Mushroom Beer? Yeah, That's a Thing

Post from Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center:

Be the first to taste the Mushroom Beer, eat the mushroom ice cream and sample the wild mushroom and oyster stew! Buy your tickets for the Wild Mushroom Festival online through Saturday night, and no waiting in line on Sunday to get in! Your tickets will be waiting for you at our special ‘prepaid’ entrance.

The festival will take place on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2 to 5 p.m., at 109 Pequotsepos Rd., Mystic. Tickets are $15 for members and $18 for nonmembers (includes four food tickets). Child members attend for $5 and children who are nonmembers attend for $8 (includes two food tickets). Extra food tickets may be purchased separately at the festival.

There will be two mushroom seminars, at 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. The presenters are:

• Bill Bynum (President, Connecticut Valley Mycological Society): Mushrooms, An Introduction Featuring what makes a mushroom a mushroom, mushrooms in ecology, poisonous and edible mushroooms, and many interesting and fascinating mushrooms.
• Bill Yule (Vice President and Education Director, CVMS.): More than 25 years of Mushroom Foraying Bill always gives an engaging talks with great slides on mushrooms and many anecdotes and interesting observations. He has been with CVMS going back to its beginning over 25 years ago and is a naturalist and educator.

There will be 20-minute mushroom walks led by members of the Connecticut Valley Mycological Society, at 2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 3:45, and 4:15 p.m. Music by The SemiLocals will entertain the crowd.

Click here for more information on the Mushroom Festival.

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Picture by Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center