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[Buttery_Mess]

I've been up to this for a while now. Playing Dwarf Fortress, I grew envious of all the dwarfs' tasty looking wines. You can brew practically anything, after all. It's expensive and difficult to get hold of all the different fruit wines that are possible but extremely easy to do it yourself.

It was winter when I got my demijohns for Christmas so there wasn't a lot of wild fresh fruits available. However, you can easily source honey from supermarkets, which I just to make mead (currently brewing in the demijohns.) You can buy fresh fruits in the supermarket at any time of year, but it can be expensive. You can kind of cheat by brewing fruit juice, but you might need to top it up with sugar.

I decided to dilute some jams and brew them, since they're basically fruit juice and sugar to begin with. I've got some apricot wine, blueberry wine, and raspberry wine on the go here, and I can't wait to try them in a few weeks.

This summer going into autumn, I'll be able to forage wild fruits, and mash them up to make forage fruit wines and cider, just like dwarves do. I'll be able to make blackberry (bramble) wine, hawse wine, and crabapple cider- maybe even rosehip wine. I could even grow my own potatoes to make potato wine, if I wanted, or maybe even tomato wine?

I wouldn't have ever fallen into this rabbit hole without DF. It's something anyone can do.

[George_Chickens]

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE PLUMP HELMET WINE REAL.
YOU MUST USE THIS POWER WISELY.

[Buttery_Mess]

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE PLUMP HELMET WINE REAL.
YOU MUST USE THIS POWER WISELY.

Mushrooms have a very low carbohydrate content (they actually make a pretty good snack for dieting because of this; you can gorge yourself on them and fill yourself up and you won't put on weight) which means that they aren't ideal for brewing. You can make wine with them if you add sugar, but I'd prefer to avoid it in this case. I've done it with the recent fruit wines I've started making (the jam contains a lot of sugar) because the fruits are already high in sugars.

The difference between wine and, say, fruit juice and sugar, is that the fermentation process alters the flavour of the juice, subtracting some of its natural sweetness and replacing it with a boozy flavour. Therefore, you're not just getting an alcoholic drink, you're getting a unique new flavour that you can't obtain any other way.

I would submit that plump helmets are unusual mushrooms in that they have an unusually high sugar content making them suitable for brewing. They might also derive energy from the radiated evil of hell, which, for all I know, improves the flavour.

I'll have a think about it. There might be a way to make a passable mushroom wine that I'll have to look into.

[DwarfStar]

There’s an unusual kind of mushroom in the real world called the candy cap. It doesn’t have sugar either, but it has a flavor related to maple syrup. Not sure exactly how you would make a palatable brew recipe around them but maybe there is a way.

[Duuvian]

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/beer-food/homebrewing-with-mushrooms/

I don't know if it works but seems legit. I think he's using them for flavoring the alcohol.