Bonus Treats:
We headed back to the hotel to swim and enjoy some pineapple vanilla swirls from the Poly. No pictures here though because we were taking advantage of just needing swimsuits and magic bands. So freeing! Just charge it to the band. They filled those little cups super tall. The kids were impressed. To be honest I was too until we discovered the gaping hole in the center of the awesome swirl. I’d be more impressed if it was solid ice cream. It started dripping quick though, especially with kids in charge of eating. The adults had to swoop in to lick up the drips before it turned into an Olaf in summer situation.
Sometimes it’s tough being a parent. Being required to keep the ice cream from dripping wasn’t one of those times. If you like pineapple and haven’t tried the pineapple ice cream in any iteration, it’s worth doing. It’s a creamy sherbert (yeah, I spelled it like people say it. What?) type. I think they make them as floats too, with pineapple juice for the drink portion. Also good.
Back at the Magic Kingdom later that afternoon we hit up Gaston’s Tavern. We had a special request from DD to buy Gaston’s mug souvenir cup for her brother since we had purchased the Belle goblet for her the previous year. So naturally we ordered LeFou’s Brew in the mug. They did something super awesome for us adult types. The put the drink in a plastic cup and then put the cup in the mug! Whoa! No need to rinse out the mug before stuffing it in the backpack. Amazing! Last year we drank directly from the goblet and then had to rinse it out. Or maybe we put it in the bag sticky. Surely not. I love LeFou’s Brew. I’ve read some reviews of people who were disappointed because they were thinking it was going to be like the frozen butter beer over at Harry Potter World, as I like to call it. It’s not. If you take the time to read what it is you’d know that it’s a frozen apple juice with a hint of toasted marshmallow topped with all-natural passion fruit-mango foam. It’s delicious. But if you go in expecting it to be butter beer you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think people still make that mistake anymore though, maybe just in the beginning when it first opened. I don’t know. I haven’t read any reviews about it in a long time.
LeFou's Brew in a cup in a souvenir mug.
It is funny how people assume the parks are straight up copying each other. You KNOW they have more sense than to pretend that the French countryside tavern in Beauty and the Beast served a butterbeer-like concoction. They know they can’t get away with that. At the same time, we all know what they were REALLY drinking in that tavern, and you can’t really expect the kids to go crazy for wheat flavored frozen drinks. What to do? Make something that looks like beer, but isn’t. And then make a foam that tastes good with the drink. Nailed it! The drink is frozen apple juice, which is pretty good when you get used to it. Now, the fun part is when you put the foam on it. Then the mango kind of punches a little acidity into it, which comes back to earth with the apple. And the marshmallow creamifies the situation. Yes, I made that word up. At least I think I did.
Does it look like they make this drink up in response to butterbeer? Heck yes it does. But it’s not an imitator or a duplicator. It’s more of a ‘that was a great idea. What can we make that’s frozen with a topping on it?’
We headed back to the hotel to swim and enjoy some pineapple vanilla swirls from the Poly. No pictures here though because we were taking advantage of just needing swimsuits and magic bands. So freeing! Just charge it to the band. They filled those little cups super tall. The kids were impressed. To be honest I was too until we discovered the gaping hole in the center of the awesome swirl. I’d be more impressed if it was solid ice cream. It started dripping quick though, especially with kids in charge of eating. The adults had to swoop in to lick up the drips before it turned into an Olaf in summer situation.
Sometimes it’s tough being a parent. Being required to keep the ice cream from dripping wasn’t one of those times. If you like pineapple and haven’t tried the pineapple ice cream in any iteration, it’s worth doing. It’s a creamy sherbert (yeah, I spelled it like people say it. What?) type. I think they make them as floats too, with pineapple juice for the drink portion. Also good.
Back at the Magic Kingdom later that afternoon we hit up Gaston’s Tavern. We had a special request from DD to buy Gaston’s mug souvenir cup for her brother since we had purchased the Belle goblet for her the previous year. So naturally we ordered LeFou’s Brew in the mug. They did something super awesome for us adult types. The put the drink in a plastic cup and then put the cup in the mug! Whoa! No need to rinse out the mug before stuffing it in the backpack. Amazing! Last year we drank directly from the goblet and then had to rinse it out. Or maybe we put it in the bag sticky. Surely not. I love LeFou’s Brew. I’ve read some reviews of people who were disappointed because they were thinking it was going to be like the frozen butter beer over at Harry Potter World, as I like to call it. It’s not. If you take the time to read what it is you’d know that it’s a frozen apple juice with a hint of toasted marshmallow topped with all-natural passion fruit-mango foam. It’s delicious. But if you go in expecting it to be butter beer you’re gonna have a bad time. I don’t think people still make that mistake anymore though, maybe just in the beginning when it first opened. I don’t know. I haven’t read any reviews about it in a long time.
LeFou's Brew in a cup in a souvenir mug.
It is funny how people assume the parks are straight up copying each other. You KNOW they have more sense than to pretend that the French countryside tavern in Beauty and the Beast served a butterbeer-like concoction. They know they can’t get away with that. At the same time, we all know what they were REALLY drinking in that tavern, and you can’t really expect the kids to go crazy for wheat flavored frozen drinks. What to do? Make something that looks like beer, but isn’t. And then make a foam that tastes good with the drink. Nailed it! The drink is frozen apple juice, which is pretty good when you get used to it. Now, the fun part is when you put the foam on it. Then the mango kind of punches a little acidity into it, which comes back to earth with the apple. And the marshmallow creamifies the situation. Yes, I made that word up. At least I think I did.
Does it look like they make this drink up in response to butterbeer? Heck yes it does. But it’s not an imitator or a duplicator. It’s more of a ‘that was a great idea. What can we make that’s frozen with a topping on it?’