Jester King Snörkel

Lolz

 

Jester King needs to work on OPSEC.

Loose lips sink ships.

 

Not me, put some salty gulf coast oysters in their by the thousands of pounds. I would be hanging out at JK every Saturday night.

 

I'd be down with an oyster themed beer like Night Shift. They even have fresh oysters for a buck...Buck a Shuck at JK...there in a heartbeat!

 

Good to know. I'll be at Night Shift on Friday.

 

Definitely try their Ever Weisse. I wish I had brought more of those bottles home.

 

That is a delicious beer.

 

Introducing Jester King Snörkel




We’re pleased to introduce our latest beer: Jester King Snörkel — a farmhouse ale brewed with alderwood smoked sea salt and oyster mushrooms grown by our neighbor Logro Farms. Logro Farms is located just a few hundred yards from Jester King Brewery at Ceres Park Ranch. They use spent grain from our beer to sustainably grow delicious oyster mushrooms. We’re excited to have now come full circle by using their mushrooms grown from our spent grain to make a new beer.

Snörkel takes partial inspiration from traditional German Gose. Like Gose, it’s moderate in alcohol (~4.5% ABV), brewed with malted wheat and salt, and has some acidity or sourness in the flavor profile. We specifically used both sea salt and alderwood smoked sea salt, and fermented Snörkel (like all our beer) with a blend of brewers yeast, naturally occurring wild yeast, and native souring bacteria, the last of which lends the beer its acidity. But Gose only served as a jumping off point. From there, we set out to explore the savory characteristics of umami through use of the oyster mushrooms.

Snörkel will be released at Jester King Brewery on Friday, August 15th when our tasting room opens at 4pm. Jeremy Bastian and Ryan Sansbury of Logro Farms will be on hand to celebrate the release, provide information about their sustainable mushroom farm, and sell their Grow-at-home Oyster Mushroom Kits. Snörkel will be available by the glass and in 750ml bottles ($12 per bottle, limit 3 bottles per customer per day). We have approximately 250 cases of bottles to sell (12 × 750ml). While we won’t have enough of the first batch of Snörkel for it to go into distribution in Texas, we plan on making a second batch later this summer that we anticipate will be partially distributed.



Oyster mushrooms from Logro Farms prior to being added to the beer


Alderwood smoked sea salt and sea salt


Ryan Sansbury and Jeremy Bastian of Logro Farms


Oyster mushrooms being added after the boil by Jeremy Bastian of Logro Farms

 

Man, if I ever needed a gopickitupformebro, now is the time.

He said to himself for the 10th time this year.

 

THANKS MATT! Gone and spoiled the whole surprise.

 

I'm pretty excited to get a grow-at-home mushroom kit. I guess the beer sounds pretty good, too!

 

psilocybiere.

 

i wonder what flavors the mushrooms introduced at the end of the boil. im guessing earthy....

 

Just Gose-ah show ya, the gang at Jester King isn't very secretive... lol

 

And of course, this releases the weekend after I'll be making the trip up there. Welp, ISO!

 

I got you covered, Tim!

 

I know where I'll be next month

 

JK are the only ones evil Genius-y to put shrooms in their beer. Two high-fives (market value $5) to anyone who lets me try some of theirs at SMABRD

 

I'll bring you one. Have those high 5s ready