tomthirtysix
Wishing I was as cool as Phil
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Well, I had a bottle of this sitting in the back of the fridge. And, due to an oversight on my part, I was out of 'regular' beer. The wife was out, I was watching the son, so I couldn't run out and restock. So... what better time than the present to open it up? I'm no beer collector like some of the regulars in this forum. I just picked it up because it was there.
So, I fill my glass. REAL dark. By the time I put the bottle down, and the glass is starting to settle, it looks like I poured myself a glass of Coke. Tasted good enough, I guess, but it's not my normal cup of tea. Like I said before, I'm no beer whore, so don't ask me to pick out nuances and whatnot. I can hardly do that with my cigars.
I sit down with my son to watch The Grinch on TiVO, and he asks for some ice cream. I head to the freezer, dish him out a bowl, and realize there's only about a scoop left after he gets his. That's when the lightbulb hits...
Yup... Ice cream float time. I have about a half a glass of beer left, one scoop of Eggnog Ice Cream. My CP brethren will surely appreciate this. Right??
I let it sit for a minute for the 'flavors to marry' and go to work. Hmmmm.... nothing really going on here... tastes just like it did before, except foamier. So, I grab my spoon, mix it together a little more and...
Not disgusting. There is a definite mixing of the flavors. But, being a pitch black IPA, it's not what you would expect when someone says they mixed beer and ice cream. However, the folks at CP won't appreciate this unless I really dig in...
So, I went in with my spoon to get a good mix of the ice cream and beer. Again, it wasn't terrible. It tastes just like I mixed the beer with some egg nog. Yeah, it may sound horrible, but it was not.
Would I do it again? Probably not. But, if I owned a bar in Manhattan, without a doubt I could get $20 a pop for this festive holiday treat served in some fancy ass glass.
Hope you enjoyed the review as much as I enjoyed doing it.
So, I fill my glass. REAL dark. By the time I put the bottle down, and the glass is starting to settle, it looks like I poured myself a glass of Coke. Tasted good enough, I guess, but it's not my normal cup of tea. Like I said before, I'm no beer whore, so don't ask me to pick out nuances and whatnot. I can hardly do that with my cigars.
I sit down with my son to watch The Grinch on TiVO, and he asks for some ice cream. I head to the freezer, dish him out a bowl, and realize there's only about a scoop left after he gets his. That's when the lightbulb hits...
Yup... Ice cream float time. I have about a half a glass of beer left, one scoop of Eggnog Ice Cream. My CP brethren will surely appreciate this. Right??
I let it sit for a minute for the 'flavors to marry' and go to work. Hmmmm.... nothing really going on here... tastes just like it did before, except foamier. So, I grab my spoon, mix it together a little more and...
Not disgusting. There is a definite mixing of the flavors. But, being a pitch black IPA, it's not what you would expect when someone says they mixed beer and ice cream. However, the folks at CP won't appreciate this unless I really dig in...
So, I went in with my spoon to get a good mix of the ice cream and beer. Again, it wasn't terrible. It tastes just like I mixed the beer with some egg nog. Yeah, it may sound horrible, but it was not.
Would I do it again? Probably not. But, if I owned a bar in Manhattan, without a doubt I could get $20 a pop for this festive holiday treat served in some fancy ass glass.
Hope you enjoyed the review as much as I enjoyed doing it.
