Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

I've done a black 'n tan with Dogfish Head WWS and 120, which was fun. Tasted pretty good, though you don't have to drink a lot before _everything_ tastes good.

 

I saw these over at The Bruery Provisions yesterday.... Evil Twin Yin and Evil Twin Yang! Yin is an imperial stout and Yang is an Imperial IPA. These beers are great alone, but they are even better when blended together, just as the brewer intended.

 

Last night, I was really tempted to mix KBS with an Aecht Schlenkerla Marzen -- but I just love both of those beers too much by themselves to risk it.

 

I enjoy doing Obovoid and Maharaja. Do it in any proportion you like, but it's fantastic. It's basically Boulder in a glass. Mmmmm.

 

Yeah Dogfish Alehouse employees are all about mixing the beers there. Fort + Festina is surprisingly actually not bad, but I'm not lining up to drink it either. But anyway, I was tasting a couple beers with the same tasting cup one day when I made an accidental discovery, Sierra Nevada Life and Limb + Founders Dirty Bastard seemed to mix together amazingly well, it seemed to bring out flavors that were not in either beer to begin with. The Dirty Bastard keg was switched out right after I tried this, so I only had the one taste. I have always wanted to try this mix again to find out though, it seemed much better than either of the beers individually.

 

Great Lakes Blackout Stout and Great Lakes Christmas Ale is one of my favorite combos.. it's such a treat in the winter time. I also like blending stouts with pumpkin ales.

 

I am nearing the end of a case of Summerfest and thought I need to pick up some Sierra Nevada Stout and make a black and tan. I think those two would do well together.

 

Youngs Double Choc and Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin
A bar around here has next to nothing for craft but make Harpoon IPA and Guiness- tasty black and tan.

 

Shipyard's blue fin stout with their pumpkinhead. Shipyard recommends it, and I've tried it, pretty good as far as I know.

 

, that sounds spectacular, I'm gonna have to try that.

 

I don't know about the KBS, but a Schlenkerla/Big Stout blend is just excellent, I do it all the time, lately with Southrn Tier's 2X Stout. It's a great blend with its own merits and satisfying for when you want a top notch smoked porter and can't get one.

 

I think that Wake and Bake is too bitter and Moo Hoo is too sweet, but together... it's a match made in heaven.

I've got whichever SN "hemisphere" came out last and plan on mixing it with the other one whenever it comes out again to have a SN WORLD.

For you NC peeps... and/or fans of OHB...

Black Death (Black Raven and Death by Hops)
Irish Devils (Irish Walker and Seven Devils)

Table Rock and Stick stout goes well together, but it doesn't have a good name.



Westy 12 and corona light FTW!

 

I like Victory Golden Monkey and Storm King 50/50 blend. The hops and the Belgium sweetness mild out and it tastes delicious.

 

That's why you reserve around 3 to 4 oz of both beers to experiment after sipping them separately!

 

Heavy Dog Peg. that's about as phallic as I could get out of the name.

you could call it "Whose in My Mouth"

 

A buddy recommended this: 50/50- Wake n Bake and Moo Hoo; it is as close to Surly Four as I have had since I ran out of Surly Four.

 

Also, Surly Darkness and Surly Smoke (At least 50% Darkness) was absolutely stellar! (My friend had a growler of Darkness from a secret source at a local watering hole. I would have never done this with a bottle, but a growler split four ways made it easy to do. Plus, the Smoke was an absolute smoke bomb and needed something.)

 

Anyone ever mix a DFH 120 and a 90? I think a DFH 105 would be perfect. I'm going to have to try it I think.

 

Double Black and Blushing Monk.

I usually leave the blending to the pros though.