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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
4 Pines Stout if you want a stout with more weight and presence,
O'Hara's Irish Stout if you want something leaner and more session-friendly.
The ABV difference is small—just 0.3%—but it matters here. Both clock the same bitterness, so you're choosing between two different philosophies of stout restraint: Australian versus Irish.
At a glance
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Structurally near-identical
Structurally these two are the same beer. Body, sweetness, bitterness and texture match within Δ 1. Both share prominent roasted and dry character — the differences are too fine for the tracked axes to name.
Beer DNA
Body
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Situations
In words
4 Pines Stout
4 Pines hits with actual body. There's a cocoa-and-dark-grain backbone that feels earned, not just suggested. The 4.6% sits just high enough that you notice the alcohol warming your throat slightly on the finish. It's a stout that remembers it's supposed to be substantial, even at this lower ABV.
O'Hara's Irish Stout
O'Hara's is the drinker's stout—smooth, dry, almost delicate in how it moves across your palate. The roast is there but restrained, more like burnt toast than blackened wood. At 4.3%, it's genuinely easy to have two or three of these without feeling anchored to your seat.
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