An ice cream review
Apr. 25th, 2006 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraI can't help it, I saw the name and I was intrigued.
Ben & Jerry's Black & Tan
"Cream stout ice cream swirled with chocolate ice cream."
So I bought it and I'm eating it, and here's my opinion.
Stout flavored ice cream is Weird. It's almost... meaty, in flavor. Fortunately Ben & Jerry's takes the swirl thing seriously so you only get the stout by itself if you skim the very top of the pint.
The chocolate isn't some mild little milk chocolate though, it's the "black" portion of the black & tan. Imagine a nice block of semi-sweet, maybe even bittersweet, chocolate. Now add just enough cream to make it the right texture for ice cream. Yeah, it's a really nice semi/bitter chocolate ice cream, it's as close to black as chocolate ice cream can get and it's got the bitter chocolate after bite too.
The stout ice cream by itself would be pretty icky, the chocolate by itself would be edible only in small doses, together they make a pretty decent chocolate ice cream. Together, you can't taste the stout and the chocolate is cut to manageable levels.
The cats incidentally started begging/trying to get into the ice cream as soon as they smelled it. I gave them a little bit of the stout flavored part. The seemed to have liked it but apparently it's way rich for them because they spent a long time licking their whiskers and didn't finish what I gave them. But they seem pretty pleased with themselves for getting some.
Ben & Jerry's Black & Tan
"Cream stout ice cream swirled with chocolate ice cream."
So I bought it and I'm eating it, and here's my opinion.
Stout flavored ice cream is Weird. It's almost... meaty, in flavor. Fortunately Ben & Jerry's takes the swirl thing seriously so you only get the stout by itself if you skim the very top of the pint.
The chocolate isn't some mild little milk chocolate though, it's the "black" portion of the black & tan. Imagine a nice block of semi-sweet, maybe even bittersweet, chocolate. Now add just enough cream to make it the right texture for ice cream. Yeah, it's a really nice semi/bitter chocolate ice cream, it's as close to black as chocolate ice cream can get and it's got the bitter chocolate after bite too.
The stout ice cream by itself would be pretty icky, the chocolate by itself would be edible only in small doses, together they make a pretty decent chocolate ice cream. Together, you can't taste the stout and the chocolate is cut to manageable levels.
The cats incidentally started begging/trying to get into the ice cream as soon as they smelled it. I gave them a little bit of the stout flavored part. The seemed to have liked it but apparently it's way rich for them because they spent a long time licking their whiskers and didn't finish what I gave them. But they seem pretty pleased with themselves for getting some.
