I was just sitting at my desk and thinking about avocados (!) when it occured to me to wonder if anybody had ever tried making wine from 'em. No recipes that I saw on the Keller site, nothing when I searched this NG.
Is this doable, or is it just possibly in the short list of contenders for the Worst Idea Ever?
NOT trolling! Just curious.
- Matt Shepherd
Love them Avocados, but beings they have kind a delicate flavor and a fair amount of oil in them I would be a little worried the oil going a bit on the rancid side of things over time. Also I kind of think there might be a similar problem with the peanut butter wine that you mention in your next post. I don't know if the alcohol would tend to put the oil into kind of a oily emulsion or not,but if it did I would think that it would be really hard to clear. I guess the best thing to do is to try it and see what happens.
It is interesting that some wine recipes never seem to be talked about at all. One I made a couple of years ago was prune juice wine. Prune juice is great, it has a definitive flavor, it is available at any grocery store,and the raw materials are pretty cheap. The batch I made turned out well "interesting" but drinkable. It did have some prune flavor, but I would not serve it at your kids wedding as prune juice wine is down right brown in color! I don't know if there are any closet prune juice wine drinkers out there, but it would be interesting to hear from a few of them if they dare to show themselves!
22 brix
Well, I searched Jack's website for Avocado wine. If it's not there I doubt it has been made. :-)
Even if it's possible, I have to wonder what the result would taste like. I had avocado icecream once, it made vanilla seem exciting.
Geoff North Loburn, New Zealand
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:-) Prune juice wine certainly does have an "interesting" flavor, does it not? Once my local grocery had a sale on some large (I don't recall the size, but in the 2 liter+ range) jugs of pure prune juice, and I just couldn't resist the experiment... It's not something I'd make again soon, but it wasn't at all bad.
Not necessarily true. It may just mean that it was not worth owning up to.
Ray
That sounds suspiciously true. I'm reluctant to think there's ANYTHING that hasn't been tried out there.
But if I were to indulge in this folly, what would the more experienced members of the group suggest as a recipe? Avocados are high-oil, high-protein, and I doubt there's much tannin in there.
- Matt
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