Post #319400 by telescopes on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 7:38 PM

A word about grapefruit. I have the pleasure of having my own grapefruit tree, that with careful picking, yields me grapefruit throughout the entire year. If I pick them early, I have a yellow grapefruit, if I let the sun get to it, it is more ruby red. However, and this is the key point I want to make, when you pick your grapefruit straight from the tree and then juice it immediately afterward, the juice you obtain is nothing like the juice you get from a supermarket grapefruit or from a carton of grapefruit. In fact, it is more like water with a slightly laced flavor of grapefruit. In a word, it is delicous beyond anything I've ever tasted. Not to sweet, not bitter, just simply grapefruit. Now, leave the juice to sit in the refridgerator a day or two and you get your more typical grapefruit citrus bite.

I mention this because we are always talking about "fresh". Here, however, it is important to denote that a truly fresh grapefruit will yield a flavor unlike that of a freshly "squeezed" grapefruit from the supermarket. And it is important to note that it also changes the flavor of your Navy Grog.