Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Blending DFH 60 with their 90 is absolutely scrumptious. 50/50 blend. Better than their DFH 75.

 

This is probably something along the lines of a 99:1 blend, but I used to like to drink [insert relatively cheap, uncomplex imperial stout here - for me it was Widmer KGB] in the residual remains of [insert any DIPA here].

 

Same thing I post every time this thread comes up:

50/50 Wake-n-Bake and Hop Stoopid

 

From the menu at my favorite local beer bar, Hopjacks, in PCola and Mobile.I haven't actually tried any of them though. I'm too much of a purist.

Hop Blends

Black & Blue Sweetwater Blue layered w/ Guinness 5¼
Black & Tan Yuengling layered w/ Guinness 5¼
‘Black Magic’ Magic Hat #9 layered w/ Guinness 5½
Black Velvet Champagne layered w/ Guinness 6
Blacksmith Smithwicks layered w/ Guinness 5½
‘BLUE-P-A’ Sweetwater Blue & Sweetwater IPA Stout 4
’69 Minute’ Dogfish 60 Minute & Dogfish 90 Minute 5¼
Hummingbird Strongbow layered w/ Framboise 5¾
Nuts & Berries Southern Pecan layered w/ Framboise 6¾
‘Purple Gator’ Abita Purple Haze w/ Abita Andygator 4¾
Snakebite Cider layered w/ Guinness
w/ Strongbow 5 — w/ any Woodchuck 5¾ — w/ Fox Barrel or Crispin 6
‘Snozzberry’ Framboise layered w/ Rogue Chocolate Stout 6½
‘Warm Apple Pie’ Strongbow w/ a small shot of
w/ Cinnamon Schnapps 5½ — w/ Goldschlager 6¾
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Hop Bombs

‘Bayou Bomb’ ½ Abita Root Beer & a shot of Jagermeister 6¼
‘Georgia Peach’ ½ S.Water Georgian Brown w/ shot of Peach 6¼
‘Grape Drink’ ½ PBR w/ shot of Grape Vodka ‘“ AMAZING!! 6
‘Little Cream Soda’ ½ Smithwicks w/ shot of Vanilla Vodka 7
‘Magic Carpet Ride’ ½ Magic Hat #9 w/ shot of Tuaca Liqueur 7
‘Pushing Daisies’ ½ Rogue Dead Guy Ale w/ shot of Citrus Vodka 7
‘Rootbeer Bomb’ ½ Abita Root Beer w/ shot of Hazzlenut & Vanilla Vodka 6¼
‘SAKE BOMB’ ½ Kirin Ichiban w/ a shot of Sake 4½
‘Sky Bomb’ Captain & Coke w/ shot of Vanilla Vodka & Baileys 6½
‘Toucan Sam’ ½ Abita Jockamo w/ shot of Captain Morgan’s Lime Bite (sugar rim) 7

 

I enjoy doing 50/50 of Loose Cannon and Peg Leg. This is my year-round version of Black Cannon. Have never tried it with Snake Dog, but now I will have to! Keeping it MD-style. Cheers!

 

I did a Black n' Thrash for St. Patrick's Day. Jester King Black Metal and Thrash Metal, in a 1:2 ratio.

 

The 50/50 blend of terrapin wake n bake and moo hoo is a classic combination. The wake n moo.

 

I'm usually a purist and don't blend, but I drank a ton of Duhops (Duet and Pure Hoppiness) my last visit to Alpine. They actually have a list of suggested blends in their pub.

 

I've always wondered if BCBS + New Glarus Raspberry Tart or Beligian Red in a 10:1 or so ratio wouldn't be a better beer than Bramble...

 

I think the last blend I had was a black & blue version that used Guinness and Blue Moon. I don't hate either beer (uh oh) so I enjoyed the flavor combination. Think that's the only blend I've ever had

 

I blend all of the time ... DIPAs with malty amber / red ales, massive stouts with brown ales, barleywines with pale ales, triples with witbiers. Lots of fun and it is a great way to cut some of the stronger beers that would normally destroy my palate.

 

Hello. I generally don't like to blend anything with drinks. Single malt neat, tequila neat, beer, I drink loose leaf steeped tea with no sugar, honey, cream, etc. so I am not a fan of mixing anything. The Dogfish 75 literally came into existence because people (and the brewers) would blend 60 and 90. The cask version is fantastic.

Saint Arnold in Houston created a new beer called Sailing Santa because patrons in their brewery tours were always blending their Christmas Ale and Elissa IPA, so they decided to bottle it. If I am not mistaken, this first batch was literally a blend of the two previously brewed beers. Next batch will actually be brewed from scratch by combining the recipes.

The ones I mentioned are good, but blending beers rarely works in my experience. However as I mentioned above, I generally don't like to mix anything.

 

I do enjoy Southern Tier Choklat & Raspberry Tart (75/25) quite a lot.

 

Go to leinenkugel's web site and they'll tell you how to mix theres. Not saying it makes it better.

 

Anchor Liberty Ale and Budweiser. I call it the All-American.

 

I used to just make Newcastle and Ciders.
Now I am a purist and wont mix anything.

Cheers!

 

Never thought to blend two beers together or if it would even taste good. Definintly going to try some combinations now though.

 

One of the old timers at Bell's frequently orders a Lagerslam, Bell's Lager Beer topped with Hopslam. I love the combination of a clean, smooth pils or similar lager and an aggressively hopped ale.