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Erik Drews SOSComAlt Mushroom update week 8 The last time I inoculated spent grains, I utilized my method of working between 4 candles whose heights came to about the same height as a quart sized mason jar. The intention… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews SOSComAlt Week 8 Beer update IMG_0434 This week at cascadia homebrew we made a cardamom coffee stout while discussing malts and water chemistry further in depth. Vocabulary Words: Alpha amylase- one of the main diastatic enzymes at play… Continue Reading →
Day 8 of fruiting Erik Drews SOSComAlt Weekly Project Update 7 Mushooms As it is now week 7 I have decided to stop inoculating grains for this quarter because there will not be enough time left in the quarter for… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews SOSComAlt Weekly project post Beer Week 7 This week is the first time that I have gone to Cascadia Homebrew on Wednesday to help brew beer on a larger scale with my subcontractor, Chris Emerson. I received… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews SOS ComAlt Week 6 Mushrooms The fourth mushroom substrate that I have inoculated was grains from my smoked raspberry red ale. Once again, I added a teaspoon of gypsum to the grains before steeping them in the… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews Week 6 Beer SOS ComAlt The beer that I made for week 6 is a smoked raspberry red ale. After selecting the grains for my spiced vanilla stout based off of how I wanted them to affect different… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews SOSComAlt week 4 Mushrooms The third mushroom substrate is made up of spent grains from my vanilla stout. While I was preparing to make this beer and doing research on how to use the grains to their… Continue Reading →
Week 4 Beer After making a very light, hazy wheat beer that was geared toward mushroom colonization, I decided to take this week’s beer in a different direction. I decided that I wanted to make an extremely dark beer that… Continue Reading →
Erik Drews SOS ComAlt: Week 3 Mushrooms The second mushroom substrate is composed of the spent grains from a Full wheat ale. I chose to use a full wheat ale because I have read that both Shiitake and Oyster mycelium… Continue Reading →
Week 3 Beer This Beer I chose because shiitake and oyster mushrooms are commonly grown on wheat straw. My hopes are that I can make a decent beer out of only wheat without any barley, and that this substrate will… Continue Reading →