by Beth Keating
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DisneyBizJournal.com
May 31, 2024
We are just past Memorial Day, and, like many families across the U.S., you may have already been breaking out the grill, the s’mores, and the summer treats. Maybe you’ve also enjoyed two summer favs: ice cream, and cold beer.
At Disney Springs’ Salt & Straw location, they’ve managed to combine both of those things as part of this month’s specialty flavors. The June “Brewers Series” is admittedly unique, and even somewhat difficult to combine, culinarily and physically speaking. It includes five new flavors infused with beer notes, ranging from tones of stouts, porters, and lagers to IPAs.
Salt & Straw arrived in Disney Springs in the spring of 2022. While it is a “chain” of sorts, with more than 40 locations across the country (including Downtown Disney at Disneyland, and Disney Springs at Disney World), it is actually a successful family-run small business, started by Kim Malek and her cousin, Tyler. Salt & Straw offers hand-made small batch ice creams “created in collaboration with chefs, farmers, food movements, social causes and more.” That’s really what Salt & Straw is known for: unique but hand-made ice creams with quality, and predominantly local, ingredients.
While there is a more familiar “classics” menu at each location, they do offer 36 different flavors across their shops. Yes, you can get vanilla, but why would you when there are so many unbelievable one-of-a-kind options like Panther Coffee Chocolate Tres Leches or honey lavender on menu? Salt & Straw is perhaps more widely known for their changing monthly selections. Each month features inventive, limited-time themed flavors. (October often has real “bug” ingredients during the Halloween “Scoops & Skulls” offerings!)
Back to June, though. Salt & Straw says of their new series, “We're tapping five of the most amazing microbrewers in America for one incredible flight of delicious beer-based ice creams. From Seattle to Portland to Santa Rosa—and Miami to LA—these brewers keep their hometowns double-and triple-hopping with the best beers you've ever tasted.”
Among the five flavors in the Brewers Series are:
• Breakside Chocolate Barrel-Aged Stout
Salt & Straw’s 12th collaboration with Ben Edmunds at Portland's Breakside, is made with Portland's Breakside Barrel-Aged Stout. Salt & Straw says, “We're steeping cocoa nibs in it for a couple days, then coating the nibs in chocolate, adding the leftover beer with cream and sugar, and swirling in rich tres leches cake with one of the leches replaced with, you guessed it, more stout. The chocolate malty taste gives you this triple intensity.”
• La Tropical's La Original Lager w/ Guava
This treat is made with Miami's La Tropical La Original Lager featuring Nugget, Idaho 7, Centennial and Amarillo Hops, with underlying notes of honey. “Originally born in Cuba 150 years ago, La Tropical's La Original Ambar Lager is being brewed again in Miami and we couldn't be prouder to be compadres,” says Salt & Straw. “The bready, graham-cracker-like profile of this amazing elixir took us on a flavor journey straight to the land of flan, where we followed the original, ancient recipe to create a sunny syrup capped with a succulent guava drizzle.”
• Métier's Black Stripe Porter & Bread Pudding
“Hitting a custom flavor homerun with Rodney Hines at last year's MLB All-Star game is just one of our happy collaborations with Seattle's Black-owned Métier,” reports Salt & Straw. “Next up: This celebration of his silky-smooth Black Stripe Coconut Porter and marvelous Marjorie's it's-outta-here bread pudding. After we cook the beer recipe into a rich, robust syrup and pour in a heavy splash of the porter, you slide home with little bites of crispy brioche toffee on top of gooey bread pudding. Grand slam.”
• Monkish's Space Cookies & Cream Hazy IPA
This triple-hopped LA beer ice cream gets its “iconic hazy profile from a sharp use of English yeast, and we dial it into focus with our own triple-hopping process—a little boiling, a little cold steeping, and a little steeping with Everclear. Pitch in a decent amount of beer with some fresh grapefruit zest and a swirl of 'nilla cookie butter.”
• Russian River’s Supplication Ale w/ Manchego
Salt & Straw boasts, “In our humble beer nerd community, Russian River Brewing is considered the best brewery in the world. It seems impossible that we even got to work with them, let alone make frozen yogurt with this particular beer. Supplication Ale is aged 12 months with dried cherries in Pinot Noir barrels, and when it comes out—once a year—we chase the beer truck down the street. That's why we're so excited to blend the taste of Supplication into a really light fudge, swirl it with a touch of manchego cheese, and add a ribbon of marmalade made with those same tart cherries. It's fresh, tangy, and calm-tasting—all things considered—and that beer fudge is the star of the show.”
If you want to test out these new flavors before they disappear, current prices for a few of the goodies at Salt & Straw’s Disney Spring’s counter include: Single scoops ($7.25); Double scoops ($9.95); Kid’s scoops ($5.95); pints ($12.95); and milkshakes ($11.50). A variety of waffle cones and add-ons are available, too. You can also order the Brewers Series (or other flavors) for home delivery at Salt & Straw’s website.
Salt & Straw is located on Disney Springs West Side, and is open Sunday-Thursday from 10 a.m.-11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m.
Catch a cup while you are waiting for the Disney Springs’ “Dreams that Soar” drone show this summer!
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Beth Keating is a theme parks, restaurant and entertainment reporter for DisneyBizJournal.
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