Sometimes after a long day of work, we want to crack open a cold one AND indulge in creamy, dreamy ice cream. Instead of having to count calories and choose drinks over dessert, we can satisfy our craving for booze and ice cream with a perfect pint of boozy ice cream.
Boozy ice cream is an ice cream that tastes like your favorite beer, wine, spirit, or cocktail. Here’s the scoop on this spirited sweet frozen treat.
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What Is Boozy Ice Cream?
Boozy ice cream is ice cream that has alcohol in it. While a couple of scoops of spiked ice cream isn’t likely to get you buzzed, this alcoholic ice cream has liquor, beer, or wine in it. Ice cream with alcohol can only be purchased by ice cream lovers 21 and older in the U.S.
Is Boozy Ice Cream a Thing?
Yes, boozy ice cream is a thing. Alcohol can be added to ice cream to enhance its flavor or to mimic the flavor of your favorite classic or contemporary cocktail like margaritas and martinis. It can also be added to sorbets for a burst of flavor.
Hard liquor, wine, beer, and bitters are different types of alcohol that can be added to ice cream and sorbet. Boozy ice cream comes in pints, quarts, and even boozy milkshakes and ice cream cakes.
Adding booze to ice cream and sorbet makes for exciting, intense flavors. Alcohol has a low freezing point, which makes the ice cream softer. Softer ice cream has a delightful mouthfeel, and it is easier to scoop.
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History of Liquor Ice Cream
Liquor ice cream isn’t new. Ice cream soared in popularity during Prohibition. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, it became trendy to add alcohol to desserts like ice cream. It was during the 1930s that Rum Raisin was invented in Sicily. The original flavor was vanilla gelato studded with rum-soaked Málaga raisins.
About a decade ago, boozy ice cream and milkshakes started trending. Melissa Tavss founded Tipsy Scoop in 2013 in New York. Her spiked ice cream went viral on social media, scooping up boozy ice cream fans while inspiring others to open their own ice cream bar-lours.
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How Much Alcohol is in Alcohol-infused Ice Cream?
The amount of alcohol in alcohol-infused ice cream varies. Most brands and flavors have up to 5% alcohol by volume. Because of the alcohol content, boozy ice cream can only be bought and consumed by ice cream lovers who are 21-years-old and older.
In a pint or quart of ice cream, there are only a few tablespoons of booze. Adding too much alcohol would not only make the ice cream taste bad, but it also wouldn’t fully freeze. This amount of alcohol is unlikely to get you drunk, but you can get buzzed.
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Popular Alcohol Ice Cream Flavors
The most popular alcohol ice cream flavors are subjective and depend on what kind of alcohol you enjoy. While classic flavors like Rum Raisin, Irish Cream, and Bourbon Vanilla Bean have been popular for decades, newer creations like Stout, Dark Chocolate Whiskey Salted Caramel, and Strawberry Daiquiri are popular alcohol infused ice cream flavors.
Where Can I Buy Boozy Ice Cream?
Boozy ice cream can be bought in many places, including supermarkets, restaurants, boozy ice cream parlors, and Goldbelly!
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Best Boozy Ice Cream
America’s top ice cream shops, creameries, and dairies are shipping the buzziest boozy ice cream nationwide!
Tipsy Scoop Boozy Ice Cream
Scoop sommelier Melissa Tavss of NYC’s Tipsy Scoop makes artisanal ice cream infused with alcohol like stouts, wines, and cocktail ingredients. Each intoxicating and fun flavor offers a buzz along with your brain freeze.
Tipsy Scoop’s boozy ice cream flavors include:
- Dark Chocolate Whiskey Salted Caramel
- Raspberry Limoncello
- Maple Bacon Bourbon
- Chocolate Stout and Salty Pretzel
- Cookies & Cream Mudslide
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Scoops on Tap
Scoops on Tap has been making small-batch ice cream infused with craft beer since 2015. The Covina, California, ice cream shop uses locally-sourced milk and cream from Holstein cows and locally-brewed craft beers to make traditional and vegan ice cream flavors.
Scoops on Tap is scooping up flavors and packing them in pints and “cans” like:
- Coffee Caramel Crunch Stout
- Cookies & Cream Chocolate Stout
- Lemon IPA
- Salted Caramel Blonde Ale
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Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream’s Rose All Day Boozy Ice Cream
San Francisco’s Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream has churned out many creative flavors with cheeky names since opening in 2008. Founders Jake Godby and Sean Vahey named their ice cream shop after two lead characters from the 1970’s British sitcom “Are You Being Served?”, a nod to their creativity.
The beloved ice cream shop has partnered with California winery Domaine Carneros to create a limited edition Rose All Day ice cream with sparkling Brut Rose. They also make a not-so-secret bourbon ice cream with house-made cornflake cookies called the Secret Breakfast.
This article originally appeared on Goldbelly.com and was syndicated by MediaFeed.org
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