Innovative summer treats: Pune's serving up a non-alcoholic beer ice cream, and it's delicious

Ice cream in the summers is everyone's favourite. Be it late at night, just after breakfast or post a hearty lunch, not many can say no to a couple of cold scoops of plain old vanilla, chocolate or the seasonal mango. With a wide range of flavours available in the market, children and old alike are spoilt for choice. But did you know that there’s an ice cream parlour in Pune that’s dishing out a beer-flavoured non-alcoholic ice cream. Yes, you heard that right.

Janjir, a restaurant near MIT College in Pune is the place where you can find this beer ice cream. Eighteen-year-old Nirbhay Patil, who recently cleared his 12th board exams has opened a startup called Mangifera, which is the botanical name for mangoes. His ice cream parlour offers chocolate brownies, mocha almond and even Sonapadi ice cream. But the most sought after flavour is the beer ice cream.

Patil said that the beer ice cream is non-alcoholic and only beer flavouring is used in this ice cream. The flavour is created by plant hops. This is a bitter plant and certain parts of the plant is boiled at a certain temperature and after processing it, you get the beer flavour.