Mikerphone Brewing (2020)

Has anyone actually tested the abv though or are we taking the sales guys' word for it?

 

If he can package this and have the first mass produced Frozen Beer Gelatin in grocers' freezers....he'll be Mikenmillions

 

If there is lactose involved, would that make it MiLkenmillions?

If the ABV was wrong, would that make it Bilkenmillions?

 

THere is a pandemic costing the economy billions and rather than a cure we invent a way to make beer into ice cream. God bless the USA.

 

I thought I saw something where someone (maybe Mike himself) said that this doesn't work well with high ABV beers, it makes them icy. I can't point to anything specific, though. So while BA One Man Wrecking Machine ice cream sounds good, I wouldn't get my hopes up. If this takes off though, maybe Mike should consider brewing some lower ABV stouts with tons of flavorings/adjuncts specifically for soft serve making.

 

I'm not saying people won't buy this, but the idea of spending top $ on what is sure to be less-good ice cream than the top $ non-beer ice creams available at the grocery/specialty store - JUST because it has 5% ABV - is...so not worth my money.

If it's high ABV ice cream, I actually kind of get it. That's kind of cool to have a scoop of XXX, and get a little buz (or continue it). But to have a scoop of 5% and feel literally nothing, while getting a worse texture seems...silly? I dunno, I guess I just don't get what you get out of it. It won't actually taste like beer - it'll taste like less good beer and/or less-good ice cream.

 

MORE said the same thing today about their ice cream, no loss to ABV.

 

All the servers have to become Creamerones

 

As long as I can get my ice cream served in a baseball helmet like DQ back in the day, I'm good.

 

When I was at Purdue, there was a bar at the edge of campus that apparently did beer-floats, and everyone seemed to love them. They charged a pretty penny, and they'd make it with (as I recall) vanilla or Chocolate ice cream, then whatever beer they had on tap. Which beer you chose changed the price, and it started at $8 for just the ice cream. I seem to recall that for the smaller of 2 sizes of BA coconut nawhal and vanilla ice cream, it was going to be $14-16. I think the larger size made it $21.

In hindsight, I wish that we had tried it, but I had to drive an hour that night after leaving, I suspected my wife would not enjoy it, which meant I'd be the one consuming about 12 oz of 12% beer, after already having had 1 or 2 pours of other beers. Which is no bueno.

Anyway, I've never heard of something like this elsewhere. Just seemed to fit with the theme here, so thought I'd mention it.

 

Is that pronounced like "cicerone" or "chiccharrones"?

 

I made a beer float with Lizard of Koz once. It was amazing how it turned one of the sweetest beers I'd ever had into something insanely bitter. It was no big loss to have wasted a LoK, but to waste the ice cream as well was pretty tragic.

 

Pfft I’ll wait for the Big League Chew beer ice cream

 

Now I just want some Big League Chew. Mem'ries.

 

Is ISLBS special roast - bowline blend anything special? First mikerphone release in Ohio that I have seen.

 

It’s probably my favorite variant. Roasty coffee with some bitter chocolate flavors. No hint of green pepper flavor from the coffee, and the roasty, bitter aspect tapers some of the sweetness found in reg ISLBS.

 

Just a note: If it's in 12oz cans, it's not ISLBS, it's just SLBS. It's not quite as intense as the imperial version, but it's really flavorful and tasty for an 8% stout.

 

Ok. Thanks. Good to know. Still ok since I need a break from the big stouts.