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Is the best ice cream in the world...in alaska?!
by Valerie Kern and Matt Faubion August 2020
Indie Alaska [WATCH MOVIE]
36 Hours in Anchorage
By Christopher Solomon Aug, 2017
Anchorage rarely gets hot — the average high temperature in August is 64 degrees. But that is warm enough for ice cream. Drop by Wild Scoops, where Elissa Brown serves up her small-batch ice cream. [READ MORE]
How wild scoops went from Farmers Market darling to downtown destination
By Suzanna Caldwell Aug, 2017
When Elissa Brown, owner of Wild Scoops Handcrafted Alaskan Ice Cream, moved to Alaska in 2014, her life was changing, but ice cream kept her balanced. [READ MORE]
From Tree to Cream
By Daysha Eaton May, 2017
The chartreuse leaves of the birch tree are one of the first signs of spring in Southcentral Alaska. But for a few weeks before the leaves unfurl the trees offer a sweet treat –a watery liquid that when tapped and boiled down turns into a rich, nutty syrup. Birch syrup is becoming a favorite flavor in the state’s budding local food scene. [READ MORE]
Fairview's Foodie Lot
By Suzanna Caldwell April, 2017
Tucked in the heart of Fairview is a strip mall with serious foodie flair.
Wild Scoops Homemade Alaskan Ice Cream, Alaska Pasta Company and Alaska Sprouts have set up production in the same building on the corner of 15th Avenue and Gambell Street. [READ MORE]
Top 10 Dishes our Food Critics Ate in 2016
By Riza Brown, Mara Severin Dec, 2016
...One of the best things I ate this year was her chocolate chip and sea salt cookie sandwich lavished with rich vanilla ice cream ($5-$6.99). It's something I could eat every day, interspersed with her more exotic flavors: spruce tip, coconut red currant, basil honey walnut, gin and tonic
The Da Vinci of Ice Cream
By Bailey Berg August, 2016
Elissa Brown's cookbook is a mess.
Not because it's blemished with ingredients, but because it's really more a scientific logbook than step-by-step instructions. Her pages read more like mad scientist scribbles—many of the recipes have annotations, percentages for various trials, equations and notes about controlling the variables in her experiments. [READ MORE]
Wild Scoops: Every Scoop has a Story
Gretchen Loves Anchorage February, 2016
If you don’t like ice cream, don’t read this. If you DO like ice cream, especially locally made ice cream and inventive favors, then dig in: Wild Scoops has arrived.
Wild Scoops – a new ice creamery in town – says that they believe that “ice cream should be more than just ice cream. It should be a chance to build community and to share in good times. It should inspire; it should delight.”
And does it ever. [READ MORE]
Dr. Fermento: "A Scoop of Beer"
Anchorage Press March, 2016
...“There are challenges when infusing beer with ice cream. Like making beer, making ice cream is a big chemistry experiment. Each thing you add to the mix will have an effect. You really have to work with the beer to make it shine in the ice cream,” says Brown.... [READ MORE]
2015 Holiday Gift Guide
Anchorage Press December, 2015
Check out the Foodie section of the 2015 winter holiday gift guide, in the Anchorage Press! [CLOSE UP]
Luscious Licks
by Nicole Lang October 30, 2015
Whether it is Glacier Valley strawberries, Bridge Creek birch syrup, Summit Spice tea blends or, a personal favorite of mine, Cookie Batter, Wild Scoops is a little piece of heaven for your taste buds. [READ MORE]
Alaska Bites: Wild Scoops
With Rebecca Palsha September 30, 2015
In this week's Alaska Bites, a local ice cream shop is mixing up some fun flavors. Who knew Alaskans loved ice cream even in snowy weather![WATCH IT]
Wild Scoops Ice Cream: Pearls on a String Flavor
By Lesleigh Frank September, 2015
Last summer I complained to anyone who would listen about the tragedy of Alaska’s local ice cream scene. It was nonexistent. My idyllic visions of walking the streets of Anchorage with a delicious, locally made ice cream cone in my hand and pushing a stroller with a perfectly behaved child in my other hand were quickly demolished....So, imagine my delight and surprise when someone not only saw the hole in the market but actually did something about it! Wild Scoops Homemade Alaskan Ice Cream recently opened up to create small batches of artisanal ice cream, right in time for the uncharacteristically warm summer we enjoyed. [READ MORE]
Wild Scoops folds unexpected local flavors into artisanal ice cream
by Kim Sunee August 13, 2015
Wild Alaskan salmon and halibut have squatting rights in most of our freezers this time of year, but you might want to consider giving up some prime real estate for ice cream made locally by Elissa Brown and Chris Pike. Their brain-freeze child, Wild Scoops, is only a few months young and already has a cult-like following among ice cream lovers in the know.... [READ MORE]
South Anchorage farmers market for breakfast, lunch and dinner (and drinks and dessert)
by Mara Severin July 24, 2016
..."Wild Scoops flavors are both comforting and sophisticated — sure to please your inner-child, and, you know, any actual child you might have lying around."... [READ MORE]
New ice cream company features Alaskan ingredients
By Lauren Maxwell August 3, 2015
When Elissa Brown sees a beet, she doesn’t think savory, she thinks sweet. Alaskan beets are a prime ingredient in her newest ice cream flavor, featuring Alaskan beets and orange. {READ MORE or watch]