No coffee involved
Mushroom matcha, for people who don't like coffee
By Brewlune · Updated September 1, 2026
Mushroom matcha is exactly what it sounds like: ceremonial matcha blended with functional mushroom extracts, for people who want the ritual and the mushrooms without the coffee. It is not mushroom coffee's little sibling — matcha carries its own caffeine (gentler, leaf-bound), its own flavor (grassy, a little savory), and it skips the roast entirely.
Brewlune's version is Glassy: ceremonial-grade matcha at 40mg caffeine, with 500mg of lion's mane and 400mg of cordyceps militaris per serving — both fruiting-body extracts, every number printed on the front of the bag.
What is mushroom matcha, exactly?
A definition worth being precise about: mushroom matcha is powdered green tea (matcha) blended with concentrated mushroom extracts — most often lion's mane and cordyceps, the two associated with focus and steady energy in the early research. Because matcha is whisked whole rather than brewed and discarded, the mushroom extracts ride along in the cup rather than staying in a filter. The caffeine is the leaf's own: there is no added caffeine in Glassy, and none removed — 40mg is what the matcha carries.
How does it compare to mushroom coffee?
Three differences, all checkable. Flavor: matcha is grassy and a little savory where coffee blends are roasted and bitter — if coffee is the thing you are avoiding, no coffee blend solves that. Caffeine: Glassy's 40mg sits just below the coffee blends' 45–95mg range, closer to a green tea than an espresso. Mushrooms: Glassy carries the same lion's mane and cordyceps species as our coffee blends, at doses printed the same way — so choosing matcha over coffee costs nothing in disclosed mushroom content.
Glassy vs MUD\WTR matcha: the honest comparison
MUD\WTR's matcha (per their own product page, checked September 1, 2026) runs 55mg caffeine per serving with four mushrooms — reishi, lion's mane, cordyceps, and chaga at 750mg each — plus spices. Credit where due: they list per-mushroom amounts, which most of the category does not. The material difference is extract type. Their page states the mushrooms are grown as "both the mycelial biomass and fruiting bodies," cultured on organic oats and sorghum — meaning grain is part of what is weighed. Brewlune's extracts are fruiting body only, no mycelium on grain, which is why 500mg of lion's mane on our label means 500mg of mushroom extract, not mushroom-and-substrate.
And if you want zero caffeine at all?
Then matcha is the wrong tool — the leaf always carries some. That is what Last Light is for: an evening cacao with no added caffeine (just cacao's 2–10mg trace), reishi and chaga, and 200mg of elemental magnesium as glycinate. Between Glassy and Last Light, the coffee-avoider's day is covered at both ends without a single roasted bean.
MUD\WTR figures per their own product page, checked September 1, 2026. Glassy's full placard is on the Glassy product page, its doses alongside every other blend on the dosage comparison page, and the evening no-caffeine option is Last Light.
