Tried the tea once, was instantly hooked. Made me kinda sad about all those times I struggled with the nasty fresh ones. Definately the way to go. Its the only thing I do nowadays.
I boil some water and let it sit in the boiler for a couple of minutes.
Drop the scrunched (dry) mushroom bits in a flask and add about one cup of water.
Let it sit for 10 minutes whilst shaking it a couple of times.
Strain it through a coffeefilter. You know, the oldskool triangular ones.
Usually just add some honey and its good to go. Once let it cool completely and added some strawberry syrup so I could take a bottle with me.
Worked fine as well.
And who cares about some potency loss? If you grow the things yourself you have probably more than enough material to work with, I know I do!
I tried out this method like this:
1 - Grinded up 2 grams (mix of caps and stems, mostly caps) of Psilocybe Cubensis mushrooms.
2 - Using an electric kettle, I heated up enough water to make for 3 tea's @ half a cup of water each.
3 - When the water heated up to its boiling point, I placed the grinded mushrooms into a cup and poured half a cup of the hot water onto them.
4 - I set a timer for 5 minutes, and stirred the tea every minute.
5 - After 5 minutes I strained the tea and placed the liquid into another cup.
6 - I repeated steps 3-5 two more times.
7 - After all is said and done combine the 3 half cups of water, and down the hatch they go! Make sure the liquid is cool enough.
All in all, on 1.8 grams of medium-potency mushrooms.. I had a very good trip. It was shorter than usual - only lasted about 5 hours in total before I was 95% normal again. It felt like I had taken around 3.5 grams of the same shrooms, to give you an idea of how much more intense the trip was. I have honestly found my new method of ingestion with these shrooms - heat really does not effect psilocybin like most think. I do not feel any potency was lost - if anything, it was gained!
Also, my Fiance tried roughly 2.3 grams (same mushrooms) and said she felt a very mind-blowing trip. At points it scared her, and she is a fairly avid tripper. I would say tea is the definitely the way to go, but make sure you watch your dose. 3 grams of good mushrooms in tea might mend your mind a little bit ;)