Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Hunaphu and uncle Jacobs stout about 80/20...(just a snifter) as awesome as it came out I preferred hunaphu unblended.

 

I've recently done Oude Tart and DuClaw X-1 Imperial Chocolate Rye Porter. Was better than either by itself.

 

All the blending I do takes place in my tummy

 

I blended Magic Hat Wooly with Heart of Darkness just out of what I felt was necessity because I didn't really care for either and had a bottle of each left. Tasted kind of like a nut brown ale, but I didn't really care for the mix either. Other than this small disaster, I don't generally blend beer because I try not to drink anything I don't enjoy the way it was brewed. Just showed me two bad beers mixed amazingly doesn't turn into something good.

 

Fucking remarkable.

 

On Hunaphu day i had half a hunaphu with half a barrel aged cherry imperial sweet stout and it was easily the best thing I've ever consumed in my life.

 

I've done exactly one blend. Sixpoint Resin (because I thought it tasted like graham cracker crust) and Southern Tier Pumking. It wasn't bad.

 

peruvian morning and double crooked tree, yes im drunk

 

I enjoy a blend of 2/3 DIPA to 1/3 Imperial Stout... Usually only if they are so-so beers. Wouldn't ruin a "great" beer by mixing it with something else.

 

had a black n blue once, usually just drink em on their own

 

I've done it a few times...

-Founders breakfast stout & OE. Friend owed me & got a 40, I had a bottle of Founders left from a 6 pack, so added it in after chugging to just under the sticker. Resulting blend basically turns into a generalized Bock flavorwise since the stout dominates.
-Avery Out-of-Bounds Stout & Paulaner Salvator. Interesting.
-Great Divide Hercules DIPA & Steel Reserve. I actually like SR solo, but w/ the huge charge of hops & shift in malt balance it becomes something else entirely.

 

Two blends that worked for us so far:

• Westbrook Mexican Cake + Blushing Monk = like a raspberry flourless chocolate cake beer
• Cascade Blueberry + Beatification = poor man's Blabaer

Although we don't usually start doing stuff like this until we're well into a heavy session, so YMMV.

 

I have also tried this before. I liked these.

sucks + bison chocolate stout
Redchair PA + nitro

And next one im gona try might be Ranger with 1554. Just thought of that, sounds good though.

 

Honestly, doing a black & tan with Victory's Golden Monkey and Storm King is pretty tasty. Of course, midway through you're totally fucked up...but that's the charm of the "Silverback".

 

hell yes and why not! Especially with homebrew when you have 2 almost empty kegs. hmmmm what would that taste like?

 

I think this would be an interesting mix. I may have to add this to my list of blends to try. These are two styles I hadn't thought of blending before.

 

Either of the NG fruit twins (or Serendipity, I'm sure) with some Bristol XXX Warlock (or any other great stout).

 

Once I added a little FBS to an extremely bourbon-forward barrel-aged stout. It was surprising how little FBS it took for the coffee to completely dominate the flavor.

 

I came in here specifically to tout the merits of the Black & Orange. I generally go with an imperial stout rather than an oatmeal stout. Schlafly Pumpkin is very good blended with Old Raspy. It's flat-out grrrrrrreat blended with Breakfast Stout.

 

I considered both of these options; I think I'm gonna ferment out a 5 gallon batch of both separately, blend the components in the ratios I want, and then bottle the remaining non-blended beers as well. The more I think about this, I might do a smaller batch, as I really hate bottling and don't have a kegging system yet!