Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Other than Black and Tans , how would a Heady and Bcbs work out, an expensive glass of beer or two.

 

add (1) and (2) to speedway stout. drink the whole god damn thing in one sitting.

 

Just drink something palate-numbing like a Hopslam first, then you won't be able to taste the sub-par or past their prime beers. This method can also be used to take care of any spoiled milk you might have lying around.

Seriously though, if you can't drink a beer straight, just cook with it. You can use pretty much any beer to add to a soup, sauté onions, boil brats, or put in a beer batter and it will turn out decent.

 

I have tried blending some oude gueuze (cantillon bio) at about 80% with about 20% of a hoppy pale ale (like HF). The result is really good with a lot of aromatic hops and a balance going toward acidity instead of bitterness.

 

I mean really, if you can use beers that have that "L" word in them in food, a slightly out-of-date IPA should do just fine....

 

The creme brulee mixed with Seadog blueberry wheat ale makes a beer far greater than the sum of it's parts. Not sure what to do w/ Ballast Point Indra Kunindra as it's got a lot of bold flavors already.
I tried Backwoods Bastard with some Expedition Stout and enjoyed the results, but I wouldn't say it was better than the individual beers. Holy City's Pluff Mud porter mixed with their Collision Stout was very tasty, and the brewery approved of this concoction.

 

I like blending IPAs with spicy beers as of late. Billy's Chilies or Ghost Faced Killah work great. I've done this w a few juicy IPAs as well as mango and grapefruit flavored IPAs... does wonders IMO.

 

New Glarus Raspberry Tart and New Glarus Apple Ale in a 50/50 mix is outstanding.

 

Founder Rubaeus float...oh my god.

 

A "Heaven and Hell" is a DFH 120 and WWS mixed. I had one with two aged draft versions of these; best single pint of beer I've ever had. So your combo sounds like something I'm gonna try...

 

I have the ingredients here to do this, lost my drizzle spoon.

 

Mine wasn't separated; neither was this guy's...http://hoptopia.tumblr.com/post/7897548445/beer-remix-dogfish-head-heaven-hell-120-minute-ipa

 

Last time my local had a keg of this we took to mixing with a Flemish Red. Was quite the combo!

 

some mango juice and a Sierra Nevada Torpedo

 

Currently enjoying Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum mixed with Stone IPA...

 

I've heard DFH 90min IPA with DFH festina peche is delicious

 

Take one half cream stout and mix it with Yuengling lager.

 

Bell's Kalamazoo Stout and Atwater's Vanilla Java Porter. That didn't suck...

 

I can't find a picture of it, but my buddy's wife was a bartender at a craft beer bar and she made up something she called jungle fever. I swear one day 95% of the people in their were drinking at least one of them. It was a little bit of crispin cider, son of a peach, lennies summer shandy, and Guinness. Probably a 20/20/30/30 combo. It worked very well together.