So I am sitting here bored at work and I begin thinking, “I wonder what my roomate is up too?”
“He probably has some of our friends over and is drinking right now…”
“I wish I was drinking right now…”
“I want a guiness.”
And then the magic began to happen. The wheels started turning. The guiness would taste so chocolatey good, mmmmm. Chocolate…icecream would be good too. Or a rootbeer float.
And then history was made! What about a beer beer float?! Has that ever been done? I was not aware that was legal. I immediately jotted down the formula and have told nobody.
Then i searched on google, and apparently people have done this before. So what are your opinions?
What kind of icecream would go good? should i go with a vanilla bean or a chocolate or coffee to accent the flavour of the guinness?
Well the ice cream choice is really going to depend on the beer choice. With guiness I would likely go with a caramel ice cream, possibly even a rich chocolate ice cream.
For lighter beers I would go with vanilla. Your choices could really get interesting once you start getting into the specility beers, like the fruit flavoured beers. With those I would try and match the icecream.
[quote]duece wrote:
Four Peaks Brewery in Arizona has a Guinness milk shake. Vanilla ice cream blended with Guinness, great in theory, nasty in reality.[/quote]
If you are from AZ try Oggies. I like it better and the bar is smoke free. It is on Bell north of Frank Lloyds Wright up the 101. I like 4 peaks but the last time I was in there I smelled like a cigarette when I left.
[quote]duece wrote:
Four Peaks Brewery in Arizona has a Guinness milk shake. Vanilla ice cream blended with Guinness, great in theory, nasty in reality.[/quote]
So I tried this last night. I put 2 scoops of natural breyer’s vanilla in a pint of guinness draft.
It is a somewhat weird taste at first but when the ice cream melts into the beer it starts to taste delicious.
I think I prefer the beer straight up. But if i try this again I will definately use a softer serve icecream. Also, I could deffinately see why people recommended a coffee flavored ice cream.
Another thing I heard of is that there are specialty brews like Young’s chocolate stout or a dessert type after dinner microbrew that would work better.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
duece wrote:
Four Peaks Brewery in Arizona has a Guinness milk shake. Vanilla ice cream blended with Guinness, great in theory, nasty in reality.
It seems you guys have figured it out, but for what it’s worth, I mixed up Miller w/ chocolate ice cream years ago (I guess I’m not the only one drunk enough to think of this) and it was pretty good. I don’t think I’d start the night with it though.
I would rather have powdered donuts and a pilsener. That’s a nice combo. I tried Cap’n Crunch with Bud once for breakfast - not recommended. But that was before I discovered good beer.
Ha ha, this is hilarious, not because it’s a dumb post but because I’ve actually tried this myself. A few years ago my roommate and I thought it would be a good idea, but didn’t put a whole lot of thought into the beer and ice cream choice. It was a fun experiment, but the outcome was not very tasty.
This isnt ground breaking. I work at the Yardhouse (yardhouse.com), we have over 100 beers on tap and many locations have upwards of 250(the one in vegas thats opening will have 400+).
We have draft beer floats that we make with Young’s Chocolate Stout and Lindenman’s Framboise(raspberry… sparkling beer… more carbonated than a cider).
They are actually really good(if you have a sweet tooth), but I would never order one.
[quote]Luxberry wrote:
This isnt ground breaking. I work at the Yardhouse (yardhouse.com), we have over 100 beers on tap and many locations have upwards of 250(the one in vegas thats opening will have 400+).
We have draft beer floats that we make with Young’s Chocolate Stout and Lindenman’s Framboise(raspberry… sparkling beer… more carbonated than a cider).
They are actually really good(if you have a sweet tooth), but I would never order one.[/quote]
Thor’s Balls! Why am I only now being made aware of this? I see that there are a few in AZ only a few hours away…Bwahahaha!