Mushroom Beer anyone?

[LarryF]

The jury's out on this one for me. He's obviously a very experienced brewer but the flavour of mushrooms in has me wondering and his method for using them has me shaking in my boots. These are very strong beers though and I'm have to wonder what would happen to the mushroom flavour over the time it would take to condition them properly.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/homebrewing-with-mushrooms/

 

[Clint]

Wonder if those special mushrooms would do....?

 

[LarryF]

Wonder if those special mushrooms would do....?

I didn't think of that , he doesn't say funnily enough.

 

[Sadfield]

Adding Fungi to wort, that'll never catch on.......

I wonder if there are similar compounds in mushrooms as obtained from earthy and savoury hops like Fuggles or Sorachi Ace?

 

[Brew_DD2]

Wild Beer do one with mushrooms in it. It's delicious.

 

[Covrich]

You have to get your quantities right.. not mushroom for error

 

[MrRook]

Denny's pretty well known here in the States. Several of his recipes have been brewed by pro brewers in the States and in Norway.

 

[ACBEV]

Wonder if those special mushrooms would do....?

You mean magic mushrooms, I did try them once in my youth, can't remember when or where you can pick them!

 

[Gunge]

You mean magic mushrooms, I did try them once in my youth, can't remember when or where you can pick them!

They go very well in cup-a-soups where their gag-reflex inducing flavour is muted. Not sure if beer would cut it.

 

[Clint]

I was on about chanterelles. ....

 

[strange-steve]

@clarkeuk told me recently he was making a chanterelle beer, I wonder if it was this recipe.

 

[stigman]

We recently did a will it brew challenge at my local homebrew club kind of like a secret Santa thing, I took along some dried porcini mushrooms because I thought it might actually work. I can confirm it does, the guy that got them was the one professional brewer of the group. Steve from beer nouveau so not surprising can't remember the exact style but he added a 1 gallon white wine kit. The beer had some lovely subtle earthy umami type flavours. http://manchesterhomebrew.co.uk/sept-2017-meet-writeup/

 

[Gunge]

I was on about chanterelles. ....

Ye, right! But I'd think beer tasting of any mushroom had gone off.

 

[clarkeuk]

@strange-steve it is Denny Conn's recipe out of his book experimental homebrewing