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FYI - In the past, I've made a few floats with vanilla ice cream. There's the purple cow (Welches grape juice w/ Vanilla ice cream). Addtionally, if you take Lindeman's Framboise, it makes a delicious desert/beverage.

I made a batch of traditional Fireweed Mead (Finished to SG = 1.000 with a d-47 yeast. I really enjoy it. By itself, it is a drink where the entire bottle is gone. As time goes on, I could only anticipate how it would taste with ice cream.

The other night I tried it with ice cream, it was a bad experiment.
 
Bad in terms of you ate more or bad in terms of you could not force yourself to throw it out due to alcohol abuse?
 
When I drink this mead, it's a very pleasant beverage. It just didn't go with ice cream in the way I thoght it would. When I used it on ice cream, the gentle sweetness of the mead was erased and the dessert tasted of alcohol fumes. I might have to try the experiment with a sweeter mead.
 
I can see why a dry mead wouldn't work well with ice cream. Maybe a sweet mead, or better yet, a sweet mead with a bit of sugar, then reduced? That might be very nice . . .
 
Oh and maybe throw in some pecans and cinnamon to the desert mead glaze....

Is it the weekend yet?!?!
 
my sentiments exactly. Cooking the mead and eliminating some of the alcohol should eliminate some of the offtaste. But you know my grandmother used to love to pour a shot of creme de cocao over her ice cream, so perhaps the alcohol flavor is more a matter of preference. I've had drinks with vodka and milk and personally I rather like the combination.
Another option would be reducing the mead by half, then adding it to milk and cream and turn it into ice cream. I know they make champagne ice cream, so a mead ice cream must be pretty good.
 
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