We believe in making ice cream that showcases the milk from our farm, and in creating simple, interesting flavors to be enjoyed with those you love. 

As a family, our fondest memories and strongest bonds were formed while sharing great food. Food that was created with such care that you could taste the difference. Experiences were created and conversations spurred over thoughtful dishes. 

We are lucky to have grown up in the South where great food is common and ingredients are abundant. Food is different here. Preparing one meal can take hours. Simple ingredients are transformed into something amazing. Cooking is executed with love and meals are still enjoyed together. Flavors are layered and compiled to create something just as deep and complex as our relationships. People come together to create and share food. Meals are much more about experiences than just sustenance.

We love everything about the experience of sharing great food, so we began creating our handcrafted ice cream to share with you. Please enjoy our ice cream with friends and family. It is our hope that, in some small way, our ice cream will help create moments with those you love. We hope that you can taste the time and care that goes into every scoop of our ice cream. Please enjoy!

The Ice Cream

 After attending ice cream school (yes, they do exist) at the University of Wisconsin and Penn State, we were ready to begin crafting our ice cream. Demanding that our recipes not be overly sweetened and our milk stay non-homogenized made our work a little difficult. There were several ice cream variations that were good (it is still ice cream after all…it can’t ever be that bad), but they weren’t exactly what we were looking for. We wanted a specific taste and texture and we weren’t willing to settle for anything else. After several months, we finally developed a recipe we knew we could start working with.  From there, we started working on flavors. 

We wanted to create flavors, not add them. Our goal is to create simple, interesting flavors that don’t overpower the rest of the ingredients. We want the ingredients we add to compliment the dairy components rather than mask them. After putting so many tireless hours into caring for our cows to help create delicious milk, we definitely don’t want to cover it up. 

As we worked, we went to other local farmers/producers and began gathering as many of the best quality, local ingredients as we could.  After developing the taste and texture we wanted, creating flavors, and finding the ingredients we needed, our ice cream was finally ready to share with you.

The shop

After selling our ice cream whole sale for 5 years, we decided it was finally time to take the leap, and open our very own retail shop! We chose a building in the heart of our little town that needed some work, but had so much potential. We worked on renovating this space for about a year before the time came to open our doors. At our shop we serve our ice cream by the scoop in cups or in our homemade waffle bowls and cones. We also carry pints, ice cream sandwiches (when we can keep them in stock long enough), milkshakes, floats and much more! We always talked about if the day did come to open our own shop, we wanted to serve coffee as well. We carry coffee from Amavida, a local roaster in Santa Rosa Beach. We have viewing windows that look into our production area, so if you catch us at the right time, you can see how we make ice cream and possibly get a fresh sample of whatever we’re making that day!

We milk our cows and make our ice cream in the same community where we serve these products. Local is not just a term we throw around, it is who we are. We are a local, small business and are extremely fortunate to have the support of our customers, who have become family. We truly enjoy getting to talk to people about what we do, and helping bridge the gap between farmer and consumer.

We have an amazing team who works hard every day to make this whole operation function smoothly. The Southern Craft Creamery team takes great pride in what we do, and strives to give each person that walks in our door a positive experience through conversation and delicious dairy products.

The MILK

After selling our milk through the commodity milk market for the past 26 years, we felt a disconnect with our local consumers and wanted to be able to provide our local community with milk from a local farm, our farm. Since beginning Southern Craft Creamery, we have had lots of questions about where people can find our milk. As milk cooperative members, we can never say exactly where our milk ends up and it’s always combined with milk from other farms in the region and sold to various large milk processors.

We felt the need to be able to provide our local customers with an answer to the question about where to find our milk and support our local community with farm fresh products! We are still members of our milk marketing cooperative, but bottle a portion of our milk here in our creamery for local customers to enjoy.

Our milk is a creamline, or non-homogenized milk, so there will be a thick layer of cream that rises to the top of every bottle. This cream can be poured off the top to be enjoyed in coffee, or decadent desserts, or you can simply shake your bottle before pouring to enjoy the deliciousness of the whole milk from our pasture based jersey herd. It will taste richer and creamier than most other milk available in the grocery stores and you will notice it has a slight yellow color, indicative of the heavy grass based diet our cows enjoy. We truly hope you enjoy!