Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

Breakfast Stout & BCBS. 50/50

 

Mixed with the mad elf was so much better. Only saw it one weekend there. Ugh, I need to go back again. I've gone to school like 6 times upon graduating last spring lol I can't help myself

 

Summer time it's all about the Shandy and Radler mixes. If I'm feeling kind I'll a decent lager like a Yuengling with 12 oz bottle worth of beer and the rest of the pint filled with Simply Lemonade. If I'm feeling cruel, I will break out the Milwaukee's Best Ice and the Simply Lemonade. Non-craft drinkers don't know the difference, but of course the next morning you find out.

 

When the time is right, put Weyerbacher Tiny on top of first rate vanilla ice cream and you'll be a hero!

 

I've been blending Sculpin Habanero with either regular Sculpin or Grapefruit Sculpin

 

My only mixing I've done with beers so far is dropping a shot of chocolate cherry vodka in various stouts and porters. More hits than misses with that one, especially with chocolate stouts that didn't live up to the name. The vodka put them over the top.

 

If you like cherries, Bells Cherry Stout is a good base beer for experimenting. Go to a brew store and buy some cocoa nibs and some vanilla bean. Pour the cherry stout in a mason jar, add 1 tablespoon of cocoa nibs and 1/2 chopped vanilla bean. Seal it up and 24 hours you will have a much better beer. I suspect pressed with coffee grounds would improve the cherry stout as well. You could also mix it with a chocolate stout and get a chocolate cherry stout.

 

A Southern Tier rep came in to our store to do a demo, and he mixed 1 part creme brulee to 4 parts pumpking, that shit was delicious.

 

• An Irish car bomb!

 

Ever mix heady and sip of sunshine?

 

Last night I was doing a side-by-side of my favorite Ohio IPAs (Head Hunter and White Rajah). I decided to mix the last 2.5-3 oz or so of each. It was phenomenal. The best parts of each came out, and it was a tropical fruit/citrus explosion. I will be doing it again.

 

I'm receiving a couple of each of those this coming weekend, I'll have to try that!

 

Report back and let me know what you thought!

 

Bell's Two Hearted/Black Butte Porter, black n tan. So delicious. Way better than Guiness, and anything.

 

The Bruery Or Xata and Lagunitas High West-ified. Tastes like a s'more.

 

I would mix the two beers you just mentioned!

 

i usually just give the beers i dont want to drink to friends or coworkers who are not as big of a beer snob as i am but i might have to try mixing some of them...

 

I haven't tried it yet, but I think a stone go to, and a hop Hunter mixed would be really good

 

I' let the professionals handle my blending. It's called Boom Sauce.

 

New Belgium La Folie Sour and McKenzie's Black Cherry Cider...perfect for a sunny spring day!