The Making of a Guinness Milkshake

Moon's Guinness Milkshake

Moon’s Kitchen Cafe owner, Bob Dempsey, reveals the splendor that is the Guinness Milkshake. We doubt that Martha Moon could ever have imagined this being on the menu when she started serving breakfast in her dad’s fishing and hunting shop back in the ’50s in downtown Boise, Idaho.

Warning: this milkshake is not for the faint of heart. But if you love ice cream, Guinness Stout, and John Steinbeck, this may be just the cure for bumping your shins up against the hard surface your Calvinist work ethic…especially if you have one at 11 am, as I did in this Behind the Menu Drive By Moment.

We should mention that Bob also serves up a mean Apple Pie Milkshake for the teetotalers among you…or those who simply can’t bring themselves to mixing ice cream, chocolate sauce, malt, and fermented grain beverages.