Blending beers

[Tomtanner]

Hello,

I'm curious to see of anyone here as any experience blending two different beers together. I was at Capitol brewery in Madison wi recently and tried some their aged/blended beers and was intrigued.

I have heard of people brewing two identical recipes and adding different yeast to the two batches then blending them back together in a secondary.

Where can I do some reading in this subject?

 

[Piratwolf]

I did this once because I messed up. I added too many hops to Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde, so I brewed a second, under-hopped batch and blended the two at bottling. It worked well.

As for real blending, i've read and heard about it with the "original" English mild (as opposed to older, sour) ale, and also in regards to partigyle brews. Those may give you a start on your searches.

It may be that some of the HBT-ers who research older styles (Bob and Revvy come to mind) can give you more direct info. Good luck!

 

[Teromous]

Basic Brewing Blending Episode (.mp3)

Some of my favorite beers are blended.

 

[day_trippr]

I do my blending at the faucet. With six faucets I typically have at least a couple of IPAs on tap, one of them is always heavily Citra-fied, the other usually Centennial and Cascade; plus a pale that could use just about anything; a wheat of some kind which will typically have some orange character; then an ESB with UK hops; and finally a stout.

Excepting the stout, I often will pour most of a pint of one and top it off with another. Keeps things interesting, and occasionally it'll send me to Beersmith to write up a recipe idea...

Cheers!

 

[turkeyjerky214]

I've only blended at the faucet. I like my APA I've got on tap with about 10% of my Dunkelweizen. Damn tasty, plus it looks cool in the glass while it's settling.

 

[Homebrewtastic]

I've blended homebrew cider with a homebrewed Belgian single before. It was quite good. This year my homebrew goal is to focus on sour beers, try to brew two batches of sours every 3 months (gonna need a lot of carboys) each one different from the last, some pale some dark some with fruit some that will end up dry hopped etc, and then experiment with blending those.