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Elodie Lepicq
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In Carnac (Morbihan) that is emblematic companiesof which the glacier is a part, The igloo. A true institution located on rue Miln, that’s thanks numerous and unusual flavors that the glacier became known. This year it is nothing less than 130 flavors which Alan Girard, co-manager, will offer his customers. Here, you won’t see anything surprising in ordering an ice cream, three scoops, sweet potato, matcha green tea and lavender.
Homemade for old fashioned recipes
The process is simple: one idea, one test.
Our ice cream is made from raw milk from a farm in Carnac, which we pasteurize ourselves. These are old-fashioned recipes with fresh egg yolks, sugar and good milk. We then make and test our recipes ourselves in our laboratory in Trinité-sur-mer.
For banana flambé flavor with curry, it all starts in an oven where Alan cooks fry your fruit before you do flambéed dark rum in a pot and add everything to its preparation, sugar, egg yolk, stabilizer and milk.
When the preparation is done, Alan leaves mature between 24 and 48 hours before you send everything to freezer, the ice machine, as he calls it.
From originality to good taste
Whereas 2000 the brand held world record (Guinness Book of Records) taste along 171 flavorsthe new managers Alan and Nina, the owner’s children, have decided to reduce the offer to offer a best quality to the customers. “I remember potato or ketchup ice cream, it made the customers laugh, but it wasn’t good.”
Today, the co-manager continues to develop the range of original flavors, but tastes good.
Among the new functions we find poppy perfume, a taste made of essence. The required amount of fresh flowers would have been too large and the selling price too high to be able to work with the flower, Alan defends. However, he would like to point out that certain perfumes were made from fresh flowers like roses.
Audacity certainly, but it’s tradition that continues to be successful
While the 130-flavor Glacier has built a solid reputation in terms of variety of taste, this represents only a small part of its production, ” not more than 5%,” confides Alan Girard.
Lavender, cucumber and mint, yuzu and lime, green tea and matcha or even sweet potato and cinnamon, it is nothing short of a forty original flavors what the ice cream kiosk offers.
While Yuzu – Lime or Smurf flavor ranks among their biggest sellers, bestsellers which remain popular remain the essential flavors vanilla, salted butter caramel, chocolate and sorbet.
Perfumes that have delighted the taste buds 200,000 customers of the company during the year 2023 and made it possible for the Igloo to achieve a turnover of 800,000 euros.
Practical. Igloo is located at 14 avenue Miln in Carnac. Open from 1 April to 30 September, in the months of July and August the establishment is open from 12.00 to midnight. In the low season, it is open from 14:00 to 19:00.
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