Saturday, October 26, 2013

The ultimate indulgence - beer ice cream

The unique beer ice cream, called Frozen Pints, comes in seven different flavours and the strongest tub has a alcohol level of 3.2 per cent. Peach Lambic is the weakest at 1 per cent, while Pumpkin Ale at 3.2 per cent is the strongest ice cream on offer. Ari Fleischer, founder of Frozen Pints from New York, said how the quirky concept actually started by accident. The 29-year-old said: "We were having a party and a friend brought over an ice cream maker to make homemade ice cream. "But another friend spilled a beer nearby, and I watched it happen and thought - 'this is a great idea!' "I'm really passionate about craft beer, and love ice cream, so I picked it up as a hobby and started experimenting with different flavor combinations. "We start with the beer as it is all about finding the best, most flavourful craft brews - and then build a flavour around them." Because of its alcoholic content, you have to be of legal age to purchase a tub of the ice cream...more

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