Scream for these Hamilton-area ice cream spots
Let the screaming commence.
Ice cream is more than just a delicious desert, it is a summer experience.
Remember the sound of the ice cream truck from your youth? Soft serve at the fair? Or that big scoop from Stoney Creek Dairy?
Now the ice cream experience has expanded to be more inclusive for those of us with vegan diets or lactose issues.
The Spec reached out on social media to find the fan favourite ice cream spots in Hamilton and area.
Here are a few:
There's no ice cream list without this Hagersville ice cream producer.
Hewitt's manufactures over 60 flavours at their Highway 6 location, just north of Hagersville. They also produce goat milk ice cream. Frozen yogurt and sherbet are also available.
Hewitt's is also served at a variety Hamilton's other favourite spots.
A gluten-free, vegan bakery, on King Street East, between Sanford and Sherman avenues, Fairly Frosted opens their scoop shop on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
Find vegan flavours like sour blue raspberry, cherry chip and tiger stripe (with black licorice).
The heart of downtown Stoney Creek" tea room and bakery has been serving up ice cream since 2014.
Find flavours from Kawartha Dairy, London Ice Cream and Belly Artisan Ice Cream at the King Street East location.
Newly opened on James Street North south of Cannon Street, this vegan bakery serves up oat milk soft serve.
Their limited edition Thursday flavours are sure to be a hit for adventurous ice cream eaters.
Just east of Gage Park on Main Street East you can eat your feelings" at Willard's.
The ice cream producers makes small-batch nut-free flavours including classics like cookie dough; vegan selections such as watermelon lavender and also anything but vanilla" varieties including maple bacon whisky and mango sriracha.
Get your ice cream fix at this vegan junk food joint on Ottawa Street North, south of Barton.
Milk shakes, blizzurds" and ice cream sandwiches are available made with coconut milk-based ice cream from local dairy-free ice cream producer Rudys.
Find your flavour on Lakeshore Road just east of Brant Street in Burlington.
RC's boasts 35-plus favours and you can get a scoop on a made to order" funnel cake.
The old Wilson Street West ice cream shop, west of Shaver Road was taken over by new owners 2017.
They sell scoops from a variety of producers and say they have many dairy-free, lactose-free, gluten-free and sugar-free flavours.
This Upper Sherman scoop shop dishes out Hewitt's at their scoop shop near Brucedale Avenue.
Find all the standard flavours here.
Over 20 mouth-watering milk-based gelato" flavours and vegan fruit sorbets are made fresh daily at the Stoney Creek shop.
Head out to Barton Street at Fruitland Road for the goods.
Jeremy Kemeny is a Hamilton-based web editor at The Spectator. Reach him via email: jkemeny@thespec.com