Too Bad This Isn't The Ice Cream Sandwich On My Android

North Brooklyn is expanding at a rapid pace, and the places seem to be getting cooler and cooler.  Just a few blocks from where I used to live on 5th and 5th, you can find Bierkraft - a self-described 'dine-in or take-out beer and food emporium'.  I must have passed this place a million times, but since I'm not a beer drinker never thought to go inside...

...until I learned that Bierkraft doesn't just have beer, they also have an ice cream cookie sandwich that makes the 'Best Of' lists.  After dinner last weekend, we decided to take a walk over to this place to check out this gelato sandwich, since ice cream seems like an appropriate dessert in the middle of winter.  When we walked in, I was a little bit confused - it appeared to be a convenience store of sorts with a long aisle filled with beer upon beer upon beer.  It turns out Bierkraft sells beers from around the world both by the bottle and on draft, where you can enjoy it with a sandwich, cheese and meat platters or specialty chocolates.  

In the freezer section, there I found the reason I came - the gelato sandwiches!  I picked the brownie cookie sandwich with chocolate chunk gelato, which comes from Il Laboratorio.  Honestly, what could be better than this!?  I was a huge fan.  It was crazy expensive - $6 for the sandwich - but two of us were barely able to split it, it was so rich and filling.  Of course I managed to finish it, because it was incredible.  I let it sit out for a little while once I got home so that it had melted just a little bit, and the gelato melted into the brownie to make it a little less thicker and easier to eat.  There are other varieties - cherry blondie with dark chocolate gelato and brownie with peanut butter gelato.  

Bierfkraft is open 7 days a week, from 12-11 Monday-Saturday, and 12-8 on Sunday.

191 Fifth Avenue (between Union and Berkeley Streets) in Brooklyn

R train to Union Street is the closest stop

www.bierkraft.com