Recipe: Beer!

250ml milk
300 ml cream
3 egg yolks
1/3 cup white sugar
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 cup Guinness
1 tsp vanillla essence

Heat up your milk, and meanwhile beat together the eggs, white sugar and vanilla. Add them together in the usual manner and make custard. Leave that to cool and then bring your beer to the boil in another saucepan with the brown sugar. Let it simmer for 10 minutes or so until it's reduced in volume a bit. Let it cool down. Once the beer mixture and custard are both back to room temperature, mix them together and add the cream. Put the mix in the fridge for a few hours, then freeze it in the ice cream maker.

Remarks: Not too bad at all. The Guiness flavour is very subtle, and I'm still undecided as to whether this is a good or bad thing. First impressions of the taste invoke vanilla, but with subtle undertones of something else. The majority of the beer flavour is concentrated in a slightly bitter aftertaste, which I quite liked, but wouldn't want to make any more intense. Overall a damn good ice cream. Put your pre-conceptions to one side and try it, people!