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I started getting more serious about brewing this year and have been giving a lot of thought to brewing a shroom beer, but it seems like it would be more a novelty than anything. If I were to do it, I would use pans or woodlovers or a similar potent mushroom, so I could limit the amount of actual mushrooms that are in the beer. I feel like it would taste like shit loaded with a ton of cubes...
I would probably just brew a tea with the mushrooms and add during the secondary
If I were to do it, I would probably make it relatively weak, in terms of shroom trippiness. It would be a pretty nice thing to have at a party (what are those??) to just get a small amount of mushrooms to brighten everything up. If I really wanted to trip hard, I would just eat mushrooms haha and save the beer for the comedown.
I recently brewed a candy cap stout that turned out fuckin delicious! 00burnout, what other edible mushrooms have you brewed with? I'm thinking of trying a chanterelle beer next
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Chanterelle, black trumpets and morels all make super tasty beers. I can't for the life of me remember what style of beer we did with those, something light for sure.
That was my plan, make a tea and add it to secondary, or add them directly to secondary. I agree on not making it stupid strong on the mushroom side, both for flavor purposes and because if it is tasty, it would be too easy to go off the deep end. Though I think a light dose to give a body high and brighten up the room would be wonderful.
I've been playing around with making mocktails lately, I'm gonna play around with making a cannabis simple syrup for it and if I can find a strong enough flavor that pairs well, a mushroom mocktail would be the tits
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I happen to brew for a large regional east coast brewery. I've done some sporadic cultivation in the past but due to all the extra free time with covid I've thrown myself back into the hobby head first.
My thought with the beer is that it would be both inconspicuous and convenient; 1 dose/bottle. I'd keep the ABV low as the goal would not be to get drunk, thinking maybe a brown ale or something.
I've thought about how to infuse and settled on whirlpooling a mesh bag of ground sclerotia at flame-out. I'm just getting them started from spore but I've read the sclerotia taste better than cube fruits, sort of nutty depending on substrate. I currently use rye berries which I've read are one of the best options for sclerotia producers but I'm now also wondering if I can successfully cultivate them on specialty malts. The flavor possibilties could be drastically expanded. Definitely going to try!
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 Re: Mushroom Beer?  [Re: mboehm]
#27014630 - 10/31/20 08:46 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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From what I remember, cause I asked around about it, malts aren't any good for spawn because of all the sugars. Definitely worth a try though, and I've heard of spent mash being used for oyster cultivation, but oysters will rip through anything nutritious.
I use to grow the crap out of sclerotia, but sadly my culture got left behind with all my prints and equipment when I moved (in the hands of someone who is getting into the hobby, so not a total loss). Ime sclerotia taste like walnuts and really bitter carrots. I grew them on oats though.
When I was thinking up this idea, I thought a sour would work well as far as flavor and still be a low ABV. My only worry with adding them to the whirlpool is how much the psilocybin would degrade during primary fermentation.
Tea is my go to, because it's super inconspicuous. I've taken a few growlers into festivals to share with my fam with no issues.
If you get to it, let me know how it goes. I would love to see this idea come into fruition. My days of drinking are done, and I'm learning that I'm at minimum gluten intolerant, so beer is definitely out of the question for me (I have no desire to try gluten free beer, that just sounds like an insult to beer lol)
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I would make psilocybin tea and add that tea before bottling into the brite tank after filtering or centrifuging most of the yeast out.
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Quote:
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I would make psilocybin tea and add that tea before bottling into the brite tank after filtering or centrifuging most of the yeast out.
I typically rely on finings and sedimentation for clarity when I brew at home. My brew system is not very complicated but I do actually have a pad filter I could potentially use for polishing. Is there a concern that yeast would metabolize the active compounds?
I guess a tea would offer the most control and flexibility. Do you think a hot side addition wouldn't work at all or would it just be difficult to gauge how much to use? I may as well try both.
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Re: Mushroom Beer? [Re: mboehm]
#27016159 - 11/01/20 06:06 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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When the yeast eventually die and spill their contents it contains a lot of enzymes that may or may not cause problems.no clue but I would at the least cold crash and rack off the yeast then dose tea. I think it would give way more control too
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I'm with bod on this one, but I would like to see how other methods would work out, both in terms of potency and flavor.
Been a minute, how ya been bod?
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