It does matter, but don’t take my word, the only thing that matters now is if something doesn’t work you try something else, always leading with the evidence in front - I already explained how this works but I can’t be the only one brewing, and it may not be the answer after all, but we have to keep trying. I don’t know more than everyone else and never will in a thousand years as the most important thing is the collective, everyone working as a team. We are trying to clone beers that were conceived when ‘homebrewing’ +10 years ago using probably lesser sophisticated tools and ingredients than what we have today. Blending is a very unknown topic by most (myself included), but just the fact that the best liquids in this planet; whiskeys, rums, wines, beers, even drinking water are all blends, that is more than sufficient to lead any ideas in that direction with high confidence; primarily when everything else fails.
I just noticed other Julius clone recipe threads have been watched almost 40,000 times which means there are plenty of people following this subject, but unfortunately most of them are sitting waiting for someone to give them the answer so they can start brewing it (shame on those who are doing this intentionally). And affirmative, I will be brewing very soon and posting results but will not share details until I see others jumping in... just like everything else, blending has risks so keep your batches as small as possible.
and yes, this post feels like ‘President Thomas Whitmore’s’ Independence Day speech LOL...