Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Hoppy birthday and duet was really good. I'm not sure if it was better or worse than the individuals, but it was tasty.

 

Very creative. Have you tried these?

 

of course! I started mixing about three months ago and these were the best

 

Nice. I would have a really tough time doing the first two. The idea of putting anything, including another world class rarity, into a world class rarity is scary.

 

That's the idea

I have a few others I want to try.

"It's a Trappist!": Westy 12 and Westy 8
Row Row Rochefort: Rochefort 10 and Pliny
Belgian Waffle: CBS (for the maple) and Westy 12

 

I've done a Pliny with. Heady and it enhanced the hoppiness and also multiplies the tropical fruit notes and then I did a Zombie Dust and Pliny the zombie was a little bitter by its self and when combined w Pliny which was also a little bitter now became so smooth and fruity hoppy goodness with no bitter after taste These two combinations were done with 02/11/13 Pliny and Super Fresh HT and 30 day old Zombie

 

Moosehead and lemonade. It makes a pretty decent shandy out of an otherwise not so good beer.

 

Mephistopheles & Rumpkin was surprisingly good.

I hear Uncle Jacob's & Rumpkin is the tits.

 

If I saw you pouring CBS into a glass of Westy 12, I would have a heart attack.

 

Pliny and Heady was a pretty nice mix. Pliny's never tasted so great....

 

A few recent ones that I recall...

BCBVS and Cherry Rye
BCBS '10 and Raspberry Tart

Don't worry, these were done in small quantities, usually down to the bottom of the glass on the first beer with a small refill of the second beer. Both were good mixes, needed to find a good ratio for the BCBS '10 and Raspberry Tart which was about 4:1.

 

Young's Double Chocolate + Well's Banana Bread = Bananas Foster in a glass. Pretty damn good too.

Friend of mine did Dark Lord carbombs for his birthday last year, Dark Lord with a shot of Tactical Nuclear Penguin dropped in. He was at a bar somewhere in NY, they charged him $35 a 'shot'. He drank five. He barely lived.

On my bday I nearly mixed a 2010 Black Ops with BA Old Rasputin XV, but decided to just have each separately.

And finally, Red Hare's Chocolate Porter with a shot of Abita Root Beer was actually really damn good, since the porter was undercarbed.

 

I should clarify I didn't mix the entire bottles just around 4 oz of each. Good times.

 

I accidently mixed Sucks and Nugget Nectar a few nights ago. Nugget Sucker wasn't too bad.

 

Several years back I was at Goose Island Brewpub in Wrigleyville and had a 312 mixed with an IPA - it was tasty. I can't remember if it was a bartender or a random patron that recommended it, but they called it a 3PA. I've done it a few times since then, if I happen to have both of those beers, which isn't too often anymore.

 

Yes but that's just what I mean, you are drinking the final finished product that is, if blended, blended by the brewer for a purpose.

 

Wake n' Moo is delicious: equal parts Terrapin Wake n' Bake and Terrapin Moo Hoo.

 

Had this at the mint in Bethlehem, pa this past year. I was WASTED!

 

BCBS Cherry Rye and BCBS Vanilla

It was good but they were better separate. I didn't want to use too much experimenting though.

 

I know its not a beer but angry orchards cider and guinness..... the angry irishman