MYCO-BREWERY
An exhibition bringing together the processes of brewing beer and growing mycelium shown at Mediamatic, Amsterdam in 2016.
The symbiotic nature between brewing and growing mycelium is at the heart of the project; brewing beer produces a waste grain once the sugars have been extracted in the boil, and mycelium needs a substrate to grow on, In this case in the form of a grain, eg. rye. Both have different requirements for the conditions in which the beer can ferment and the mycelium can grow, so the exhibition showcased the flow of resources, mainly grain, between the two processes. The end outputs were beer (yum) and mycelium based insulation panels to be used as part of the regeneration of a building on the Mediamatic site.
The Myco-brewery plays on the words 'micro' meaning small and 'myco' as an abbreviation of mycology, the science of mycelium and fungus.
Fermentation chamber to house the brewing beer in its first phase of fermenation
The inputs and outputs of combining two processes: brewing and growing mycelium
Early prototype: Insulation panel made from waste beer grain and mycelium spawn
