The Muskoxen

Last weekend I had the privilege of trying Beer Ice Cream, and Bacon Ice Cream. Dream no more! These two crown jewels of hypothetical manly desserts actually exist! Ironically, you have to go to notoriously-gay Rehoboth Beach, Delaware to get them (hold your jokes. I was there with my wife. Gay people keep the beach clean).

Anyway, here are the reviews:

Bacon Ice Cream |  80% Awesomeness (we still need a rating system!)

Bacon Ice Cream is basically French Vanilla with bacon bits in it. They use real bacon as opposed to those weird, fake, soy-based Bacos things. That's definitely commendable, but because the bacon is mixed in with the ice cream when the batch is made (it's not like a Blizzard where they mix the toppings and the ice cream after you order) the bacon is more chewy than crunchy. That's not bad, but some crunchy bacon as a topper might have taken this up several points.

On the bright side, because it's not like a Blizzard, there is a some mingling of flavors which makes for a little of the sweet/salty flavor combination, but it's not as pronounced as you might hope or expect.

Beer Ice Cream | 67% Awesomeness

When we ordered the Beer Ice Cream the girl that worked there said, "'ave you 'ad eet before? Eet ees deezgusting." (She had a French accent). Val agreed with her, and actually made a face after trying it. It wasn't great, but it did have some merit.

Basically, the "beer" taste, to the degree that it exists, is closest to a Natty Ice flavor. Part of the problem is that one of the strongest "beer" flavors is this sort of sour flavor that straddles the fence between alcohol, skunky beer, and freezerburn (it's a three-way fence). That being said, there is a definite beer taste to it, but it turns out that sweet, frozen, cream is a poor conveyance for beer. Beer flavors (besides the aforementioned skunky, sour flavor) apparently get covered up by sweet flavors.

So, in conclusion, if I was rating these solely based on the greatness of the ideas, they would both get 100% ratings. Sadly, the actual product didn't live up to the idea in either case. Still, I have to recommend that everyone try these, if only to say that they have. And, to be fair to the place (I've forgotten the name of the stand), the mint chocolate chip that Val got was top-notch.