I've really been getting into this lately...@ the tap primarily, but pushing keg to keg has it's draw, too It's like having extra beer
The other night I cracked a bottle of home made black raspberry wine a friend made. It was really really sweet. So I started blending it with some Gose I have on tap.... Life Changing.
Having 2 beers on tap at home, it's hard not to try them mixed. But my favorite creation was my cream corn stout mixed with my pecan wood smoked cascade, pale coffee "stout", Black and Tan style. I don't make crazy beer like that last one much anymore, it was good tho.
I haven't entered any comps in a couple of years, but I'm tempted to enter my Baltic Porter and Smoked Chile Porter Blend in the Grand Cru category
Never had much luck mixing beers, but I did I not have @TimoP brews on hand. That sounds good! I have had some luck mixing scotch bourbon or rye whisky with beer, but it usually ends early, lol.
I've mixed my mango cider with my Berliner Weisse and it was absolutely phenomenal. I have also mixed my strawberry beer with my cherry cider and that too, was the bomb. I do try to mix some every now and then to see if it works or not. Can't hurt. That's the joy of havin beer on tap readily available!!
I make a super nice cherry cider and I mixed it last year with my chocolate oatmeal stout. That one drove everyone nuts, it was delicious. @GormBrewhouse
I often do mix beers, either two of my own, or a commercial with homebrew. The most successful have been sours w/ stouts and browns, IMO. However, I also find tweener blends of AIPAs and English pales can be yummy,
Blended a half keg of Belgian Dubbel with a half keg of cherry lambic and named it "Two Philosophers" Delicious beer
Though this also works for bottled beer its much easier to blend when you have two taps at your disposal! I just have one corny keg at the moment. Blended a kegged Belgian IPA with a 100% Brett rye saison a few months back - the Amarillo/simcoe hops from the BIPA kicked the fruitiness of the Brett into high gear.
I've always enjoyed blending my various single hop IPAs to see how the 2 different hops would interact together in a future beer, but now with 7 beers on tap at all times now, I do a lot more blending than I use to.
