Body to blend short beer (8)
I believe the answer is:
fuselage
'body' is the definition.
(fuselage is a kind of body)
'blend short beer' is the wordplay.
'blend' becomes 'fuse' ('fuse' can be a synonym of 'blend').
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'beer' becomes 'lager' (lager is a kind of beer).
'lager' with its final letter taken off is 'lage'.
'fuse'+'lage'='FUSELAGE'
'to' is the link.
(Other definitions for fuselage that I've seen before include "part of aircraft" , "Main body of aircraft" , "Body of plane" , "Central body of an aeroplane" , "bodywork" .)