- [Narrator] Today you're here to try Irish IPAs.
- Woo! Wait, wait Irish Indian pale ales
or Irish Irish pale ales?
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- But I wouldn't like, buy cans of it
for like, a session in a forest or something.
- Yeah. How many forests do you go to?
- Plenty.
- You know what the problem with IPAs is?
See what I love about them
is that they're really, really strong.
But what I hate is the gas.
- Whenever I think of IPAs, I think of Abe Simpson
in the Simpsons movie when he goes "EPA!"
- Oh yeah.
- EPA!
- IPA, not EPA.
- I know.
- Okay.
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- Galway Hooker.
- The presentation is just...
- Yeah, the can is so stylish.
- Oh, look at the mermaid.
Or is that, oh, not a mermaid.
Fomóraigh.
That's an old Irish traditional thing
that would've fought Cú Chulainn and the likes.
Her elbow's a lemon.
The old Irish myth.
If you drink too many beers,
your elbow turns into a lemon
and the fomóraigh will get you in your sleep.
- I don't really like drinking from glasses though.
I prefer cans.
- Hm.
You're just getting classier and classier.
- I actually put it into a boot and...
- There we go.
- Extremely gassy, but very tasty.
- Has that nice citrusy kick.
- Yeah, it's...
You wouldn't have a lot of them though, would you?
- I guess not, no.
- I'm not mad on hops.
Is anybody mad on hops?
- You can taste the hops, can't you?
- Sure, whatever hops are, sure.
- Yeah, I'll be burping
or getting indigestion a lot in this video.
Whereas Jamie will probably be farting.
- Yeah, most likely.
- Yeah.
- You're saying that you wouldn't drink many of them, but
- No.
- That's the barometer of how
all Irish people drink anything
is can I drink all of it?
- Yeah.
- Can I drink a lot of it tonight?
I can't just have one of these.
I need to have 10 of them.
- And still eat a kebab.
- Yeah, and if I can't have 10 of them,
then I don't want it.
- Nope.
- How jealous would everyone else in the forest be
if you turned up with one of these?
- So you're asking me how jealous people would be
in the forest if I turned up with a Galway Hooker?
- Yeah.
Okay, they might be slightly disappointed
if you brought the can, but...
- But I think you drink this for show, more so than flavor.
- And it's a conversation starter as well.
- Yeah.
- You could just walk up to someone and go:
hey, wanna see my Hooker?
- Maybe don't say that, but you know.
- It's nice for one
but you wouldn't spend the whole day sessioning on it.
- No.
- Do you know what I mean?
- You can keep that in the west coast huh?
Yeah.
- Wow.
(burp)
- You're like Evel Knievel after he just jumped 10 buses.
He's okay, folks.
She's okay.
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- Straight up IPA.
- Dot Brew.
I've never heard of Dot.
- I like the design of these.
- Whoa.
(burp)
- Oh nice.
- Here they come.
I told you, I warned you.
- 7/10 we'll rate that one.
- Yeah.
- Dot Brew?
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- That's an 8/10.
That was an 8/10.
- This looks like the poster
for an electronic music festival.
- Yeah, it really does.
You going to Dot Brew this year?
- Yeah mate.
I gonna, going to Dot.
Where is it?
It's on an island off of Achill.
Yeah, they only have one type of beer.
And Aphex Twin is playing there for 72 hours.
It's gonna be amazing.
- I like the packaging.
- Yeah.
And the front is like an indie band album cover.
- The bright straight up fruity IPA.
- Healthy hits of malted and flaked oats
and double dry hopped with Centennial and Idaho Seven.
It does sound like bands that would play at Dot Brew.
Are you seeing Centennial later?
- Yeah mate.
- Yeah.
- What stage are they playing on?
They're playing at the Dot stage, right?
- 3, 2, 1.
- Oh God, it's awful.
Oh no, it's nice.
Oh God.
- I like that.
- It's lovely, actually, yeah.
- It's very similar to the other one.
- This one's better though.
- Do you think so?
- Yeah.
- And it's 6%.
- Yeah, how'd they do that?
How is it less tasting, but stronger?
Usually there'd be more of a AH, you know?
- Yeah.
- But it's more of a uh.
- It's not too harsh either.
That's very nice to drink.
Isn't it?
Geez, that's lovely.
- I think they're both nice.
I think this one's definitely more flavorsome.
- Do not get me wrong, I'm having a ball.
I'm having a party.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Like, yeah woo woo!
I'm having a great time, Jamie.
- I think I could definitely have
like three or four of these.
- Yeah.
- Just sitting in my tent
while I'm like hearing Justice in the background
and I'm going oh no! They're on!
- Oh God.
Oh fuck.
- This is more like your straight up lager
than the other one.
The other one was very hoppy and very gassy.
This is a little bit more straight up.
- [Narrator] Straight up IPA?
- I didn't even know I was doing it.
- Fruity tone.
- There you go.
Straight up.
(burp)
- Nice one.
(burp)
- That should be our reactions to everything from now on.
So guys how'd you find that one?
- Bleh!
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- Handsome Jack.
- Oh.
- Oh, I've had this one.
- Oh my God, again?
It's like the Galway Hooker style of it feels good,
it has bevels in it.
- It says Handsome Jack, Jack Criss,
was also known as Jack the bachelor.
He was a 17th century Irish pirate.
He didn't die in battle, but was stabbed to death
in a "napless" hotel.
- Naples.
- Naples hotel.
Well wasn't much napping.
- Stabbed him in his napples.
- Anyway, he was stabbed to death in a Naples hotel,
probably by one of his four wives.
Some bachelor!
Here's to Jack!
- Lads, lads, lads.
- That's how I want to go.
- Jack, the pirate.
So one of your four wives is gonna kill you.
- In a Naples hotel.
- Anyone with four wives is asking to get stabbed to death
by one of them, you know?
- This is a good one.
- Here's to Handsome Jack.
- Handsome Jack.
- IP nay?
- Yeah?
- Giving me a Robert De Niro impression there?
- Handsome Jack definitely had attitude
and it's put into this can.
- Yeah.
Bit of attitude.
You know?
You know me mean?
Do you know what we mean?
By attitude?
Yeah, thought so.
- It says on it: citrusy, malty, bitter.
- Citrusy, malty, bitter.
That's exactly right.
- Handsome Jack didn't smooth talk his way outta this one.
He just said exactly what it was.
- It's strong flavored, isn't it?
- It is.
I like it though.
(burp)
- Sorry.
- Here come the burps.
- It's got a Dublin attitude about it.
Like, if you're not from Dublin,
you're gonna go, that's a...
- Ah fuck off.
Like, leave me alone.
- But once do you get to know it,
and when you get to appreciate it.
- They're actually quite nice.
- Actually quite nice.
- There were so many Irish pirates, wasn't there?
We didn't really have much going on.
The Famine.
So we're like, ah, might as well get into pirating.
- Take to to the seas.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, yeah, this land isn't doing anything for us.
Let's go take this water out for a spin.
- You couldn't drink many of these.
- No.
- Very similar though.
When I, when I did,
I went through a run through there really quick.
- Jamie, you're getting that wild look in your eyes
that you get when you drink.
I've seen that look before.
It's just like, it's a little bit cra-
it's like it's in control,
but it's like a little bit crazed and I'm like, Jamie?
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- Ooh.
- Hey, I've had this one before, Kinnegar.
- Thumper double IPA and it's hoppy rabbits here.
So I'm guessing it's a very hoppy one now.
- I only recently watched Bambi
and yeah the rabbit is called Thumper
and I'm kind of obsessed because there's one bit
where Bambi's acting a way, doing something
at one point Thumper just goes...
Like, this guy.
Taking the piss with his eyes.
- When we drink it, we have to go...
- Wait, whatever Sean asks us next.
- This one's from Donegal.
- It's from, of course it is.
They fucking have Thumper there, left right center.
- Thumping hops, flavor and aromas
inspire our double IPA's name Thumper.
- Hm.
Do you know why, like, they they're so jumpy?
'Cause there's so many waves.
Everyone talks like waves.
They go up and down and up and down.
And the rabbits are jumping up and down.
- Oh yeah.
- Super hoppy.
Super hoppy.
- It is.
- This is like, two rabbits on a Pogo stick.
It's fucking hoppin' on.
- Hoppin' on.
- But yet it's easier to drink
than the other ones that are lower percentages.
- [Narrator] You're on your fourth beer now.
How are you feeling?
- I'm feeling wonderful.
- This guy.
- God, banter.
We're great together.
We're like Ross and Rachel.
- I know.
Will they, won't they, who knows?
- [Narrator] Is it a step up or a step down?
- Oh, my favorite so far.
- It's like somebody took a jump
and then they grabbed like five rungs up the ladder
and just pulled themselves up.
That's what this one is.
(burp)
- That was a mistake.
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- Oh no.
(burps)
Oh no.
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- You can probably put music onto this.
- [Narrator] It was like a chorus.
(singing)
- [Narrator] So guys, now that you've had
four varieties of...
- What?
We're done?
No!
- [Narrator] Whatcha think overall?
- Is that all we get?
- [Narrator] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Usually I would say,
oh we're probably handling this better than the other pairs.
I don't know.
- Like this has been a session.
- Yeah.
I feel like I've been in a forest.
- Oh.
- It feels...
- Firsthand, abso-fucking-lutely.
- Irish IPAs definitely make me say IP yay.
Okay, come on.
Come on, that was... alright.
- [Narrator] Which is the best and which is the worst?
- This one.
- Yeah, same.
- Yes.
Best flavor, best can.
If we could pour this out and pour this into it, perfect.
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We're off to a forest.
- We're going to a forest now.
I'm gonna drink all of these from a shoe
and see what happens.
Hopefully I see things.
- So bye.