Bravo Gelato Nashville started making gelato using Yazoo Brewing Company‘s beers with their Onward Stout. I liked this, and it kind of resembled a Yazoo stout float to me…beer-y and rich and creamy. Knowing they wanted to do a gelato using the Yazoo Hefeweizen, I suggested they make it with a mild banana gelato base. They took the idea and ran with it, and the resulting gelato was well received and excellent. (Read my review of Bravo Gelato’s Banana/Yazoo Hefeweizen gelato.)
For their next collaboration with Yazoo, they wanted to use the Sly Rye Porter. I suggested they use a tart cherry gelato to mix with the Sly Rye Porter, and they came up with an amarena cherry gelato. I don’t believe they could have made a better choice. More: Amarena cherry/Yazoo Sly Rye Porter gelato is the best yet
The gelato uses, I believe, only about a fifth of the bananas they would use normally in a banana gelato, so it wouldn’t overpower the hefeweizen. With each bite, you get great, creamy banana gelato, without it being overpowering. But on the finish…..ahhh….you get that 
