Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Is this the ghost of Bigtwin writing this?

 

I hope not. A great Polka song has told me that "in Heaven there is no beer"

 

I have looked for dogfish head 120min and succeeded, and I have also accidentally stumbled upon a pair Founders KBS bottles...Now I have an extra bottle of each in my fridge and the thought came into my head the other day...why not open them both and mix them! (split with some friends of course)...I've tried blends before of Imperial IPA's and Imperial Stouts at the bar and they were good. So would I be wasting great beer or creating an even more epic one!?

 

Just mix a small amount of both. I tried a black and tan with 120 min. and WWS. I didn't like. Love DFH, but not a huge fan of either. 120 min is best fresh and probably aged for a long time (over 3 years). Probably the same with WWS, haven't had it fresh.

 

It's not unthinkable, you just thought of it

 

just dont

 

OP why would you want to do this? Is this post some sort of humble brag fail? Or does it really seem to you that these two beers would be great mixed together?

IMO sounds like the result will be no improvement to the horrible overhop and overalcohol monstrosity that is 120 and complete destruction of the greatness that is KBS.

 

Is there such thing as an "extra" bottle of KBS?

 

You would be wasting at least one great beer.

 

Do what you want with your beer. You never know what you might end up creating. I'm normally a purist but I mixed Schlafly Pumpkin and Heady Topper together a while back (creating Pumpkin Heady tm) and it actually turned out to be pretty damn good. The only time I'd advise against mixing is if you've never tried the beers separately.

 

I mixed Ghost Face Killah and Dark Lord 10, it was pretty good but really i was pretty blitzed at that point

 

Mixed Creme Brulee with Old Guardian last weekend, was just alright.

 

Well said! Besides how are you to know what the blend will be like if you don't know what the individual ingredients taste like?

I still want to make a Pumking Mocha- one part Pumking, one part Choklat, one part Jahva. I just need to work out the proportions... And figure out how to get Southern Tier to release them at the same time so they are all fresh and the favors work the way I want.

It's a dream that's just not meant to be, I suppose.

 

I mixed DFH Fort and KBS. Delicious

 

Never, ever. I don't want to spend an eternity burning in hell.

 

At the Café Trappisten, across the street from the Westmalle Abbey/Brewery the serve a "Half & Half." Half of their Dubbel mixed with half of their Triple, it's quite good! I think I liked it better than either of the beers by themselves.

 

PtE & Hopslam

PtY & nitro Old Raspy black n tan

Double Bastard & Ruthless rye

Sucks & Celebration

Union Jack & Torpedo

 

Serpents stout and tramp stamp.

 

Half Southern Tier Pumpking and half Left Hand Milk Stout...tastes like a pumpkin milkshake

 

I recently mixed Finch's Fascist Pig (a hoppy red) and Finch's Secret Stache (a vanilla stout). Individually, the beers were just ok and not really something I'd want to buy again. However, the blend of the two was much tastier than the originals.

I couldn't decide if I should call the blend Secret Pig or Fascist Stache. Maybe even Secret Fascist Pig Stache?