Scoups Homemade Ice Cream

ok listens. Dis place is cool because dey have COWS dere RIGHT NEXT TO THE ICE SCREAMS and hardly NO ONE EVEN NOTICES OR SAYS THINGS but as a dog with my extra sensitives nose– it was a little bit smellies but it was also quite refreshings to celebrates de animals that make the juice for de ice screams while eating de ice screams. The other side of the ice screams place had pretty flowers which sort of is de opposites of smelly cows so it evens out. De only REAL PROBLEMS was dey had NO BANANAS and dat seemed pretty strange for an ice screams place because banana splits are very popular with humans, right? I don’t really cares because dey had vanillas and dats all dat matters with dogs pretty much. De other things I don’t get is why deres a U in da name? Scoups? How do you say dat? SK-​OW-​PS? Dats weird. But ice screams good.

Great ice cream at Scoups. It is better than Guptil’s which used to be my favorite ice cream spot.
The salted caramel milkshake is my favorite thing on the menu. It is creamy and is not too sweet. I did not taste the salt though. It is just like eating a piece of caramel.
The only thing I do not like about Scoup’s is that the cow pen is next to the seating area, so when you are sitting enjoying your ice cream, you are smelling the cows. Other than that, it is a great place.

Service and price were phenomenal, unfortunately I didn’t think the ice cream tasted very good. Relatively bland, and not that creamy.

Hands down some of the best mint chocolate chip ice cream in the area. And trust me, I’m picky about my mint chocolate chip. Rich, creamy, no obvious fake minty flavor additives, with WHOLE chocolate chips instead of shavings. And the soft serve I sampled from my kids’ cones was heavenly. Score!

Ice cream is so good. Unfortunately their serving sizer have been shrinking. Here is my «medium» with 4 literal golf ball sized scoops. Just order a small it usually ends up the same size.

I tried the junior hard ice cream in a sugar cone ($ 2.16 including tax!). I got the vanilla and s’mores flavor, which was the flavor of the week. I really enjoyed the s’mores ice cream! I gotta say that for the amount of ice cream, the price really can’t be beat. I would definitely come back to try other flavors. Someone mentioned the smell of the cows, which is a bit overwhelming if you are sensitive to smells. However, looking at them is nice, since you see the source of your ice cream.

Came here after lunch for a sweet summer treat and satisfy my sweet tooth. I’ve driven by this homemade ice cream shop so many times visiting The Crossings but never stopped in to see what it’s about. There were no lines during the time I went and only 4 other people enjoying their fresh made ice creams at the picnic tables near the cows. On the right side is their farm store that I didn’t check out this time but will in the future.
The large menu board posted next to their ordering window included frozen yogurt, soft serve, hard ice cream, and a few other treats. I had the special of the week blueberry (with real, whole blueberries inside!) and the peanut butter hard ice cream in a junior dish (that was just the right amount for me and was able to finish it). My friend had the blueberry and black raspberry hard ice cream also in a junior dish. The flavor of the blueberry ice cream was very distinct and I loved the actual blueberries in it. The peanut butter tasted refreshing and light, not on the heavy creamy side which I definitely appreciated. Lastly, the black raspberry was slightly disappointing since it’s fruity flavor did not shine through. it was even lighter than the other two we tried and we couldn’t taste the black raspberry flavor even as it was the very first spoon we tried.
I usually go for the hard ice cream and leave soft serve alone and fruit ice cream vs candy/​cookie/​cake flavors but I am interested to see what soft serve tastes like here and the cake batter /​cookies n cream. I’m also a big fan of weekly flavors and will be back to enjoy more of this goodness before our summer leaves us.

We don’t have air at home, so one of my few moments of relief from the summer heat is when I’m enjoying ice cream. The ice cream at Scoups was so delicious, it made me feel cool for hours.
I ordered a junior waffle cone and it was huge. Two soups and packed down to the bottom of the cone. I went with chocolate and birthday cake after seeing a picture with this combination in another Unilocal review. Both flavors were delicious and really creamy. My boyfriend had blueberry — the flavor of the week — and it was really good, too. Even had blueberries in it.
Next to the ice cream stand is a market selling veggies, fruit and flowers. We picked up zucchini, peppers, cucumbers and blueberries. Prices are low and all was good except the blueberries, which we discovered were overripe and going bad after the first layer.
We’ll be back for ice cream and to give the veggies and fruit another try in the future.

Soft serve stands are a dime a dozen. Sure, there are some standouts. But when push comes to shove, I’d rather have homemade hard ice cream any day.
Well, hellooooo Scoups.
One of the nicest things about living in the Capital Region is that nothing is really all that far. It only took ten minutes to get here from our favorite sushi spot in Guilderland. Okay, eleven. But still.
If it’s worth eating, it’s worth a few extra minutes to get the good stuff. And the homemade hard ice cream makes the grade. Peanut butter tastes like peanut butter. But I really like trying flavors where imperfections have nowhere to hide, like chocolate chip. The ice cream base is delicious on its own.
Of course, they’ll sully up their good product by throwing M&Ms in it for the kids. And Scoups made the unfortunate decision of needlessly coloring its mint chocolate chip a kid-​friendly hue of green.
But I won’t hold that against them much. Especially when their homemade lemon italian ice is gleefully color free, with a fine grained texture, and a wonderfully refreshing tart snap.
The junior sized cups of hard ice cream are enough for any adult and a shockingly reasonable two bucks. Part of me looks forward to trying my way through the menu. The other part of me wishes I’d forget all about this place. I think my metabolism may be slowing down. If I start coming here too often, I may have to finally get a gym membership.

Ice cream fresh from the farm here. Watch the very cows that made the milk for your serving of ice cream graze in an open pasture. The ice cream here comes in many shapes and sizes. Sundaes, hard ice cream, fro-​yo, shakes, frozen dipped bananas, slushies. The hard serve ice cream here is smooth and light, almost a hybrid of hard and soft serve. The flavors aren’t as complex as my beloved Guptil’s, but you can add in toppings and mix-​ins. It is a nice place to sit down and enjoy your ice cream with your family.

Very very Homemade! Great ice cream and the cows are close by to prove it. Ice cream favorites are: Love the Coconut, Cake Batter (sprinkles in the entire ice cream), Mint Chip and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (full size chocolate chips in these)

Scoups, in my opinion is the best ice cream place in the area. They have everything from ice cream to frozen yogurt and shakes. Today I went to Scoups with my bro and got a small ice cream in a cone. I got two scoops of cookie dough and one scoop of peanut butter. I savour every bite of ice cream I eat at Scoups. I definitely love it here and have been going for the past few years.
Crossings park is literally a thirty second drive away, so Scoups is definitely the closest and the best place to get some refreshing cold homemade ice cream after a long bike ride, walk, or run.
If you love ice cream, I would definitely recommend this place for you.

Scoups is a nice little dairy farm on the edge of the crossings park with a garden and homemade ice cream. I like to stop here before or after walking my dog at the park for some nice ice cream while my dog tries to make sense of the cows next to the sitting area.

I love Scoups! I am so sad that I didn’t discover this place until last year — yet I always noticed it there. Everytime I go, it is a hit. I have sampled several flavors from plain vanilla to plain chocolate to peanut butter, cookie dough, peanut butter cookie dough, to cake batter — all great! Their caramel sauce is divine — goes great on anything — its silky and lucious and oh my I love it so!
Their sundaes are massive — if you do not have a ginormous appetite — these are best shared. They do not skimp on the toppings — they give you generous amounts of topping, ice cream and whipped cream.
Staff is nice, they are patient with you as you comb your way through all your options and painstakingly decide what you want. They do a great job assembling your ice cream creation and always make it look like they enjoy what they are doing. I cannot wait for Scoups to open up again for the season!

Stopped here for the first time last weekend. My medium cone of cake batter and chocolate chip was gigantic. It may have been the most ice cream I’ve ever eaten at once. Delicious homemade flavors, generous portions. Order a small unless you can eat a half gallon of ice cream before it melts.
You can sit at picnic tables next to the area where they keep the cows, which is cute but also smelly on a hot summer day. It’s attached to a plant store, so you could always browse there while you eat.

Five scoops for Scoups! Fresh and flavorful ice cream packed a mile high no matter what size you order. A $ 4 medium in a waffle cone came with about four massive scoops which darn near killed me out of happiness! Oh, and they’re not stingy with their sampling portions either… just saying!
Grab some company, cool off with some deliciousness, and hang around the farm scene with the outdoor benches and umbrellas. MOOOOooooooo love me some scoups!
Oh, fyi, be sure to check out their weekly/​monthly specials… I almost passed up an opportunity for blueberry pie ice cream… COME ON!

Excellent scratch made hard ice cream. They have unique flavors of the week as well as tradional ones. One way to tell if an ice cream stand knows what they’re doing is to try their plain vanilla… and Scoups certainly has that down. They use locally sourced ingredients and fresh fruits when in season, in late summer try their blueberry ice cream. If you want high quality ice cream you need to check them out… if you want soft serve, preservative laden ice cream then Scoups is not the place.
Highly recommended for good quality, rich tasting ice cream.

This review is based strictly on the seasonal ice cream stand at Constantine Farm.
Scoups Homemade Ice Cream at Constantine Farm is conveniently located along Albany Shaker Road, less than a mile east of Wolf Road, past the Maxwell Road roundabout.
Scoups offers 12 homemade (hard) ice cream flavors plus a few flavors of the month, as well as soft ice cream, frogurt, razzles, shakes, root beer float, homemade Italian ice (cherry & lemon), frozen bananas, sundaes, freeze pops, and waffle cones & bowls. Take home ice cream pints and quarts available. Hot dogs, chips, and soda are also offered.
The place has covered outside order/​takeout windows and there’s picnic table seating nearby, right next to the cow (s) fenced in area (do not climb the fence or touch).
The prices are fair (in 2011):
Cones/​Dish
Hard Ice Cream: $ 2.75 (sm), S3.25 (md), $ 3.50 (lg)
Soft Ice Cream: $ 1.50 (jr), $ 2.50 (sm), $ 3.00 (md), $ 3.25 (lg)
Shakes: $ 3.50-$ 5.00
Sundaes: $ 3.50-$ 6.00
Since I drive past Constantine Farm quite often, I decided to stop for ice cream at Scoups on a warm sunny day, which was a little over a month ago. I ordered a Large Peanut Butter Passion (special flavor) cone, but as soon as the cone was handed to me, the hard ice cream began to rapidly melt, dripping onto my hand making a sticky mess and there were no napkins out near the windows. I had to eat my ice cream cone very fast as it was dripping onto the crushed stone gravel.
The ice cream was good, which was cold and had a nice creamy texture and not frozen hard solid, but the flavor was on the very sweet side with swirls of soft sweet peanut butter in vanilla ice cream. I would probably stick to ordering the Black Raspberry or Coffee ice cream (definitely in a dish) on a future visit.
FUN OBSERVATION: The Scoups «cow» logo sort of resembles the funny «cows» at Cows (
) based in Prince Edward Island.
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