Mushroom Coffee/Koffee Coughee Crowd source:
The biggest coffee roaster in our region has reached out about doing a mushroom coffee. I'm trying to figure out our wholesale pricing and it led me down this rabbit hole. We have been making mushroom chai tea and extracts that you can put in coffee but it's as good as a supplement and I have been recommending people put it into their cup even tho it's not as fine as commercial sand blasted stuff.
Putting it into a drip/pour over filter kinda clogged it. I was wondering if anyone knows if companies that make mushroom coffee with coffee have a courser grind to the mushrooms to help it not clog the filter and do they extract the mushroom beforehand like boiling or pressure cooking or let the hot water do the extraction?
I've been telling people to drink or eat as much of the chunks as they want in our current products but I've been wondering once it's an extract do you get the whole value of it by drinking the tea made with it or do you have to consume the mushrooms to get the full dose?
In order words, does the mushroom getting brewed or pre-extracted getting brew still pass the benefits through to the coffee?