Wild Beer Co Breakfast Of Champignons

Breakfast Of Champignons

 

Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production
Score
6.87
ABV: 4.1% IBU: 8 Ticks: 55
Wild Mushrooms + Wild Yeasts + Well Seasoned

We love all things wild and foraged at the Wild Beer Co and we are surrounded by a smorgasbord of various mushrooms in the Somerset countryside.

Fungi are at the heart of our brewery. Yeasts are micro fungi that do the hard work in making beer, we just feed them and put a roof over their microscopic heads. But it’s the amazing flavours and untameable nature of wild yeast strains that really excites us and when it came to pairing macro (mushrooms) with micro (yeasts) in a beer, it had to be The Penny Bun (aka, Porcini, or Ceps). Not just for the amazing nutty, earthy flavour, but because they are also untameable (mankind has so far been unable to cultivate them).
 

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Old rating - A 330ml bottle. Pours a bright amber with a foamy white head. Aromas & tastes of flora, fruits, earth, yeast, herbal, funk & tart. Medium body. Dry slightly bitter yeasty finish. Excellent

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jun 2025 at 16:22


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught@Panema, Helsinki. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is sour wood, some earthy notes. Flavour is fruity, floral, wooden and some slight dry tart wooden notes.

Tried on 06 Sep 2023 at 22:29


06/06/2019. BEERCRAFT OF BATH, 3 Argyle Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England

Tried on 19 Feb 2023 at 08:39


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Somewhat hazygolden, medium white head, fairly lasting. Vinous nose, slight spices, cellar notes. Perhaps a hint of earthy notes. Puckery sourness, slight fruity feel. Light and fresh. I don't get any of the mushroom feeling, but the beer is a nice sour ale.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2020 at 14:57


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle sophiesbeerstore.co.uk. Unclear golden orange, sparse white head. Aroma has pleasant wild floral white wine. Taste is heavy on the wild yeast, floral with a fine carbonation and nice tight wild sour bite, some white wine notes, gooseberry perhaps.. very distant parsley and cracked pepper on the finish but really struggling to detect any mushroom-like earthiness whatsoever. As someone who eats all kinds of mushrooms regularly it was a little disappointing for them not to feature more prominently. But it's a great wild beer. Bright and flavoursome.

Tried from Bottle on 14 May 2020 at 17:29


7

Tried from Draft at BeerGeek Bar on 25 Jan 2020 at 17:43


7

Tried from Draft at BeerGeek Bar on 25 Jan 2020 at 16:23


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap at BeerGeek bar. Hazy golden body. Perfumey, pungent, sweetish... odd aroma, can't pintpoint it really as a specific thing - mushrooms and parsley? May well be. Spicy, tart taste, big lactic acidity, quite lean. The same flavor continues on. Quite unique really, but not more than good/okay. But you gotta dig the fact there's some crazy folks doing things like this.

Tried from Draft on 16 Jan 2020 at 15:38


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at Beergeek. Interesting, but not very intense in any of its aspects. Mushrooms may be included, but what it really is, is basically a standard sour, with the faintest hints of mushrooms, if any at all. Still good beer though

Tried from Draft on 15 Jan 2020 at 19:41


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Big aroma of tartness and mushrooms (thanks to the name). Taste is classic wild beer. Sour and teeth coating, bit of a lack of interest but it's alright. Mushroom there but...

Tried from Bottle on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:04