Beer, Food, Life
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I can’t decide if this beer made with Chanterelle mushrooms good or bad. It’s definitely an interesting beer which is why I’m sharing the recipe and my thoughts. My intent with this beer was to see how the fruit flavours of the Chanterelle would complement the fruit flavours from Belgian wheat beer yeast.
The base beer [...]
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My very limited edition Peated Matsutake Porter (note the Matsutake is also known as Pine Mushroom) came to an abrupt end last night. I only made three bottles worth from Peated Porter leftovers after racking an over-filled primary fermenter to the secondary.
String of Setbacks
At first I thought the beer was ruined by some sort of [...]
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I never would have guessed at the horror that could result from such innocent inoculations.
Most people live their lives safely: without ever knowing the random terrors that can suddenly infect the unsuspecting. They go through their comfortable, daily drudge: eating, working, loving, hating, drinking beer…without an inkling.
But ill events have torn that blissful torpor from [...]
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My first mushroom beers consisted of Winter Chanterelles on a Belgian base. I tried different quantities of mushrooms and different methods for getting mushroom in to beer.
For the first beer, I used 0.9 kgs (2 lbs) of Winter Chanterelles soaked the mushrooms in vodka for three weeks. I then added the vodka to the 23 [...]
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Earlier this year I made my first two mushroom beers based on Randy Mosher’s Nirvana Chanterelle Ale from Radical Brewing (predictable Amazon affiliate link).
I kept the same grain bill and used the same yeast varying only the hops and the procedure for getting raw mushroom flavour in to the beer for both batches.
Image Credit: Colris
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