Brewing Mushroom Coffee At Home

Fantastic Fungi
2 min readMar 11, 2021

Mushroom coffee is a combination of regular black coffee brewed with powdered medicinal mushrooms. Cultures all over the world, from Finland to the United States, have been consuming medicinal mushrooms like Chaga and Lion’s Mane in liquid form for generations.

There is no time like the present to brew mushroom coffee at home!

Mushrooms have benefits that are good for both your mind and body.

“I teach other doctors about the uses of mushrooms, and I recommend mushrooms and mushroom products frequently to patients; their health benefits are myriad, and we keep finding new ones,” wrote Dr. Andrew Weil in the Fantastic Fungi companion book.

“There’s a long tradition of using mushrooms as medicines in East Asia, especially in Korea, China, and Japan. I’ve studied traditional Chinese medicine and was very impressed with its use of mushrooms to fill niches for which we don’t have solutions in Western pharmacology.”

If you’re wondering how it tastes, you’ll be pleased to learn that it tastes just like normal coffee. The mushrooms in mushroom coffee are specifically selected for their neutral flavor, so won’t get any unpleasant earthiness or sponginess in your daily cup.

“Whenever I would drink coffee, I would get incredibly jittery and anxious,” recalled Rachel at Bakerit a.

“When I tried mushroom coffee though, it balanced out all of the negative feelings of coffee and instead gave a boost of creative energy.”

Wondering how to brew mushroom coffee at home?

In fact, you can make mushroom coffee anyway you like in order to match your specific needs and taste preferences.

Have you tried mushrooms in your coffee? It’s not as scary as it sounds-learn all about the benefits that are possible! To read the full article, click here!

Originally published at https://fantasticfungi.com.

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