Monkey Beard Mushroom IPA
Outer Light Brewing Company

Mushrooms in beer, mushrooms in an IPA? We’ll be honest, we had the same questions when Seacoast Mushrooms brought this idea to us. We’d like to consider ourselves good quality brewers who take chances, albeit calculated. Maybe we don’t get credit for it, but we couldn’t say no. We got to work on a rigorous tasting of all of Seacoasts Mushroom’s varieties, eating them raw, steeping them, tasting them, blending them. We came across a blend of two mushrooms that lent themselves to earthy, light, and surprisingly bright citrus flavors. One of the mushrooms is even described as citrusy, who knew? What other hop to blend them with other than Citra? We chose cryo Citra on a light, smooth, oaty malt base to blend amazingly well with the mushrooms. At first sip you wouldn’t think any mushrooms were in it, it’s wonderfully citrusy. You might catch some mineral flavors at the start. As you drink you’ll start to notice some earthy flavors at the back sides of your tongue. It was obvious to us it wasn’t a one pint pony. Join us in the taproom for a pint or take home some 4 packs. 6.5% abv. Lion’s Mane and Golden Oyster Mushrooms. Cryo Citra Hops.