mixing medium roast and dark roast beans?

I'm new to coffee. I tried experimenting and found that mixing dark roast and medium roast, both arabica, tastes good.
I thought that I could get the acidity of medium roast that I can't get from dark roast, and I can get the thickness of dark roast that I can't get from medium roast.

Is it a strange thing to do with coffee? Will I be ridiculed for it? lol

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addertooth

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Blending beans is an art. Sometime the blended product is better than the parts used to make it. Every once in a while it seems to inherit everything which was bad about the separate beans.

My wife was low on home roasted beans, so she decided to blend a Costa Rica, Colombia and a Brazil roast... and to my surprise it captured the best characteristics of all the players. I knew it was blind luck, and would not suggest it unless you have an excess of roasted beans sitting around.
 

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Blending beans is an art. Sometime the blended product is better than the parts used to make it. Every once in a while it seems to inherit everything which was bad about the separate beans.

My wife was low on home roasted beans, so she decided to blend a Costa Rica, Colombia and a Brazil roast... and to my surprise it captured the best characteristics of all the players. I knew it was blind luck, and would not suggest it unless you have an excess of roasted beans sitting around.
Honestly I have never found it to be that involved... I prefer blends over any single origin I've ever used as most are one-dimensional regardless of what's done with them. A blend can give a unique layered flavor profile/texture that a single origin just can't match all said/done.
 

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When you mix dark roasted and medium-roasted coffee. By doing this, you not only alter the flavor of the end result, but you are able to enjoy a deeper richness than what you could find from either. Mixing roasts will change the acidity, flavor profile, and strength of the coffee.
 
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