fluketamer
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im guilty of blending beers
if i have a beer that i didint hop enough and one thats over hopped ill blend them in the glass. but i feel its wrong and its not the beers fault its mine for using the wrong types or amounts ingredients .
a beer with off flavors can be diluted out when blended but then i feel im really doing injustice to the better beer. especially the diluter and not the dilutee. this should prolly be in the drunken rambling thread.
and i almost never dilute a beer i consider really good.
i even find myself diluting green beers with well conditioned beers to stretch out the good ones and make the keg last longer. (very counter productive) i never said im smart.
my frugality prevents me from dumping slightly off beers so thats part of it.
lots of threads on beer blending and lots of good highly intentional blends like shandys, snakebites, etc.
i love schofferhofer grapefruit and i found a good recipe i am dying to make cause you can just make a wheat beer and then keg it 50/50 with "simply grapefruit" juice.
i like the idea of making a 5 gallon batch and spiltting of a small portion in a mini keg with the grapefruit juice cause if its no good you still have untainted wheat beer.
i notice that the more beers i have on tap at any one time the more blending i do.
even though the title of the thread says blasphemy, im not judging anyone.
just wondering, how many of you are beer blenders like me?
if i have a beer that i didint hop enough and one thats over hopped ill blend them in the glass. but i feel its wrong and its not the beers fault its mine for using the wrong types or amounts ingredients .
a beer with off flavors can be diluted out when blended but then i feel im really doing injustice to the better beer. especially the diluter and not the dilutee. this should prolly be in the drunken rambling thread.
and i almost never dilute a beer i consider really good.
i even find myself diluting green beers with well conditioned beers to stretch out the good ones and make the keg last longer. (very counter productive) i never said im smart.
my frugality prevents me from dumping slightly off beers so thats part of it.
lots of threads on beer blending and lots of good highly intentional blends like shandys, snakebites, etc.
i love schofferhofer grapefruit and i found a good recipe i am dying to make cause you can just make a wheat beer and then keg it 50/50 with "simply grapefruit" juice.
i like the idea of making a 5 gallon batch and spiltting of a small portion in a mini keg with the grapefruit juice cause if its no good you still have untainted wheat beer.
i notice that the more beers i have on tap at any one time the more blending i do.
even though the title of the thread says blasphemy, im not judging anyone.
just wondering, how many of you are beer blenders like me?