Tuesday Afternoon - not the damned Moody Blues song.

Lunch at Dain's Place. Beer mixing.

So after a warm-up shortbus, we decided we'd try Highland's Gaelic Ale mixed with Flying Dog's Gonzo Porter. The Gaezo, as it came to be known, was disappointing. Highland just doesn't have the cojones/gravitas/flavor to hold its own against the Gonzo. It drank like watered-down Gonzo. In other words, meh - not so good. But that's life in the beer blending biz. Shite or gold, we mix it, we drink it, and we report the results to you.

After that disappointment, Dain suggested Flying Dog's own Kerberos Tripel as a worthy counterpoint to the Gonzo. Yovo and I were in no mood to argue (actually we were in more of a mood to drink), so we agreed. This is a more interesting blend. The Gonzo's bitter chocolate and sweet malty flavor yielded to the almost overpowering alcohol sweetness of the Kerberos Tripel. We both ended up adding more Gonzo to the mix to account for the out-of-balance flavor. It worked well. All things considered, it lacks the hop profile to which I have become accustomed, but makes for a smooth, eminently drinkable, relatively high-gravity mix. Well worth trying, although not serious competition to the original shortbus for magical deliciosity.