McConnell's - Chocolate Almond Brittle

Chocolate Almond Brittle - Mouth-filling, medium dark, pure Guittard® chocolate melted into California Central Coast, grass-fed milk & cream, then marked by chunks of house made, smoky, salt roasted almond brittle.

Another McConnell's pint is being reviewed.  Note that even their drier description of the flavor lays it on pretty thick and for your reading pleasure, I also include a screenshot of the Peterman-catalogue style text from the back of the pint.

The previous McConnell's pint (Eureka Lemon and Marionberry) was very icy and gelato-like in texture, but I wasn't sure if that was an attribute that is true of McConnell's in general or if it was due to the fact that it was a lemon-flavored base.  So, this time I deliberately chose a richer chocolatey flavor.

Opening the pint, the ice cream was strikingly dark.  The darkest chocolate ice cream that I have tried so far.  From the first scoop, I note that it is icier than expected.  Its a richer cream that the lemon was but its still a very dense frozen base with not much air in it.  It almost has the consistency of a fudgesicle but with higher quality ingredients, of course.  The almond brittle was very interesting.  You could see it in the ice cream, but everything except for the nuts melted in your mouth.  It was like the brittle was melted.  It was probably better to have it suspended in the ice cream that way rather than have the teeth-breaking version of brittle that comes in a both.  The metled brittle added a bit of buttery texture as you ate each scoop and then the remaining almond pieces were rather small in size (though not small in number).

I liked it.  I think for the richer flavors like chocolate, I'd prefer a less-gelato-like texture, but the melted brittle was quite a novel add in.  For my next McConnell's flavor, I might try the mint-chip as that's one of my all-time favorite staple flavors and I'm curious to see what they do with it.