Avocado beer is set to be the next big booze trend

Forget avocado on toast, next year we’ll all be drinking it in our pints
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Liz Connor11 December 2015

It’s the beloved fruit of celebrities, health experts and hipsters, and next year, avocado is set to be a key ingredient for craft brewers in the capital.

Daniel Wind from Bushshack Brewery, located in Yallingup, Western Australia has kick-started the trend for speciality beer brewed with the surprise ingredient.

The idea came about when Wind was approached by the Araluen Botanical Park in Perth for their Avocado Festival earlier this year with the challenge 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.

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

The mild flavoured fruit apparently gives the beer a creamy finish, without overpowering the taste of the lager. Wind also said that his new brew gets an added taste of bitterness from the avocado.

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The new beer comes as avocado was revealed as the most pinned food trend on the Pinterest social networking website, with pinners looking for alternative ways to enjoy their favourite fruit. Taking the top spot of the two most pinned recipes of the year were avocado egg bake and avocado hummus.

Sadly Wind's avocado-infused beer was one-off for the Australian festival, but apparently he’s already been inundated with requests to bottle the beer from keen fans.

Beer lovers of London, we reckon he might just be onto something here.

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