Chaga Tea Bags:

1. Bring one cup (8 oz) of water to boil in a metal, glass or ceramic stovetop safe dish.
2. Add the tea bag and steep covered for at least 5 minutes. For a richer brew, steep or simmer for at least 15 minutes.
3. Enjoy 1-3 cups per day.

Loose Chaga Tea:

1. Use 2 tsp of loose chaga tea in a reusable muslin tea bag per 1 cup of water.
2. Steep until a rich black color develops, around 15 minutes.
3. Enjoy 1-3 cups per day. Do not consume leftover Chaga pulp.

Chaga Chunks:

• Click here for a full instructional.
• Click here to watch the video.

• Use 1 tea bag per cup (8oz) of water. In a stove-top safe, metal, ceramic, or glass dish.
• Add your water and one Birch Boys Wild Reishi Tea bag.
• Bring to a boil, then remove from heat and steep for 15 minutes.
• Serve and enjoy 1-3 cups per day.

There is a lot of controversy about this in the fungi-world. The short answer is that it's best to brew chaga at a simmer. However, please do not dispose of chaga tea that has boiled, it is perfectly usable and healthy. While boiling can degrade some of the healing constituents of chaga, many beneficial constituents remain. If your chaga tea boils, don't fret! Drink it down/use it up, and be more careful of the temperature next time you brew.

Our recommendation is to brew chaga the way you feel most comfortable. The crock pot method or a gentle simmer for 15 minutes works very well for most people. If you'd like to be extra cautious, you can use a thermometer to ensure that your brew remains below 178 degrees F. If you would rather not have to worry about it at all, then try our ChagaNOW!

How do we brew our chaga at the shop? We brew at 178 degrees (F) to preserve ALL of the constituents in our chaga. If your chaga tea has been boiled. It's still usable, beneficial and worth drinking.

Each person's tastebuds are unique. To the overwhelming majority of people, chaga tea has a very mild, earthy-sweet flavor. For some people, chaga tea tastes like nothing at all, or like water.

There are also those who say that chaga tastes like dirt. In truth, high quality chaga will not taste like dirt. If it "tasted like dirt," it may be that it was dead/decomposing chaga picked from a dead tree. Click to read more about the top ten chaga misconceptions.

Yes, chaga tea can be added to coffee in a myriad of ways. Here's how!

Brew tea from chaga chunks, wild chaga tea bags, or loose chaga tea and use that chaga tea in place of water when you make your coffee. 

Use our super easy wild chaga extract powder, ChagaNOW, and add a scoop to your coffee for a super-boosted morning beverage. 

Add 4mL of Birch Boys Chaga Tincture to your coffee. 

The general rule is that you can drink up to three 8oz glasses of chaga tea per day. However, each product has different concentrations, so heed the recommended serving size on the product box.

Be responsible with your chaga consumption, you know what they say about too much of a good thing!

Click the link to learn all about chaga's warnings, side effects, interactions and more. 

Yes! Chaga tea is fantastic iced. Keeping iced chaga tea in the fridge is a great way to make it even easier to get your chaga in. Try this delicious Chaga Thai Iced Tea Recipe. 

Chaga Tea will keep for up to 2 weeks in the fridge, but is best if consumed within one week.

Yes! All of our products are gluten-free.

Yes! Birch Boys Teas are vegan. All of our products, except for the skin cream (which contains beeswax,) are vegan.

Chaga Tea can be kept in the fridge for up to two weeks, although it is best if consumed within one week. You can also freeze chaga tea for extended use. Try making chaga tea ice cubes to add to beverages and iced coffee.

In MOST locations, the answer is no. You cannot brew chaga in an instant pot. At average elevations, pressure cookers and instant pots do not get hot enough, nor pressurized enough, to brew chaga effectively. Brewing chaga in an instant pot would result in an incredibly weak brew, that doesn't contain the benefits of chaga. 

The only places that an Instant Pot would work to brew Chaga is in certain places in Chile, China or Afghanistan due to their specific elevations. Even then, I would still recommend the tried and true methods of crock pot or stovetop brewing. 

Unused: To store unused chaga chunks, just keep them in the bag that we shipped them to you in, and store in a cool, dry location. You can also repackage them into a jar or container of your liking. 

Used: To store used chaga chunks, package them in a plastic or reusable bag, and store them in the freezer until you are ready to reuse them.

Yes, you can reuse chaga chunks! As a natural material, each chaga chunk will have a slightly varying lifespan. In general most chaga chunks can be used 2-4 times before becoming spent. 

You'll know if your chaga chunk is spent because it will no longer darken the water when brewed. 

Make sure to freeze chaga chunks after the first use so that you can get the most out of your chunks!

Please don't throw your chaga chunks in the trash! Spent chaga chunks can be used for a myriad of things.

• You can dry them out and use them as tinder/kindling when building a fire. 
• You can compost them in at-home or commercial compost.
• You can toss them in your yard, or bury them near a plant that you'd like to boost.

No, do not eat raw chaga. Raw chaga, as well as leftover chaga chunks/pulp/particulate, is not suitable for ingestion. Consuming chaga in this manner has resulted in 3 instances of severe, adverse effects. 

Chaga is very hard, so eating a chunk would not be easy. Because of this hardness, ingesting ground chaga is very harsh on the mouth and gut. Eating raw chaga can lead to kidney issues. Read more about Chaga's Warnings here.

Think about it like bone broth, you drink the healing broth - you don't eat the hard, inedible bone!

ChagaNOW and Chaga Tincture are made from the same fungus, but are very different products. ChagaNOW and Chaga Tea are both single extracts (aka teas). Chaga Tincture is a liquid dual-extract (hot water and alcohol extraction.)

ChagaNOW and Chaga Tea give your body access to antioxidants (including fungal melanin), polysaccharides and polyphenols. 

Chaga Tincture is mroe full spectrum and gives your body access to antioxidants, polysaccharides, polyphenols, triterpenes, sterols, lignin and more! Chaga Tincture offers the most benefits from chaga.

Double or dual extracts are the best, most bioavailable way to consume fungi, click to read more about chaga tea vs chaga tincture or the purpose of alcohol in our tinctures. 

Yes! Chaga pairs well with many ingredients, both from a medicinal perspective as well as a flavor perspective. You can pair chaga with almost anything, but here's a few pairings that are absolutely sublime, 

• Chaga and maple
• Chaga and cinnamon
• Chaga and cocoa/chocolate
• Chaga and chai/chai spices
• Chaga and coconut
• Chaga and Mint
• Chaga and Vanilla

Our Chaga Spiced Cider is stunningly delicious! Click to check out all of our recipes!

To clean your reusable muslin tea bag, just follow these simple steps

• After brewing, turn your resuable tea bag inside out and compost/discard leftover pulp.
• Rinse well with water
• Set to dry completely

Every 2-3 uses, or if you brewed in dairy or a dairy alternative, use a drop of dish soap and rinse as usual.

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 If you use our recycling program, your jars or bottles and droppers will be commercially cleaned and reused in future batches of our products. 

If you recycle them yourself through your local recycling program, the glass will be melted down to make new glass. 

The choice is up to you. What's important is that you recycle them rather than throwing them away.

 Click here to read about our free recycling program for ChagaNOW jars and Mushroom Tincture bottles/droppers.

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