The Best Mushroom Coffee, WIRED Tested and Reviewed (2025)

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• Best Overall

  Atlas Coffee Club

  Atlas+ Latte Superblend

  As its name denotes, Atlas Coffee Club is a subscription-based mail order coffee service. And a darn good one at that! It's also our top pick in our guide to the Best Coffee Subscriptions. So when it announced it was dipping its toes in the dark arts of adaptogen-infused mushroom coffees, we trusted it could deliver the goods without all the superfluous lore and manosphere cosigns that most others come bundled with.

  The starter kit includes a frother and a scoop and comes with your choice of Atlas’ riffs on mushroom coffee: a coffee superblend or a latte superblend. The former is a straightforward take on mushroom-infused instant coffee. The fine powder dissolves quickly, the coffee flavor is muted with a roasty aftertaste, and only the last two sips had any amount of silty residue. If this was all Atlas offered, it would do well enough in this space.

  The latte superblend, on the other hand, is a real treat. Upon my opening the bag, a strong whiff of toasted coconut wafts through the room. The powder emulsifies easily in hot water without any need for a frother. Lacing on the edge of the mug is minimal, and there’s almost no gunky residue or powdery finish to speak of. The flavor of the finished product has a pronounced coconut aroma up front without the requisite sweetness that’s omnipresent in tiki drinks. The swallow offers subtle notes of earthy spice and a soft acidic tang akin to a shot of espresso pulled from Kenyan or Ethiopian beans. It’s an absolute delight to drink.

  After three mornings of Atlas’ latte superblend standing in for my coffee, I found myself wondering if I could permanently replace my morning brew with this delicious powder. The caffeine buzz was smooth and devoid of any mind-rattling peaks, but the probiotics did a number on my stomach on the two final days of the weeklong experiment with this one. I would not pair this with a rich, fatty breakfast loaded with eggs and dairy unless you work from home by yourself all day. Intermittent rangus aside, Atlas Coffee Club struck gold here.

  Score	9.5/10
  Key ingredients	Coffee, coconut milk, functional mushrooms, prebiotics, probiotics, adaptogens, collagen, vitamins
  Caffeine	45 milligrams

• Best Nootropic Cocktail

  Lucid

  Nootropic + Mushroom Coffee

  A cursory scan of the About Us section on Lucid’s website reveals it was founded by what appears to be an extreme sports bro, a DJ, and a former marine. The trio’s aesthetic is a trippy minimalist vibe that’s aligned with the bisexual lighting most Twitch streamers use in their backgrounds, and its marketing leans on a preference for nootropics like alpha-GPC and creatine to kick things up a notch so you can rage or do push-ups all night. One tablespoon mixed with 8 ounces of hot water yields a deep-black liquid, with a slight tingle on the front of the sip and notes of toasted sesame on the finish. It’s nothing to write home about on its own, but lack of dusty mouthfeel and off notes make it supremely drinkable. A splash of Chobani Sweet Cream really brought this cup to life, and a mix of steamed oat milk and agave nectar did wonders as well.

  The upfront effects of Lucid were hard to discern, but the last few days with this pleasant dust were punctuated by an elevated sense of excitement for the rote tasks I carried over from one day's checklist to the next. My girlfriend and I finally cleaned out our attic to make room for some spare boxes of hardwood flooring, and then repetitive schlepping up and down three very tall floors in our 150-plus-year-old house left me invigorated and craving more small domestic victories. I organized the spice drawer after that and felt amazing while doing so.

  Score	8.7/10
  Key ingredients	Lion’s mane, cordyceps, turkey tail, tremella, alpha-GPC, L-theanine, L-tyrosine, creatine, ginkgo
  Caffeine	35 to 45 milligrams

• Best Whole Package and Add-Ons

  Laird Superfood

  Organic Coffee with Functional Mushrooms

  Laird Superfood takes its name from cofounder Laird Hamilton, an infamously aggro big-wave surfer who’s best known for being Kevin Costner’s stunt double in the 1995 clunker Waterworld. Hamilton and his wife, sand volleyball superstar Gabrielle Reece, founded Laird Superfood in 2015 with the mission of helping the wellness-curious “take something [they] do every day and make it better.” I don’t drink protein powder every day, but I do drink enough coffee to drift into space quite often and fantasize about what my life would be like if I had the cojones to get towed by jet ski into a 50-foot wave in Tahiti and hope for the best, like Hamilton did in 2000.

  Laird’s Functional Mushroom Focus coffee is a medium roast that gently tickles the pleasure center of clandestine dark roast freaks, with a hint of smoke on the sip and a gentle numbing tingle on the swallow. It’s a fine coffee on its own, clocking in a few clicks above your average grocery store brand preground medium roast.

  The added protein creamer is a special treat that’s so naughty it feels good. The suggested one-third cup dose filled almost half my trusty Ember mug when I added before the pour, per the bag's instructions, and it clocks in at a whopping 200 calories with 50 percent of your daily saturated fat intake right there. After five seconds of whisking, the off-white powder dissolved almost fully into the coffee, leaving me with a light brown brew loaded with rich notes of vanilla and coconut.

  The tandem of coffee-based caffeine and vegan, soy-free protein (plus 9 grams of sugar) was the kick in the pants I needed to bounce back from over a month of placebo-ing my brain into submission with kooky mushroom dust and heady nootropics. I don’t have any surfing plans on the books at present, but as soon as I do I’ll be sure to pack an Aeropress and the full Laird Superfood kit.

  Score	8.6/10
  Key ingredients	Ground Peruvian coffee beans, lion’s mane, rhodiola
  Caffeine	60 mg to 100 mg

• Best Mushroom-Infused Coffee

  Four Sigmatic

  Organic Coffee

  Four Sigmatic was founded about a decade ago by Finnish-American bohos who had the prescience to market mushroom coffee to woo-woo Angelenos who are rich enough to disregard science. Its catalog is expansive and includes a whole constellation of mushroom-infused ingestibles, with bagged, preground coffee serving as the flagship product alongside instant latte mixes, smoothie add-ins, and “capsules.” Buying from Four Sigmatic is a breeze—no need for subscriptions, kits, or any other nonsense. Just pick out what you want, pay for it, and it shows up on your doorstep a few days later.

  Four Sigmatic’s Focus blend is labeled as a dark roast, but it’s missing the cigarette-butts-and-bowling-alley aftertaste that looms on the finish of similar blends. Despite my preference for lighter beans, this hit like a hug from an old friend after weeks of sipping murky silt. The caffeine buzz normalized after two days of using Think in lieu of more standard shroom-based coffee replacements, so I added a three-quarter-teaspoon hit of the powdered Focus blend to my daily cup to see what would happen. Within 10 minutes I felt an overwhelming urge to sort my finances spreadsheet in preparation for tax season, then I set up a new template in Loopy Pro to accommodate a friend who planned to join my basement jam session that evening. He bailed, but I was jacked on Genius Adaptogens so I played all the instruments myself into the wee hours of the night.

  Score	8.2/10
  Key ingredients	Arabica coffee, log-grown lion’s mane extract, chaga extract.
  Caffeine	50 milligrams

• Smoothest Cup

  Cuppa

  Healthy Mushroom Instant Coffee

  Like the friendly foreigner who calls his daily cup of tea or coffee his “cuppa,” this newcomer is polite, congenial, and inoffensive. The first sip brought to mind a really good cup of coffee at a nameless diner, with a light body and very mellow acidic notes on the swallow. The small dose of ruddy powder pulled from the bag with the included plastic scoop dissolved thoroughly with a few stirs, and the pristine lack of sediment in the cup was exactly as advertised. The boost of energy is also unassuming and easy to relegate to the background, which could be a welcome respite from the blast of caffeine many coffee addicts think they need right when they wake up every morning. After a week with Cuppa I started to enjoy easing into my daily brain vibrations rather than white-knuckling it off the rip at 7 am on the dot every morning.

  Score	7.7
  Key ingredients	Arabica coffee, lion’s mane extract, chaga extract, ashwagandha, MCT/fiber compound, L-Theanine.
  Caffeine	70 milligrams

• Least Gunky

  Micro Ingredients

  Organic Instant 10 in 1 Mushroom Coffee Powder

  The fine brown powder that’s packed tightly into this massive bag has a faint smell of burnt coffee, sort of like that last bit of sludge that’s stuck to the bottom of a Bunn carafe after a long day at a diner. The taste is forgettable and inoffensive. A hat tip to Micro Ingredients is in order for its flawless execution of a product that’s as mid as mid can possibly get: It barely tastes like coffee or mushrooms, yet it gestures toward both and offers the same end result for the user.

  I started with 2 teaspoons of the powder mixed into 8 ounces of hot water with the handheld blender the folks at MUD/WTR so graciously included in its own overengineered box (see below), and it took just a few seconds to realize this level of emulsion is overkill. You won’t need more than a few turns of a common spoon to completely dissolve Micro Ingredients in your cup, and the lack of silty or gunky residue is greatly appreciated after a few sips. I gussied up subsequent cups with 4 ounces of steamed milk and 1 teaspoon of simple syrup for a slightly more gratifying sip, but it tastes fine on its own and would be a decent substitute for coffee on a camping trip or in some sort of emergency. The caffeine content is just a few clicks above a cup of decaf, which makes this a nice late-afternoon pick-me-up for folks who have to take it easy with the real stuff.

  Score	6.8/10
  Key ingredients	Instant Arabica coffee powder, chaga, reishi, lion’s mane, cordyceps, turkey tail, shiitake, mesima, wood ear, oyster mushroom
  Caffeine	Not stated

• Best Alternative to Alternatives

  Rasa

  Original Adaptogenic Mushroom Coffee Alternative

  The aesthetic of Rasa’s packaging, which lands between the decor of a Midwestern strip mall Mediterranean café and a box of Moroccan tea from Trader Joe’s, kinda says it all with this uber-mellow mushroom beverage. Very few discernible flavors hit on the sip, but the finish has slight notes of dates and the mildest suggestion of citrus. The lack of caffeine makes Rasa somewhat of an oddity on this list, but the market for decaf drinks is substantial, and I’m sure plenty of folks who mainline herbal tea all day would relish the opportunity to try something a bit fancier and more exotic than their usual lineup of grass and flowers and essential oils and whatever else they refer to as “tea” these days.

  I started adding steamed oat milk and a couple drops of mint simple syrup to gussy this up toward the end of my week with this one, and I’m all aboard the Rasa train when a chill evening on the couch is what the doctor ordered.

  Score	6.6/10
  Key ingredients	Roasted chicory, acacia fiber, roasted date seed, roasted maca, gynostemma extract, cordyceps fruiting body extract, lion’s mane fruiting body extract, rhodiola extract and eleuthero extract, Arabica coffee, log-grown lion’s mane extract, chaga extract
  Caffeine	0 milligrams

• Best Value

  Max Fit

  Ten Mushrooms Coffee

  The flavor of Ten Mushrooms is remarkably similar to that of Ryze (see below): smoky and savory with a sour finish and a dusty residue. A week with this did little to convince me that mushroom brew is the coffee of the future, but it didn’t offend my sensibilities or my bowels in any notable way. If I were forced to choose between Ten Mushrooms and Ryze, I would choose the former due to its bullshit-free spin on a cottage industry that’s filled with late-stage capitalist trapdoors and other forms of subscription-based chicanery.

  As I write this, a 142-gram bag of Ten Mushrooms is about $10 cheaper than Ryze, and you can buy it instantly on Amazon without navigating several pages of subscriptions, pop-up discount offers, and other digital shakedowns. When the economy crashes and you still need to focus your chakras and conquer your ADHD with mushroom coffee, Jeff Bezos and Ten Mushrooms will be waiting for you with open arms.

  Score	6.3/10
  Key ingredients	Chaga, reishi, lion’s mane, maitake, shiitake, cordyceps, turkey tail, king trumpet, willow bracket, agaricus blazei
  Caffeine	50 milligrams

• Best Pick for Old Hippies

  Melting Forest

  Mushroom Coffee

  When browsing the various mushroom coffees available on the web, I was surprised to find that Melting Forest is the only prominent brand that really leans into the schwilly, post-Jerry ’90s aesthetic associated with a different strain of shrooms. The packaging is a toned-down riff on something one would find in a mall kiosk that sold blacklight posters and grinders until Spencer’s Gifts rolled through and put them out of business. It’s likely the same ex-hippie who does all the design work for Philz Coffee who slapped together Melting Forest’s website. The flavor of this powdered, lightly caffeinated coffee replacement tastes exactly like what you’d imagine to be the ideal brew of a guy who flips out when the barista attempts to rinse out the handmade ceramic blob he brings into his dusty old cafe in Marin at the exact same ungodly hour every morning.

  The upfront taste has a light bitterness that would repel coffee noobs but endear old heads whose tastes have evolved from Folgers to Stumptown and back again. There’s very little grit in the top 80 percent of the cup, but the small bits of silt that linger at the bottom bring the funky, earthy flavor of the mushroom blend to life. Melting Forest plays nice with sweeter alternative milks like Pacific Foods coconut milk or original Silk soy milk. The energy level is a mild tickle of alertness that’s on par with a can of yerba mate or a half-caff Americano. It’s a reliable daily drinker that pairs well with long days of organizing stacks of magazines, working on a VW bus, and haranguing your local NPR affiliate about the lack of jazz fusion in its playlist.

  Score	6.2/10
  Key ingredients	Arabica coffee, organic mushroom fruiting body extract (chaga, lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, maitake, shiitake, turkey tail) organic cacao, Senactiv Rosa roxburghii (fruit) and Panax notoginseng (root), Rhodiolife rhodiola extract, L-Theanine
  Caffeine	Not stated

• Best Mushroom Add-On

  Om

  Master Blend Organic Mushroom Powder

  The bulk of Om’s catalog is billed as “dietary supplements,” so its Master Blend is not exactly the kind of thing you’ll want to drink on its own. I tried this for science, of course, and it wasn’t terrible! There’s a vegetal flavor on the sip that tastes like potato water, and the finish has an astringent tingle that’s akin to the tiniest dose of Sichuan peppercorns steeped in hot water.

  Om really shines when it’s added to a cup of coffee brewed with beans from the Global South. One teaspoon of this sand-colored dust added a savory pop that smoothed out the brightness of my favorite Colombian Supremo beans from Costco, and the requisite jitters that usually kicked in after three cups of the brew felt mellower than usual with Om mixed in. The silty residue at the bottom of the cup is best avoided, but it won’t harsh your vibe too much on the whole.

  Score	5.9/10
  Key ingredients	Lion’s mane, shiitake, turkey tail, himematsutake, antrodia, maitake, king trumpet, cordyceps, reishi
  Caffeine	0 milligrams

• Best Option If You’re Afraid of Flavor

  One could consider two different approaches to how purveyors of mushroom coffee dial in the flavor profile of their product: They can go all in with a bombastic brew filled with spices and overtones, or they can play it safe and concoct the base of a beverage that tastes more like memories of other drinks than a beverage with an identity of its own. The underwhelming flavor of Ryze falls in the latter camp.

  In fairness, there are plenty of folks who have no interest in savoring their morning beverage and instead need to put the liquid inside them as fast as possible so they can “adult” that day. Twenty-one-year-old Pete thought people who claimed to enjoy espresso were insane, yet here I am, two decades later wishing I could sip bitter bean water instead of this sour cup of forgettable swill that curdled the whole milk I tried to cut it with. A week with Ryze did little to boost my mood, focus, or energy. It mostly made me cranky and sad.

  Score	5.2/10
  Key ingredients	Cordyceps, reishi, lion’s mane, shiitake, turkey tail, king trumpet
  Caffeine	48 milligrams

• Best Option for Incontinence

  Everyday Dose

  Mushroom Coffee Starter Kit

  Of all the contenders included in this experiment, Everyday Dose feels the most like a wellness influencer pyramid scheme.

  One month of this fantastical dust promises better sleep and boosted mood. Two months promises a healthy gut, and three months promises glowing skin and boosted immunity. It’s easy to acquire three months of Everyday Dose because its subscription-only model is damn near impossible to cancel. It’s difficult to drink this daily for even a week, though, but best of luck if a guy with an alpha jawline and yacht full o’ thots in Croatia told you otherwise!

  Unlike MUD/WTR (below), which seems to be the closest analog as far as aesthetics and cheekiness go, Everyday Dose boasts a wee bit of caffeine, which is appealing for coffee addicts like yours truly. I first mixed 1 tablespoon of the powder with 8 ounces of hot water and drank it straight up, which yielded an unappetizing liquid that tasted like a mix of Chex Mix and bong water. Some frothed oat milk and a squirt of simple syrup turned out to be the most drinkable form, but I’d be lying if I said I enjoyed any of it. By the end of the week I found myself burning off the slight hit of energy and focus this provided with a 30-minute cardio sesh in my basement followed by five to 10 minutes on the toilet, right on queue every time. People pay money for that type of “regularity,” so I guess that’s something!

  Score	5.1/10
  Key ingredients	Lion’s mane, Chaga, L-Theanine, collagen protein
  Caffeine	45 milligrams

• Not Recommended

  MUD/WTR

  Original Blend (6.4 oz.)

  The packaging of MUD/WTR isn’t quite as unhinged as a bottle of Dr. Bronner's, but it’s definitely in the same realm. The spicy dust inside the can is a maximalist circus of weirdness as well, with herbaceous stalwarts like turmeric and masala chai holding it down alongside the usual shroom suspects. It took me a few days to realize that properly emulsifying this ruddy power per the suggested instructions—1 tablespoon with ¾ cup of water, battered thoroughly with the included handheld immersion blender—is an impossible task, so I started experimenting with supplemental ingredients in hopes that some blend of milk, fat, and sugar would minimize the gritty aftertaste that overwhelms the palate.

  I landed on 1 tablespoon of simple syrup and 4 ounces of whole milk frothed in my trusty Subminimal NanoFoamer Pro. The final result hits somewhere between a chai latte and the kind of hot cocoa you’d order at a coffee shop with boring ’90s music, mean baristas, and a dirty bin full of stale vegan + gluten-free snacks next to the register. I didn’t hate it, but the bottom quarter of the cup is an undrinkable gunky mess. And don’t get me started on the chunky brown lacing that clings to the edge of the cup.

  The physical and mental effects of MUD/WTR felt more like a facsimile of a boost than a visceral kick in the pants, but a placebo high is better than nothing, right? Combine that with the amount of adjunct ingredients required to make this drinkable and I ended up with a beverage I would only drink every now and then as a treat on a chilly day rather than a daily sipper I can rely on for increased focus, energy, virility, and the million other things this product promises within the wall of text that adorns its packaging.

  Score	4.2/10
  Key ingredients	Masala chai, cacao, lion’s mane, cordyceps, chaga, reishi, cinnamon, turmeric, Himalayan salt.
  Caffeine	35 milligrams