Adventures in Ice Cream

The Blackberry's back in operation, but I wanted to give it a test to make sure I could post with it again, as well. If you're reading this, then I guess it worked. While I'm here, though, I suppose I should provide some content.

The heat wave seems to have broken for the moment, but the whole month of August still awaits, and if it remains temperate through then, too, well, there's a lifetime of global warming to look forward to. Sooner or later, we're going to need a way to cool down again. In this week's Reader, Nicholas Day has an intriguing idea--beer floats! He correctly points out that we're already quite used to root beer floats, so beer isn't that much of a departure. You have to be careful of the kind of beer you use, and he warns against chocolate stouts, no matter how obvious the combination with ice cream might be. Belgian fruit beers (as long as they're not too fruity or sweet) come highly recommended. So the next time you need something to cool you down, live dangerously and drop a couple of scoops of ice cream into your beer.