Injecting alcohol into fruits

On September 28 2012 00:27 huha59 wrote:
Isn't a non alcoholic fruit just a fruit?

On September 28 2012 00:26 AmericanUmlaut wrote:
I think you should keep the name, but change the business idea to a gay bar.

On September 28 2012 00:26 Cambium wrote:
you have to make sure it actually tastes good

i think it's going to be tricky to have alcohol evenly distributed in a fruit, you'd need to grow it with alcohol instead of water without having it chemically altered, which sounds like a pretty fucking hard problem (but will probably be figured out one day by some Japanese dude and sold for 1000000 JPY in Isetan)

Anyway, even if it does taste okay if you just randomly inject vodka into an apple, it sounds like it's going to involve a lot of manual labour or some serious investment into advanced machinery.

Assuming you go with manual labour since it's much easier to set up, as you don't have to invent a machine first. Given that you live in Malaysia, and I'm going to make an ignorant assumption that labour is relatively cheap there, you are looking at a serious crew if you want to turn this into a profitable business (meaning not something like a lemonade stand set up by a 5 year old) by any means. Then you have to deal with a slew of health regulations, sanitation of workstations, business registration, payroll, taxation, etc. Pricing such products may present another challenge. If the price is too high, no one will want to buy them, but you won't be able to make a profit (give the huge crew you have employed mass producing these products) if you make them too cheap. You also don't want to resort to cheaper raw materials, as they may ruin your brand before you even begin.

Finally, no one is going to buy a drugged up apple bleeding alcohol from some random dude off some beaten road just to get drunk. Doesn't that sound sketchy to you?