A vegan avocado beer will soon be on tap at a London pub

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Miracle or monstrosity? Long Arm Pub is serving avocado beer
Ailis Brennan22 October 2018

If you're thinking London has had enough of the avocado, sadly not: a Shoreditch pub will start serving avocado beer next month.

For those looking for a taste of the ultimate fad-tastic craft beer, Long Arm Pub on Worship Street will pouring pints of Avocado Stout for £5.50 a go from the beginning of November .

The press office for the pub say dark malts have been "combined with a subtle creamy avocado flavour and aroma" of the millennial-friendly fruit, with avocado having been just after the secondary fermentation. Regrettably, it is not a luminous shade of green.

A pint of the stout also comes guilt-free for animal-lovers, ticking the very 2018 box of also being 100 per cent vegan.

The pub does double as a Tank Fresh brewery, meaning the publicity-hungry stout is pumped straight from 500 litre tanks on site.

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The introduction of the beer to the pub scene follows on from other avocado-based escapades of 2018, including the launch of Avolato (avocado ice cream), and the opening of the Avobar, which serves burgers encased in avocado buns.

Writing in the Sunday Times, the late critic AA Gill once described avocados as having "the texture of a smug Mars bar and the flavour of glazing putty."