Alcohol Gets Even Cooler
As I sit, I can hear the local ice-cream van rolling down the street singing its merry little tune. I sometime wish that ice cream vans would sell beer on hot days (to over eighteens of course), and it looks like this could become a reality.Beer lovers across the world will either rejoice or moan about the latest summer treat, because a restaurant in the US has been giving the go-ahead to sell frozen beer-cicles.
The pop-cicle even adults will love was created from what could have been a horrific accident, when Chef Frank Morales of the Rustico Restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia accidentally froze his cherry-flavoured beer in the freezer, but luckily for him, he realised it made a tasty treat.
Radley Balko reported on his blog Hit and Run that Virginia has a law stating the beverage must be “served in its original container or immediately after pouring”.
However, now that the restaurant can legally sell the “hopsicle”, the state is awaiting confirmation of the alcoholic ice-lolly’s legal status.
Mr Balko says he tried the ‘cherry-flavoured’ frozen treat with a Belgian kriek base and was very impressed.
If you close your eyes you can almost see the carnage as the ice-cream van sells a load of beer flavoured ice lolly’s to a bunch of kids by mistake.
