Adding Prickly Pear!

[NillaRilla]

Anybody ever added prickly pear before? If so what was your prepping like? So far from what I gathered my plan is to just blend it up real nice and strain it a few times to keep seeds and what not out then add it in. Anyone have any further recommendations? Also thinking of adding some honey to it...opinions?

 

[Owly055]

Good flavorful prickly pear.......... and much of is not .......... would be wasted in beer in my opinion. The flavors are too delicate and would be overwhelmed. I encountered some south of Pittsburg Landing (Hells Canyon), that was a lovely delicate sweet actual pear flavor........ I had no idea until then that it could be such a lovely "fruit". What grows around here isn't worth picking............

H.W.

 

[SanPancho]

tunas are definitely hit or miss if you buy them at the store. the red kind are generally sweeter in my experience than the yellow kind. but like any fruit they can be sweet when picked, nor not. id definitely ask for help from the produce guy if you buy them. if you pick them, then just cut one open see.

i dont think the flavor is that subtle like stated above, if it is in fact ripe and ready to be eaten. but it has to be ripe.

blend and strain is fine. its got some weird gumminess to it, so it wont strain as easy as something like a peach or a watermelon. but it'll work.

ive only used it in sours. light colored, dry/crisp types. works well.

 

[NillaRilla]

Thanks for the input guys...i tried one they're definitely sweet but a mild sweetness I got red and green. I'm putting it in a bohiemian pils so subtlety is good I don't want it overpowering the beer by any means just add a lil depth to it...and some gnarly color for a pils...thanks again!