Just curious... does anyone else mix beers? Sometimes I like to mix beers, just for fun. Like just now, I mixed a winter warmer (2/3) with a St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout (1/3) and it is awesome. I do this quite a bit with a variety of beers, including home brew and some of my favorite craft beers. Another good combo is (SA) Oatmeal Sout with Propeller Pale Ale.
In one of my previous lives, I did a lot of travelling and visiting every micro brewery within range whenever possible.
I remember driving down a road in Florida at 80 miles an hour and seeing the word "HOPS" on a sign...Hammered on the brakes and crossed 3 lanes to find this spot...
http://www.hopsonline.com/home/frame_beer.asp
It was pretty good...These guys market their blended beers, check out the bottom of the page.
JQ
black & tan has been around for decades, so why not?
Yeah I've done this on a whim a whole bunch of times; never really been too pleased with the results, but you can't account for taste.
Richard... so either I am a much better blender than you or much less discerning ;-)
It's fairly likely... often times I'd just do it by accident when I pick the wrong tap up in the keezer :P
its pretty common to mix beers. Sometimes if your beer turned out a little more subdued then you might have wanted, you can pump in a gallon of something to give it more taste.
Being a "reformed" scotch drinker, I was generally under the impression that blending is to bring together several source whiskies in such a way as to produce a consistent product. I guess that's similar to what Thomas is describing re: beer.
Another good example are the early porters in England. Back then a young brown beer would be mixed with something older and stronger to give the resulting porter.
Guinness is actually still done that way.
Thought Guinness mixed in sour beer not older beer
Actually both in one - it's old, and sour :P
I tend to mix American IPA and Brown Ale with good results.