Build Your Own 6 Pack

Did this last weekend:

Ithaca - Flower Power
Stone - Ruination
Sierra Nevada - Torpedo
Victory - Dirt Wolf
Founders - Double Trouble
Tröegs - Perpetual

 

I'm guessing you're a bock kind of guy.

 

Bell's Two Hearted
Schlafly Tasmanian IPA
Boulevard Tank 7
Oskar Blues Ten FIDY
Founders Porter
Founders Red's Rye

 

Did a mix four yesterday which consisted of...
Two 16oz Nugget Nectar
SN Celebration
weihenstephaner

 

Hypothetical or Actual? Because I'm going hypothetical (and I hope 16.9oz bottles are allowed because I'm throwing a couple into my hypothetical mixed 6)

Grey Sail - Captain's Daughter
Maine Beer Co. - Another One
Founders - Imperial Stout
Jack's Abby - Kiwi Rising
Dogfish Head - Palo Santo Marron
De Dolle - Stille Nacht

Yeah...that'd make for a delicious couple of days.

 

(1) Uinta Hop Nosh
(1) Karbach Hopadillo
(1) Prarie Bomb!
(1) Sculpin Grapefruit
(1) Southern Star Valkyrie
(1) Lagu Sucks

 

Used to do it a lot, a solid way of getting a good variety. Now the growler station keeps me pretty occupied, especially the ones with 18-24 plus tap handles.

 

Firestone Walker - Double Jack
Unibroue - La Fin Du Monde
Dogfish Head - Burton Baton
Oskar Blues - TenFidy
Stone - Sublimely Self Righteous
Miller - High Life (It's the champagne of beers)

 

I bought this one yesterday:
Stone Ruination and Levitation
Anchor Saison and California Lager
Arcadia Sky High Rye
Bell's Mercury

 

I could have done this locally yesterday:

Lagunitas Brown Shugga
SN Narwahl
Uinta Baba
La Cumbre Elevated
Green Flash Double stout
Santa Fe Imperial Java Stout

 

Talk about taking advantage of the variety a mix a six offers.

That's an excellent lineup.

 

I heard Mercury had a recall.

 

Recalled in Michigan, but thank you if you posted for my benefit.

 

two brothers sidekick
founders breakfast stout
boulevards tank 7
stone sublimely self righteous
great lakes chillwave
orval

 

Last time I hit hit NY state:

Ithica Flower Power
Hop Ranch
Two Hearted
Ommegang Three Philosophers
Southern Tier 2xIPA
Dirt Wolf

 

Hey Reek! You should run over to One Stop Market in Haverhill. They let you do your own six packs. $9.99 including deposit.

 

This week:
Hop Ranch (2)
SN Hoppy Lager (2)
Expedition Stout (2)

 

I'm still sort of wondering what the OP wanted, or what "reasonable based on local availability" means in his or my context. But anyway, I feel the need to chime in (natch). 2 kinds of mix-6 that I can easily get.
Expensive kind: Go to great bottle shop that has over 100 rotating singles in their mix-6 area, but each bottle is individually priced -- you get 5% off the total for your 6. See stuff like 120 Minute, Pt5, etc. but you pay $15-$25 for the 6. Fun for experienced drinkers who are smart to test these as singles before delving into larger purchases, but not a "deal" by any other sense.
Non-Expensive kind: Go to big market with almost 200 options in their mix-6 area, any 6 for a straight price of $9.99 where I live. Perfect for people newer to craft, explore your styles, save a buck here and there. Also good for experienced drinkers, as you want to peruse this every time you're in the store, and see if some higher-ABVs jumped into the rotation for a cheap grab. Of the 200 options 140 of them are swill or extremely dated, or stuff you've had a million times already. But you are like me, and you always look (and you scorn the a-holes who thieve bottles from the shelves and jam them into mix-6's just to scam the store -- and the store is stupid for not designating mix-6-eligible bottles with a sticker, but that's their problem, whereas the a-holes have to live with their consciences).
My latest 9.99 mixer was:
Left Hand Fade To Black
Bell's Amber
Ballast Point Big Eye
AndersonValley Hop Ottin
Uinta Dubhe
Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous

 

Expedition Stout
Green Bullet
Fresh Squeezed
Zombie Dust
Blood orange Gose
Founders Breakfast Stout

 

Founders Breakfast
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Ten Fidy
Sixpoint Hi-Res
Captain Lawrence Seeking Alpha
Victory At Sea (now that it's in 12 ozers)


Though, as soon as they bring back Sucks in 12 ozers, I replace Hi-Res with it... Hi-Res is a great beer, but Sucks blows my mind

 

FBS
DFH90
Nugget Nectar
Backwoods
TenFidy
Palo Santo

 

At Kroger today: Lagunitas IPA, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Paulaner Oktoberfest Marzen, Deschutes Mirror Pond IPA, Sweetwater IPA, Great Lakes Commodore Perry IPA. Had to put the Lagunitas and Sierra Nevada on opposite sides of the sixer. Lagunitas wouldn't behave. I said "Don't make me come in there" but it didn't work.

 

no stores around me do a mix 6 pack that I know of, but a number of them sell single 12oz bottles that you can make your own 6pack (or 1 pack, 2 pack, 3 pack, 4 pack, 5 pack) but they charge per bottle so the 6 pack is usually $15+

 

Earlier this week at Total Wine:
Firestone Union & Double Jack, Green Flash Palate Wrecker, Victory Hop Ranch, Hangar 24 Betty IPA & Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Hoppy Lager.
All excellent beers, except for the Hoppy Lager which I haven't gotten to yet.

 

This is way too broad of a question. So I'm going with a 6er of LOCAL, year round brews.

1. Troegs-Perpetual
2. Victory-Dirt Wolf
3. Yards-Philadelphia Pale Ale
4. Troegs-Troegenator Doublebock
5. Sly Fox-Phoenix Pale Ale
6. Round Guys-Fear of a Brett Planet

 

1. Sierra Nevada Narwhal
2. Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose
3. RoughTail IPA
4. Rochefort 10
5. Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier
6. Boulevard Tank 7
This would pretty much be perfect and very attainable. 6 beers from 6 different breweries, while all being very highly rated by myself as well as on BA.

 

1. Founders-Backwoods Bastard
2. Founder- Dirty Bastard
3. Sierra Nevada- Torpedo
4. Session - Lager
5. Rogue- Dead Guy Ale
6. North Coast - Old Rasputin

 

Snap, I forgot to add Narwhal to my list, possible one of sierra nevada's best.

 

Red's Rye
Short's Cup A Joe
Fin du monde
Dragonmead Final Absolution
Atwater Decadent Dark Chocolate
Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold

 

Can we pick beers that come in 4 packs? I would probably go with some beers that I have not tried yet like.... as a matter of fact, these beers are pretty high up on my beers to try list.

1. Unibroue Don De Dieu

2. Boulevard Dark Truth

3. Maui Coconut Porter

4. Alaskan ESB

5. Goose Island Sofie

6. Grapefruit Sculpin

 

Founders Imperial Stout
Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Ayinger Celebrator
St Bernardus Abt 12
New Holland Dragon's Milk

 

FBS
Ten FIDY
Brooklyn BCS
Peche Mortel
Sam Smith Organic Chocolate Stout
SN Narwhal

I think there is a very distinct theme here

 

My recent mix 6 a couple of days ago:

Sweetwater Happy Ending
Sierra Nevada Narwhal
Prairie Bomb!
Wild Heaven Eschaton
Westbrook IPA
Stillwater Cellar Door

 

Hmm... If my local Kroger suddenly decided to start offering mixed six-packs, I'd probably end up with something like this (pretty much just "a bunch of beers I've seen in the store and considered trying, but haven't gotten to yet.")

1: New Belgium Portage
2: New Belgium Slow Ride
3: Something from Sierra Nevada, probably the Pale Ale since I haven't had one yet
4: Something from Devil's Backbone... there's always at least a few from them available since I live so close to the brewery, but so far I've only gotten around to trying the Vienna Lager.
5: Something from Highland Brewing... I see the Gaelic Ale, Oatmeal Porter and Mocha Stout every time I'm at the store but usually I don't have the money (or sometimes, the fridge space) for a new six-pack at the time so I haven't yet gotten around to any of them
6: Finally, one of whatever other random thing stands out to me at the time! (There are a lot more than six beers on that Kroger's refrigerated shelf-thingies that I want to try, so it's hard to narrow it down. XD)

I'm guessing the list would be a bit different if I made a six-pack at the local beer/wine store--they seem to have a wider (or at least drastically different--I don't think I recall seeing any Miller Lite or similar in there, for example) selection there, and I've seen beer in there from breweries like Bell's and Founders that I see mentioned on this site all the time, but have never seen in the grocery stores around here. Same goes for the imported beers--I noticed a good bit of stuff that I've heard of but just doesn't show up in the grocery stores, like fruit lambics.

 

Picked this one up bout a week ago:
Chimay Blue
Longtrail Limbo IPA
Hop Ranch
Captain's Daughter
GF Hop Head Red
Ballantine IPA

 

yeah i actually loved it!

 

Schlafly T IPA
North Coast Old Rasputin
Boulevard Tank 7
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
Stone IPA
Tallgrass 8 Bit