After strawberry and chilli, local Australian brewery makes avocado beer and it turns out a hit

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There is just no predicting what's brewing next from this local liquor factory in Yallingup, in the southwestern portion of Australia. One minute it is a strawberry-flavored beer and the next thing you know, you could be fuddling on your alcoholic beverage that tastes like chilli.

And, the latest eccentric-flavored beer to come out of this highly-creative local brewery had another unlikely fruit as its seasoner-the avocado. Yeah, holy guacamole, right?

But, for Daniel Wind who runs the Yallingup town's Bush Shack Brewery, concocting different beers of unique brews is just all in a day's work for him. And, as part of the Avocado Festival held last Nov. 28, the Araluen Botanical Park in Perth turned to Wind and asked him to create a special brew for the occasion—of course, it had to be an avocado beer.

"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 those people who know a lot about their beer, this new creation would fall into the beer lager category.

Wind said that his new brew gets an added taste of bitterness from the avocado, and also has creamier and smoother texture because of the fruit. "The bitterness actually carries from the avocado itself," he said, with the fruit giving the beer a "creamy finish."

For the festival, he got a delivery of 161 avocados from a local fruit grower, which is about 30 kilos of avocados to work with. He admitted that the process is not any easier, especially, the scooping and getting rid of the seeds part.

But, it seems like it was all worth it, as the reception for his avocado beer was warm. "We were quite amazed at the number of people, after tasting it, were coming back and asking for it," Wind said. There were even more inquiries about his beer as the upcoming holiday come to a close.

Avocados grow abundantly in the region. The fruit is produced in more quantity than hops, a plant whose flowers are dried and used in the brewing process to give beer its bitter taste. So, will Wind and his brewery ever consider replacing hops with avocados? The guy was not so enthusiastic about the idea and said that it was just purely for the event, wrote ABC.net.au.

"I don't see it as being a beer that people would drink every day," he said. "It is very full in flavor and most of your everyday beer drinkers prefer something a bit lighter in flavour."