These quality imported Amanita muscaria dried closed caps are beautiful mushrooms with a pleasant aroma.  Apon arrival at Somasupplies, the mushrooms are promptly vacuum packed and stored at 0F in darkness to preserve their wholesome compounds and provide conditions for slow, very efficient solid-state decarboxylation that increases potency over time. Only in these conditions will vacuum packed amanita actually increase in potency. Ibotenic acid slowly decarboxylates and at 0F, the muscimol product accumulates more than at other storage temperatures. If stored at 68F, more Ibotenic acid decarboxylates, but less muscimol product accumulates. They lose potency.
 
Most mushrooms bioaccumulate heavy metals. Extracting your mushrooms in acidified water will extract more heavy metals than using pH neutral water. Ibotenic acid and muscimol are both very water soluble and easily extracted into water. Steeping powdered amanita 5-10 min in 200F water is enough. Some stirring is helpful. Steeping whole mushrooms or mushroom pieces yields less actives than steeping powder.
 
While it is possible to make a concentrated paste extract, evaporating off teh water with heat will degrade a lot of or even almost all of the muscimol. Muscimol more stable than Ibotenic acid, but muscimol is still a reactive, unstable compound. A is possible the pastes will be active, but it will cost you a lot of muscimol in the process. Important note, muscarine, a toxin, is very thermally stable. It will not degrade during a concentration step. Muscimol will degrade. So, you are increasing the ratio of muscarine to muscimol in the final product. Negative side effects from muscarine toxicity are more likely using paste concentrates than mushroom tea.