folláin
Louder
Of Foam & Fury

BaZmO*

I'd probably just get a six pack of Tom Creans

BeardySi

InishMacSaint Lough Erne Porter
Dungarvan Helvick Gold
Hilden Twisted Hop
8 Degrees Knockmealdown Porter
O'Hara's IPA
Trouble Brewing Dark Arts Porter

rubadub

Is he into his beers much? most of my friends would probably not drink or at least not really enjoy most of the stuff mentioned, especially the stouts, and some of them are guinness drinkers. I have gotten a quite a few stouts handed over to me over the years by guinness drinkers.

BaZmO* wrote: »

I'd probably just get a six pack of Tom Creans

Could be the safe option. Also many people prefer not to "mix drinks", for whatever reason, while I think its mad to stick to the same one in a pub with a big selection!

Ravelleman

rubadub wrote: »

Could be the safe option. Also many people prefer not to "mix drinks", for whatever reason, while I think its mad to stick to the same one in a pub with a big selection!

I believe Bazmo's post was ironic.

rubadub

Ravelleman wrote: »

I believe Bazmo's post was ironic.

thought it might be, esp. as it was meant to be about a selection. but still think he might prefer it.

I think I still have 2 beers from a "selection" got for me, one of them a bottle of desperados...

Creamy Goodness

of foam and fury
leann folláin
metalman (in a growler, get him to drink this first for freshness sake).
stonewell cider
kinnegar rustbucket
trouble bewing dark arts

the beer revolu

I thought Of Foam & Fury wasn't being bottled until mid Jan?

Lovely Bloke

the beer revolu wrote: »

I thought Of Foam & Fury wasn't being bottled until mid Jan?

it's not, but Brew Dock fills growlers.

Seaneh

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's not, but Brew Dock fills growlers.

I need to buy a growler.

nosietoes

rubadub wrote: »

Is he into his beers much? most of my friends would probably not drink or at least not really enjoy most of the stuff mentioned, especially the stouts, and some of them are guinness drinkers. I have gotten a quite a few stouts handed over to me over the years by guinness drinkers.

Could be the safe option. Also many people prefer not to "mix drinks", for whatever reason, while I think its mad to stick to the same one in a pub with a big selection!

Em, don't worry about that. I didn't expressly say but Portland, Oregon is the mecca of craft beer. While my brother does love the ole Guinesss now and again because they remind him of his teenage years, he appreciates well made, craft beers or else I wouldn't be trying to come up with a good beer selection for his birthday.

Also, given my initial list - do I really sound like I might be looking at sh**e like desperado?

Love my Stonewell but there will be some in the house for my boyfriend and my brother does not get the joy of cider - philistine :P

Heroditas

Instead of the regular O'Haras IPA, how about their new DIPA instead?

bladebrew

Heroditas wrote: »

Instead of the regular O'Haras IPA, how about their new DIPA instead?

+1 its lovely,
this is my 6 i would nearly pick 6 Leann Follain to be honest!
O` Haras Leann follain
and the Double IPA
a Dungarvan copper coast red ale
trouble brewing dark arts
8 degrees sunburnt irish red
and a galway hooker,