Yesterday,
I saw on The
Revolution Ice Cream Company’s facebook page that they had created a new
ice cream flavor – Cinnamon Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Cigar City’s Hunahpu’s Imperial
Stout.
Just in
case you don’t know about this beer, it is Cigar City’s most sought after beer. They brew it just one day a year, and release
it the second Saturday in March at the brewery.
The Hunahpu’s Day
event has become so popular that they had to start charging $200 per ticket to
keep the crowds under control. The beer
made this list of The
10 Most Traveled For Beers in America and it has a perfect
100 score on Ratebeer.
It gets
its name from the legendary Hun Hunahpu of Mayan mythology. Hunahpu was slain Dark Lords of the
underworld, and his sacrificed body morphed into a cocoa tree, with a cocoa pod
as his head. One of the Dark Lord’s
daughters, Xquic, picked a fruit from the tree and it spat on her, impregnating
her with twin sons. The twins grew up
and defeated the Dark Lords to avenge their father, then transformed into the
sun and the moon.
The
stout is aged on cocoa nibs, ancho and pasilla chiles, cinnamon, and Madagascar
vanilla beans. Unfortunately with it
being so rare and the event being so expensive, I’ve never had the chance to
taste it, but it sounds incredible.
The line
at the ice cream parlor was longer than I’ve ever seen it. It seems that the word spread about their one
batch of the cinnamon flavor – although it wasn’t marked on the board with the
rest of them. Lance and I each got a
scoop of it – plus I had a scoop of their Mocha Mint (coffee ice cream with
Thin Mint cookies), and Lance had a scoop of the What’s Up Nutter Fudger?
(chocolate peanut butter ice cream with chunks of nutter bars).
All our
flavors were delicious. I’m glad we were
able to try the special flavor because the stout made the cinnamon ice cream
even richer. I still wish I could try a
sip of the beer on its own, but the ice cream was great.
If you
want to read more about The Revolution Ice Cream, check
out this post from last September. They
constantly have events and come up with new flavors, so like their facebook page
if you want to stay updated. Coming up
on Sunday, April 12th from 1 – 7pm, they will have food trucks, live
music, a bounce house, and BOGO ice cream all to benefit the Center for Autism
and Related Disabilities (CARD) at USF, so if you’re free that day, go eat
some ice cream for a good cause.
The
Revolution Ice Cream Company is located at 220
W Brandon Blvd #104, Brandon, FL 33511 and is open 12pm – 10pm Monday
through Saturday and 1pm – 9pm on Sunday.
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