Telluride Mushroom Festival, The Telluride Institute, and Smugglers Brewery are proud to present the official release of their Myco-Infused Beer, the G. Lucid Nut Brown Ale on Wednesday the 19^th of June, 2013. This health-stimulating, handcrafted beer infusion is a toasted walnut brown ale, with roasted malted grains, “dry-hopped” with Reishi fruiting bodies, and infused with immune enhancing medicinal mushrooms.

The G. Lucid Nut Brown Ale represents Telluride Mushroom Festival’s 2^nd annual partnership with Telluride’s Smuggler’s Brewery and Mushroom Mountain out of Liberty, SC. Last year’s myco-infused beer was so popular, it sold out before the festival ended. This year, Smuggler’s brewery is adding the delicious immune boosting beer to the menu year-round. G lucid Nut Brown Ale will be on tap beginning Monday, June 17^th, with an official release on Wednesday the 19^th.  Each beer is $5 and contains one supplemental dose of Reishi tincture. A portion of beer sales will be donated to the Telluride Mushroom Festival.

For 32 years, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has offered a forum for intellectual exploration of the role mushrooms play on Earth. Telluride Mushroom Festival has become America’s most respected celebration of all things mycological. For more information on Smugglers Brewery please visit www.smugglersbrewpub.com.

Recently the mainstream media has been covering the incredibly diverse power of mushrooms. Please click on the links below to read the great articles.
Crusading mycologist Paul Stamets says fungi can clean up everything from oil spills to nuclear meltdowns.
By Kenneth Miller, Friday, May 31, 2013

World’s First House Made of Mushrooms Being Grown in New York
by Yuka Yoneda, 06/03/13

Form and Fungus: Can mushrooms help us get rid of Styrofoam?
by Ian Frazier May 20, 2013

Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers has been a student and teacher of herbal medicine for over 40 years. He is a professional member of AHG, chair of the medicinal mushroom committee of NAMA and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. He presently teaches herbal and mushroom medicine at Grant MacEwan University, the Northern Star College of Mystical Studies, and is assistant professor in family medicine at University of Alberta. He is a fellow of the International College of Nutrition and has authored 14 books on plants and fungi of the boreal forest. He co-hosts the Alberta Herb Gathering on alternate years and is past vice president of the Alberta Mycological Society.
Robert’s latest book is The Fungal Pharmacy: the Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America. His website is www.selfhealdistributing.com He also posts occasionally on facebook, under The Fungal Pharmacy.

Lawrence Millman
Depending on the circumstance, I wear the hat of a mycologist, an Arctic explorer, an ethnographer, and a travel writer.   I’m a Fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club; recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Pearlman, and Northern Lights Awards; and hold a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.   As a mycologist, I’ve studied and/or inventoried fungi in places as diverse as Western Samoa, Iceland, Honduras, Alaska, Costa Rica, Arctic Canada, Belize, and Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   My inventory for Wachusetts Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary in Princeton, Massachusetts, now has more than 525 species.   Likewise, I’ve done ethnomycological work with the Chukchi in Siberia and with the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic.   I don’t own a car, and I keep a post office box in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Published work: I’ve written 16 books, including such titles as Last Places, An Evening Among Headhunters, Lost in the Arctic, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, and — most recently — Hiking to Siberia.   My writing has appeared in such publications as Smithsonian, National Geographic, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, and (not least) Fungi.

Eugenia Bone
Eugenia Bone is a nationally known food journalist and author. Her work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Fine Dining, Martha Stewart Living, Wine Enthusiast, Sunset, The New York Times, and The Denver Post. She is the author of four books. At Mesa’s Edge was nominated for a Colorado Book Award. She wrote Italian Family Dining with her father, celebrated chef Edward Giobbi. Well-Preserved was nominated for a James Beard award, and was on many best books lists. Her current book is Mycophilia: Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms, which was on Amazon’s best science books of 2011 list and was nominated for a Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries award. She is currently at work on her fifth book, a preserving book titled The Kitchen Ecosystem (Clarkson Potter, Spring 2014). Her writing and recipes have been anthologized in a number of publications, including Best Food Writing, Saveur Cooks, The Food & Wine Cookbook, among others. Eugenia has lectured widely in venues like the Denver Botanical Garden and the Museum of Natural History in New York and mycological societies across the country, judged food and wine competitions, and has appeared on television and radio many times. She is the founder of Slow Food Western Slope in Colorado and the president of the New York Mycological Society, which was founded 50 years ago by composer John Cage. Eugenia lives in New York City and Western Colorado. Contact Eugenia through her website, mycophilia.com, or follow her on twitter @eugeniabon

Ticket Prices are:

Individual Discounts

• Young Adult Full Pass Tickets (12-18) are half the Earlybird price per person (available only by snail mail) — a photocopy of some sort of picture ID verifying age will be needed to obtain this discount
• Kids (12 and under) are free
• Earlybird Full Pass Tickets (now until Friday, June 1, 2013) = $150 per person (on-line or by snail mail)
• Pre-event Full Pass Tickets (from Saturday, June 2, to Friday, Aug. 3) = $160 per person (on-line or by snail mail)

Event Price

• Full Pass Tickets (from Saturday, Aug. 4 to Thursday, Aug. 16) = $175 per person. For those who come late to the Shroomfest and have not pre-paid, ticket prices for the remainder of the event will not be negotiable but you can purchase a ticket for individual events.
• For those who want to attend only individual events, individual workshop/lecture/event tickets will be available on site or at the door for between $10 and $25 each.
• There may also be offering some special culinary events this year that the weekend pass will not cover. We will announce those as they are confirmed.

Group Discounts

Half-price Young Adult tickets are not available for group discounts.

• Group Full Pass Tickets (until Saturday, Aug. 4):
• Two People (same payment) = $300 ($150 per person)
• Three People (same payment) = $435 ($145 per person
• Four People (same payment) = $570 ($143 per person
• Five People (same payment) = $700 ($140 per person)
• Six People (same payment) = $810 ($135 per person)

What are you waiting for, get your tickets today!

A personal or business donation to the Telluride Mushroom Festival is a great way to help fund year-round educational programming and outreach in Telluride and beyond. This year’s educational programming includes workshops and classes in the areas of medicinal fungi, remediation and restoration classes, cultivation workshops, culinary and food presentations and fermentation offerings. We are currently offering outreach at middle and high schools, colleges and universities, mycological societies, national events, and governmental institutions.

Your donation to Telluride Mushroom Festival is tax-deductible and paves the way for educational offerings, scholarships for students, and helps start myco-projects in communities around the world.

Please take a look at our website www.shroomfest.com  for more information, or if you are interested in being one of our sponsors contact esculenta@shroomfest.com.

Checks can be mailed to:
Telluride Mushroom Festival
PO Box 1770
Telluride, CO 81435