This mushroom beer recipe comes courtesy of Luke Smith of Coda Brewing (Denver, Colorado).
Luke Smith has at all times used contemporary mushrooms within the boil, so he doesn’t have to fret about wild yeast or micro organism. He makes use of a nylon bag to carry all of the mushrooms within the kettle in order that they don’t clog his warmth exchanger. Luke recommends sitting on a couple of bottles for a yr to be rewarded with wonderful notes of dried fig, plum, apricot, and Huge League Chew bubblegum.
In Colorado, wild chanterelles are solely foraged every year in late summer season to early autumn. If you happen to can’t discover sufficient in your native space, you possibly can get them organized from the Pacific Northwest contemporary in the course of the fall.
For extra mushroom beer recipes and to be taught extra about brewing with mushrooms within the article “Mushrooms: Foraging and Brewing Ideas” within the July/August 2022 Zymurgy journal.
