Blending Beers: Share Your Experiments

About 1/4 Founders Rubaeus with the rest being Great Divide Yeti is awesome.

 

Sure! My fave this time of year is a heavily spiced pumpkin ale 1:1 with an imperial stout.

 

Here and there. I had a friend who prefers ciders buy one at a bar but it was way too sweet for her. I took some of my Stone IPA and blended in a few ounces. Actually tasted really good after that. I've done a few things that have worked once in awhile. I've also experimented adding cold pressed coffee to non-coffee stouts.

 

I've still never blended any beer. Someday I'm going to try something.

 

Woah, that's a beastly mix!

 

Bruocsella Grand Cru and 120, I think we settled on 70/30.

 

How about this 24 page thread on the subject?
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/blending-beers-share-your-experiments.16392/

 

Blending a dark and a pale lager is done pretty often in czech pubs. It's called řezané pivo and can be pretty awesome, if both beers are good.

 

Alright, I know this sounds crazy, but I had a buddy tell me about one from this past weekend. He was at a tasting that had Derivation 2 and Vanilla Rye in the lineup. They all agreed that, while both good, the D2 needed more vanilla and heat while the VR was still a little hot and very strong in the vanilla area. BOOM. They mixed them and he said it was the star of the tasting.

 

Ratios please. This intrigues me.

 

I think I did about 70/30 4Beans/Pumking.

 

Recently we blended The Bruery's Or Xata with FFF's Backmasking. It surprised the hell out of all of us, and seemed to be a perfect balance of everything.

 

Once had a Founder's rep mix KBS (75%) and Rubaeus (25%)...it was delicious!
Fat Head's Head Hunter and gin makes an amazeballs martini.

 

I'm sure that many of you have tried a black and tan or maybe experimented with mixing two different beers before. I once had an Irishman tell me that doing so is sacrilege. I'm sure others out there feel the same way, and I tend to agree. A good beer should be, in itself, a finished product.

Recently, due mostly to my kids school fees, I found myself rather short on funds. This greatly effected my beer budget. I found myself very torn between the thought of buying less of the quality beer that I usually purchase, and risk running out before payday, and buying cheaper beer that I won't enjoy as much. Envisioning my beer fridge with empty shelves was too overwhelming and I opted for the second option. I'm glad that I did.

I ended up bring home a 30 pk of PBR and a 12 pk of Sierra Nevada's Hop Hunter. I like Hop Hunter and thought that I could enjoy one of those in between the mostly tasteless PBR.

I get home and crack a Hop Hunter and enjoy it thoroughly. I've kept a steady supply of it in the fridge all summer to supplement the more expensive options I purchase. Hop Hunter, in my opinion, is a one trick pony- just a big hop bomb without much of a backbone to speak of, enjoyable none the less. Next I crack a can of PBR. There is a major drop off , and I wondered how I was going to get through thirty of them. Then the thought occurred to me to try mixing the two. I poured half a bottle of HH into a 20 oz glass and I dumped a full can of PBR on top of that. What this formed was a pretty damn tasty IPL. The best part was I was only spending $0.74 per 12oz.

Payday came eventually and I resupplied with some Bell's Best Brown and Lagunitas Sucks, but I still found myself craving the IPL mixture that I put together in the week prior.

 

Bourbon Country Stout and Bourbon Country Barleywine. I got the idea from @dar482 after he posted one of his video reviews. One of the most amazing "beers" I've never tasted.

 

Hey BAers. I was just browsing my Twitter feed and saw someone posted a photo of ST’s Pumking blended with Crème Brulee. Anyone tried this? Thoughts? Honestly, it sounds pretty damn delicious, but I’ve said that before about other beers…

Thanks!

 

I think I just threw up a little.

 

I'm going to Southern Tier in 2 weeks I will ask the people there & report back

 

So...I should take that as a 'no,' I assume?

 

First off: You lucky guy.

Secondly: Thanks. I'm curious as to their response.