Beer & Ice Cream & Brennan Greene
August 26, 2008 4:08 pm Beer Musings
Photo courtesy of STLToday.com
Adam Jadhav of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has another in a series of articles about beer in St. Louis, with this time talking about the experiment that is the Beer Float. While a story on the virtues of beer and ice cream are well appreciated in these parts, it’s the photo of Schlafly brewer Brennan Greene that made my day. Do you have a favorite beer and ice cream pairing? Mine is Schlafly Pumpkin and Vanilla Ice Cream.
Tags: beer float, ice cream, post-dispatch, schlafly
jerad :
Date: August 26, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
Mackeson XXX and vanilla ice cream.
Derek Bean :
Date: August 26, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
A drink I came up with in 1993–long before the Carbomb craze–uses 1/2 a pint of vanilla ice cream, 1/2 a pint of Guinness and a shot of Bailey’s blended into a shake! (Of course, you can substitute any stout for Guinness.)
Also, last year at a Dierberg’s Cooking School demonstration, their chef paired O’Fallon Pumpkin with a piece of carrot cake and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Excellent combination! Take a bite of the carrot cake, a bite of the ice cream and a sip of the Pumpkin all at once and all of the flavors meld together into one simultaneously!
Brennan Greene :
Date: August 27, 2008 @ 7:17 am
For the record that was Oat Stout (from the tap not the bottle as it seems like) and Vanilla ice cream. I proceded to top up my ice cream glass with more oat for the rest of the afternoon, and man was it good.
Mike Leahy :
Date: August 27, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
I have a regular of youngs double chocolate and oberweis vanilla. Also, dippin dots work well in beer floats.
Kimberly :
Date: August 27, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Like Derek, I too make a Guinness, Baileys, and ice cream shake … but instead of vanilla, try it with Ben & Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide ice cream … holy moly … it’s good!
Adam :
Date: September 10, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Any thoughts on Southern Tier’s Creme Brulee Stout? I used it with coffee ice cream and it was just crazy rich. I don’t know that I could have more than a glass.
Mike :
Date: September 10, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
Honestly, it was just too much. I had some last night and it was just too much for me to stomach.