Brewing and Mushrooms (non-magic)

[Liam Callaghan]

Anyone know if it's ok to grow mushrooms in the same workshop as your brewing in or do the spores spread and bring a whole new level of funkiness to your beers?

 

I'm going to innoculate some fresh cut oak logs in another week and was going to keep a few in the other side of the workshop where its a bit darker and cooler (and damper).  I also have a button mushroom kit thats been sitting on the shelf for 2 years that I should probably do at the same time but just not sure if they are going to affect my beer production...  Could make it better of course :p

 

Otherwise its a shady spot in the garden and plug it into the irrigation system but then I have to run it past Mrs C and she is very protective about garden space.

 

Anyone?

[Damon Colbert]

I've been thinking about doing this myself, and I don't even eat that many mushrooms.  Can't look past some shitake though.

Will be interested to know how well the spent grain thing works, but the log method seems solid to me.  Cheers for sharing.