Recently we had a very warm day here in the north east so I decided to make a beer float and what better way to try this experiment, but with a KBS. I had high hopes for this because I figured I love root beer floats and a fantastic beer like KBS could only make it better, right? Well I was very wrong. Anyone who has made a root beer float knows that the soda can cause the liquid to foam up easily. I guess alcohol makes even more foam because when we added in the vanilla ice cream it created a lot of foam which was annoying, but I scooped it out. After it settled down I tasted the concoction and it was terrible. These two things did not go well together. Maybe with such a flavorful beer the ice cream didn’t mix well who knows. It tasted like drinking burnt with a touch of vanilla flavor and an alcohol burn. I will never combine these two things again. I have heard of mixing Lindeman’s type beers with ice cream, but never tried that.
haha well its not that i had a lot of them, but more so that I wasn't pleased with the 2013 batch that I wanted to try this out, plus if there were successful results I would be inclined to try again in the future.
If I had to guess, it's because stouts are better when they warm up a bit. Ice cream made it cold as frikkin ice. So all you got from the stout side was boozy tastes with maybe some dominant notes like coffee I could be blowin words out my butt though idk
I've done this with several fruity sours and its wonderful. Never tried it with a stout though. Had a 1/4 barrel of raspberry framboise that made about 20 beer floats for a party and everyone seemed to love it.
Pour enough beer to fill 1/3 of the glass and stir it vigorously with a spoon. This will stir out the carbonation enough for you to add the ice cream. Once the ice cream is in the glass, top with more beer to form the familiar icy foam present in a good float. I like to add a splash of beer on top of each scoop and fill the remaining space in the glass once all of the ice cream has been added. This works with root beer or any carbonated beverage.
