Meantime brewery have brought out some beer flavoured ice creams using coffee porter, chocolate beer and raspberry wheat beer. I suspect it doesn't taste much different to normal ice cream but I'll have to give it a go. I'm heading to the Greenwich Beer and Jazz festival next month so maybe I'll visit the Meantime pub again whilst I'm in the area.
Wells and Young's are bringing out a tall cask beer font to compete with the one Greene King launched recently.
It looks like cask beer is going to be more eye catching in future but I hope designer fonts don't discourage pubs from stocking guest beers.
And one which will I'm sure keep many CAMRA members happy is the news that Thwaites are bringing out a bottle conditioned version of the Nutty Black mild.
There's also an article about the new bottling line my old boss Steve Brooks has had installed at but I suspect I would bore even my fellow beer nerds if I started wittering on about that.
I've made some great beer ice creams and I've got plans for more. I bet the London Porter would make a great ice cream! I've been in the Greenwich Union a couple of times in the past few weeks - had a super pint of cask LPA.
ReplyDeleteIs beer ice cream beery or just...er...ice creamy?
ReplyDeleteGood to hear Meantime have a cask beer, I'll have to try that.
It does retain some of the beer character, yes. It's really quite good. Avoid too many hops though as they add a strange tangy astringency that has no place in ice cream!
ReplyDeleteBrewdog's RipTide has given excellent ice cream!