Not beer but wine

[michaelgray71]

I know this is a beer forum but, might anyone here know the recipe for mushroom wine.
An old buddy of mine had it once and has never found it since and he's looking to me for a batch, boy is he looking in the wrong place.
I can make fine wines and i'm thinking that you only need a base recipe and add mushrooms in place of the fruit...i think.
Please help....i'm in a quandary here.

Michael Gray

[mortong]

I found this:



What? A mushroom wine. Brilliant clear yellow. It tastes almost like a conventional white wine made from grapes.

How? Cook & liquidise 1 kg of normal edible mushrooms until they are rendered down to a blackish slimy mass. Put it in the demijohn, add water & follow the basic recipe.

Why? After finding some people unexpectedly liked the chocolate wine, I was determined to make a really outrageous wine. Mushrooms were selling very cheap in the local market so I made a mushroom wine expecting it to be foul black in colour and musty tasting. I was surprised when it came out a clear elegant yellow and not very bad flavoured. I've even had a friend who did not notice this wine was not a normal white grape wine until told.


Full instructions are here (http://duramecho.com/Food/NoveltyWines.html) .

[HogieWan]

that is so crazy I might have to make it.

[corkybstewart]

When he talks about rendering it to a blackish slimy mass how could you not want to brew it?

[Otis_The_Drunk]

I'm with corky on this one.

[mortong]

He mentions adding sugar to the blackened mass. I'd hate to contaminate my homebrew with such an unrespectable adjunct. A 2.2 pound lump of black mold is one thing, but sugar? No way!

...seriously, though. I think I'll try this method with my experimental 1 gallon series. I'll just replace the sugar with DME.