Avocado beer is a surprisingly weird hit for an Australian brewer

You might like avocado on your toast, but would you like it in your beer?

Daniel Wind from Bushshack Brewery, located in Yallingup, Western Australia; specialises in beer with odder than usual ingredients, such as strawberry and chilli.

Wind was approached by the Araluen Botanical Park in Perth for their Avocado Festival on Nov. 28 and challenged to create a unique brew.

“They said if you’re going to come along, how about you have a go at making avocado beer — and I went, well why not,” Wind told Mashable Australia.

For the beer nerds, this brew is technically a lager, and most people don’t pick up on any avocado flavour. “The bitterness actually carries from the avocado itself,” Wind said, with the fruit giving the beer a “creamy finish.”

The batch, which began in September 2015, contained 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of avocado flesh and was brewed purely for the Avocado Festival. “We were quite amazed at the number of people, after tasting it, were coming back and asking for it,” Wind said.


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