Ice cream with an alcohol content of 5% – sold to adults only – is making some inroads here in Bangkok. The stuff is great! Amaltery brand even has a website, although it still seems to be under construction. But today in The Emporium shopping center, the wife and I shared a triple scoop bowl: margarita (tequila and triple sec), Chewy Choc Orange (gin and orange curacao) and B-52 (brandy, Bailey’s and Kahlua). The stuff is really good. The stand had only about a dozen flavors on offer, but their brochure that I picked up lists 38 flavors. They must rotate them out.
I’m not sure if it is the same kind of stuff (the website says that it’s under renovation so I can’t check) but at my company’s last Christmas party we had some sort of alcoholic ice cream. It seemed more like sherbet and I think it had champagne in it, but it was quite delicious.
Yes, some of the ice creams, like the Margarita and the Medori, are sherbets or sorbets. But others like the B-52 and the Sex on the Beach are regular ice cream.
I have had the perennial classic Rum & Raisins with actual rum. Yummm. Not so crazy about the non-alcoholic version. Never quite understood how it became popular.
A specialty Kosher ice cream joint nearby makes a beer ice cream. Unlike other beer ice cream I’ve had in the past, which had, say, a hint of Guinness, this tastes like a can of Coors in ice cream form. It’s really weird and oddly compelling. I have no idea if there is actual alcohol content or just better living through chemistry.
Not much. It’s very soft, softer than regular ice cream, but they still use a scoop to, um, scoop it out. Very tasty indeed. I can’t say I feel much effect from it, but the wife, who is a cheap drunk, does feel a little warm in the tummy whenever we share a three-scoop bowl. (Three scoops are 165 baht, which works out to about US$4.85.)
Well, here in Austin, the most popular ice cream chain is Amy’s, and they always have 2 alcohol flavors on their menu every day. They’ve been doing that for 20+ years.
It doesn’t appeal to me, but I know people who LOVE their Guinness ice cream.