Top 10 Local Ice-Cream Brands In US

Shimazu Store

Hot Licks Homemade Ice-Cream (Alaska) 

Hot Licks Homemade Ice Cream opened in 1986, and it was first ice cream and café shop. Soon afterwards the owners stopped serving food and focused exclusively on ice cream products. They can provide many unique ice- cream products such as “The Aurora Borealis” which is a vanilla ice cream with cranberries and blackberries blended together. They also offer ice-creams made with the touch of beer coming from sources such as Alaska’s Silver Gulch Brewing Company. Other than beer flavours they include green tea and chai tea, as well as coffee flavour in different types of ice- cream. Although they provide around 40 different flavours but you still can request for a new one.

Shimazu Store (Hawaii)

Shimazu Store

Shimazu Shave Ice provides the best shave ice in Hawaii because of the jumbo-sized servings and large variety of flavours .The smoothie ice cream comes in a many flavors like lychee, lemon, mandarin orange and lime. At tiny Shimazu Store, ice cream products are shaved to microscopic proportions, so it soaks up more syrup and provide great taste. People just can’t ignore their “ginormous” ice-creams which is as big as a bowling ball. The best thing about this shop is that  all the syrups which are used in ice-cream are homemade from the unusual flavours such as Crème Brûlée, red velvet  and even the stinky tropical fruit durian.

Moomers Homemade Ice-Cream (Michigan)

Moomers Homemade Ice Cream gives you the taste of fresh farm cream. They modify milk from cows into 100 flavours of frozen happiness, including Cherries Moobilee, chocolate swirl and brownie bits. They make more than 100 flavours of great tasting ice cream. Out of 100, Moomers can provide more than 20 flavours daily. They also serve people on demand flavour ice-cream with quick delivery. Here, people come for not only enjoying premium ice- cream but also pictures of countryside of family farms. Moomers Family share their passion for ice cream products with Tourists as well as with area residents.

Gray’s Ice-Cream (Rhode Island)

Gray’s Ice Cream is wonderful ice-cream shop in Rhode Island or in south-eastern Massachusetts. They are voted as No.1 for serving best cold creamy treats every year. Gray’s only sold ice cream products that had been made from Tiverton milk, but later on they began offering their own homemade strawberry, vanilla, coffee and chocolate ice cream. For Most of people who visit their shop “Flossie” Brow which includes rum raisin and frozen pudding is favourite flavour choice. Although, their menu currently includes more than 30 unique flavours, with coffee as the number one seller for all ages. But you can’t ignore other worthy choices such as grapenut, orange pineapple and peach brandy. .

Ben & Jerry’s (Vermont)

Ben & Jerry’s founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. This American ice cream company manufactures ice cream products, sorbet and frozen yogurt. The popular and original Ben & Jerry’s also offers a so called “fun tour” to kids under 12 for free which includes their ice cream samples. Ben & Jerry’s special Vermonster bucket is a large ice cream sundae served in Ben & Jerry’s “scoop shops. They also very popular for organising “The Vermonster Challenge” event held by Ben & Jerry’s in which each teams with four candidates compete to finish a Vermonster bucket and can win free ice cream for a year.

Berkey Creamery (Pennsylvania)

Berkey Creamery is the US’s largest university creamery where the main ingredient “milk” coming from their own cows. They make around 100 flavours out of 20 available at any time. Out of all flavour, “Peachy Paterno” made up of peach flavoured with sliced peaches and “swirl” made up of blueberry swirl and vanilla with Swiss mocha chips are worthy choices. In Berkey Creamery, Ice cream is both art and a science as well, like a scientist, they takes ice cream ingredient very seriously. Nothing depends on assumption, everything is calculated for providing optimal ice cream tasting. So, if you ever take a trip to this creamery make it a point to enjoy their ice-cream with your family at home. Nothing to worry about, they provide ice-cream cartons with dry ice bag (I already said that they are very serious about it).

Cliff’s Homemade Ice-Cream (New Jersey)

Cliff’s Homemade Ice Cream is worthy choice to visit in North Jersey for area resident as well as for tourists. With over 60 unique premium ice-cream flavours especially the Bailey’s Chocolate chip Cliff’s always on top in People Choice. They provide more than 10 flavours of soft ice cream, seasonal flavours and new great tasting flavours being developed all the time. Cliff’s is open all year long and always busy at serving people with low range to high range of ice-cream products. If you feel tired standing in line, it will be better to acquire picnic table and in mean time enjoy some other heavenly food products of Cliff’s.

Sweet Action Ice-Cream (Colorado)

At Sweet Action Ice Cream in Denver, creativity is all matters , though some of their flavour might sound little odd such as brown bread molasses or salted butterscotch but they’re wonderful and amazingly taste great. They also serve mix of wonderful chocolate and vanilla ice- cream. They believe in reaching the highest point of flavours, the typical chocolate and vanilla variations with surprising touch of beer, Chile blend, baklava, a honey and Cadbury crème egg. You never know what they will serve tomorrow but today is always great tasting in Sweet Action Ice cream.

Cayuga Lake Creamery (New York)

Cayuga Lake Creamery prepares the freshest-tasting ice cream by using fruits and chocolates and even local wines, whenever needed. Their most popular summer flavour ice cream is s’mores. If you go to the west side of Lake Cayuga, never miss the Creamery store. It’s a small place, just few tables and chairs, but they provide premium ice cream which is so rich and creamy. During the summer seasons, Cayuga Lake Creamery come up with their unique range of  ice creams  and frozen desserts with wine sorbets and. Their flavours include Doobie Blues Orange Sorbet and Splendour Strawberry, and they always try to come up with custom flavours for wineries and events.

King’s Homemade Ice-Cream (Delaware) 

King’s Homemade Ice Cream has two branches one in Milton opened in 1972 and other in Lewes in 1981 which makes King’s popular among large number of Americans. They serves delicious Italian ice and frozen yogurt. Their unique and legendary 16 flavours taste like no less than heaven ice-cream. King’s special “The banana ice cream” requires nearly 16 pounds of ripe bananas per 10-gallon batch, for extracting banana natural taste (as per they said). Nobody can beat King’s butter pecan or black raspberry and a new Dutch chocolate flavour (loaded with dark chocolate). King’s Homemade Ice Cream is created with real fruits, rich butterfat and only with the premium quality nuts.

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