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Looked for the thread thinking "hey that sounds pretty interesting, dwarf fortress is cool."
They added cream of mushroom soup to it.
They added cream of mushroom soup to it.
they added cream of mushroom soup
Oh jeez that's worse than I expected. Is that even safe?
The milk sugars will ferment, but it won't be pretty. The fats will not ferment though - they will turn rancid. Back when I brewed mead (:im-vegan: now) I'd give the first fermenting stage about a month before siphoning it off. That's a long time for the cream to do some very gross and dangerous things.
Are there agave syrup meads for vegans?
Like a non-distilled tequila? I see no reason that wouldn't work. I still have all my old brewing gear so I'll probably pivot to fruit wines.
Unfortunately I also still have about 30lbs of honey I need to offload or use somehow. I might do one last brew for my friends, idk. Pre-vegan goods is a weird edge case - I'm not grossed out like with meat or leather, but I definitely won't be buying any more knowing what goes into it.
Jesus Christ, that's just about the worst implementation of that idea possible
But what kind of mushrooms? 
I could totally see this in a cyberpunk tabletop RPG, an alcohol of the future underclass.
I think it's Fallen London/Sunless Sea that has mushroom wine as the cheapest form of alcohol?
It's just the main form of alcohol since grapes don't grow undergrad. Some of the finer vintages are quite expensive indeed
Dwarf fortress has plump helmet wine as easy alcohol.
The Metro series has mushroom vodka as well
Nah it doesn't make sense. IIRC whisky uses very little water, so they'd probably be making that. Mushrooms don't have sugar for fermentation, so you'd just be adding it for flavor. And why would you do that??
Mushrooms don't have sugar for fermentation
unless you bred them to produce sugar!!
I was thinking about it more as a world-building detail in an RPG, rather than as a practical real-world product. Sort of like an alcohol equivalent to Shadowrun's "soykaf", a coffee substitute made from soybeans.
Mushroom Mead
That mofo made Jenkem.
I thought I was a bit of a psychonaut in my day butt 
Going blind from methanol poisoning really gives the visual hallucinations some nice oomph.
That doesn't happen from fermenting. This might make botulism though
You can absolutely get methanol from a bad batch of a fermented beverage. It's typically only a problem for distilled spirits because methanol's evaporation point is lower than ethanol, so you end up accidentally enriching your distillate; in non-distilled beverages there's enough ethanol to keep the methanol away from your liver enzymes.
The recipe they used if you're curious
They might get gods' forgiveness, but not mine
Elixir of the Gods
Fuck it, I'd try it.
tbh I would try that after it conditioned for a few hundred years
Would.
I don't think there's enough sugar in mushrooms to ferment.
You can make ketchup with mushrooms. It used to be more popular than tomato ketchup.
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Do mushrooms even have enough sugar to ferment? Discounting their microbiota, could yeast even break them down properly or would it need bacterial action?
Idk about this one…
it uses honey
I eat several pounds of mushrooms a week and that sounds fucking vile.
How is that a bad idea? It sounds awesome.
In what world does cold brew mushroom broth mixed with fermented honey sound good???
If you cook portabello mushrooms like roast them in the oven they render a lot of dark brown mushroom juice that is full of glutamate and shit and can basically be used like a vegan meat stock. I assume, I'm not a vegan chef and I've never done it, but anyway I bet you if I sauteed some garlic, onion, added that mushroom juice and then maybe like some tomato paste, more garlic and onion in powder form, maybe some cayenne and paprika if I want it to be more like a barbecue sauce, and then added some honey to it for sweetness in lieu of like brown sugar? you'd be like "damn this is good what is this sauce" and I'd be like IT'S MUSHROOM JUICE AND HONEY BITCHHHHH
I posted it'd be a great pasta sauce and then scrolled down. We have a habenero infused honey we already use as a pizza drizzle (it's delicious) and all the mushrooms in the world I'm thinking of doing a real wet and greasy mushroom fry, blasting it with whiskey to declare, filter the juice, reduce it while adding the Chilli honey and try it on some noodles
What if you like make duxelles and sweeten it with honey and cream and use that as like some kinda mushroom white sauce for a pizza (with lotsa roasted garlic obviously)
to declare
Is this a culinary term i need to know or did you mean deglaze (actual question)
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Have you ever tried it? Both of those are good alone, and adding honey to mushroom sounds tasty. Sweet and savory are a classic combo.
The above two points ignore the key point: it gets you drunk. Even if you are correct and it tastes bad, people ignore taste in favor of ABV every day in masses.
It would make a really really nice pasta sauce.
I'll have a sip
Drinking this will make you grow up the wall like Annihilation
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