Best homemade blend?

[Ant]

What do you consider the best blend of single malts you've ever concocted? Please exclude any single malt blends that were already blended when you opened the bottle. I'm talking about single malts you've opened and blended yourself.

I just blended Bruichladdich Peat with Ardbeg Still Young to get a really interesting dram.

What are yours?

[Grant M]

I often blend some sherried malt with some heavilly peated stuff. Last one i tried was Ardbeg 10 and Glenfarclas 15

[Alexppp]

There was a similar thread in the last few months - inspired by suggestions there I blended sherry & peat too, with Aberlour 10 and Laphroaig 10. It was ok - tasted a bit weird actually!

[nitram]

This isn't exactly what you asked, but it isn't exactly what you excluded either!
I've been buying the affordable whiskys from "101 whiskys to try before you die"? and having tried all those available in the supermarkets (in my price range) I made my first foray onto The Whisky Exchange website. I bought three untried whiskys: Benraich Curiositas, Cutty Sark and Cameron Brig single grain along with a bottle of Ardbeg 10. I was a little worried about buying online just because of the hassle with delivery etc. but I have to say it couldn't have been smoother and I will use TWE again.
Anyhoo, the Cameron Brig single grain didn't exactly tantalise the taste buds and I felt as if it gave me an instant headache - I'm sure that's not actually possible, but I decided it would be used for blending after that.
Since then I have blended (50/50 each time) it with;

Tesco Islay single malt (which I am sure is Caol Ila)
Laphroaig 10
Macallan 10 sherry oak

The results don't necessarily make any sense. The Tesco Islay single malt was obliterated and what I ended up with tasted like a bog-standard blend; it was certainly drinkable but nothing about it stood out and I wouldn't have had a clue what it was or where it was from in a blind tasting. The Laphroaig 10 on the other hand, worked really well. If you are familiar with Laphroaig, I am sure that you would have recognised it as such. It had a lovely smooth peaty warmth to it and to be honest didn't taste a world away from the stuff straight out of the Laphroaig bottle. I am currently drinking the Cameron Brig/ Macallan 10 sherry oak blend and the flavour of the Macallan comes through very well in this. I doubt that I'd be able to recognise it as Macallan, but you would certainly be able to have a good stab at it.

And finally to answer your original question, I also recently blended some Ardbeg 10 with Laphroaig 10 and the resultant Ardphroaig was pretty much exactly what you would expect.

PS I knew that Cardhu bottle would come in handy one day!

[Quaich1]

I tried blending Caperdonach Provenance over 11 years with Aberlour 10 years. It turned out to be a real nice dram.

[chrisg]

I blended together the remains of a bottle of Highland Park 12 and Caol ila 12 at the weekend with what i thought was a good result but i have to say i had been drinking at the time so my judgement may have been a little off

[Ant]

Nice combos so far, thanks everyone.

I am curious though, has anyone created a blend that was better than all of the individual malts involved? As I mentioned in the beginning of this thread, I blended Peat with Still Young. But, while I thought the blend was better than drinking Peat by itself, I feel that Still Young by itself was superior to the blend (and Peat, for my tastes anyway).

I guess the hidden motive behind this thread was to see if anyone came up with something truly great (and affordable!) by mixing fairly well known single malts.

[Cuba]

I found adding some peated whisky such as Laphroaig 10 to some Dalmore 15 made the Dalmore a lot more drinkable for me.