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They say it hits you fast.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/22/it-hits-you-very-quickly-canada-brews-first-cannabis-beer
With Canada legalizing weed, it most certainly will affect our northern border with them. I am sure the current regime is already planning. It will be another border like Mexico. Can't build a wall though, it is 1000's of miles.
True Dough
(17,304 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Mmmmmmm
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Our proposal is expected to easily.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)smoke good pot?
Good hops serve a purpose for beer.
Good pot serves a purpose that doesn't need the beer.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I think that is a good reason to wonder.
Beer is not beer without malt.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)My husband has been brewing beer for over a decade.
One of the homebrew club we are members of tends to be very experimental. Another tends to be more traditional. A few of our homebrew friends have gone on to become head brewers.
hunter
(38,311 posts)Both are members of the Cannabaceae family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabaceae
It's likely cannabis shares many of the same properties that makes hops useful in brewing.
Hops weren't originally added to beer simply for the flavor, they increased the reliability of the brewing process.
Before hops became the standard, other plants (called gruits) were used, including medicinal herbs.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)I think this is more about the novelty than about making a good beer.
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)Brewing with hops produces the desired bitterness, and dry pitching hops during fermentation produces the 'nose' and flavor.
And there is a buzz in the brewing realm: pot flavors and smells can complement hops:
Lagunitas Brewing Co. last week (Aug 2017) released its SuperCritical Ale, a hoppy beer that is brewed with terpenes, aromatic compounds of essential oils that are extracted from some plants, including cannabis and hops. The brew, available only in select California locations for a limited time, contains no THC, the chemical that triggers psychoactive effects.
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In an interesting departure from beer, A Lagunitas Brewing Co press release announced last month an 'IPA-inspired' hopped sparkling water infused with THC:
Lagunitas Brewing Company, makers of beers like the 420-nodding Waldos' Special Ale and SuperCritical, a non-psychoactive beer made with cannabis terpenes, has announced it's officially getting into the cannabis game for real. Its new venture is an IPA-inspired sparkling water infused with THC.
Per a press release, the beverage, called Hi-Fi Hops, is a collaboration with CannaCraft's AbsoluteXtracts (also a collaborator on SuperCritical). It will be available in two dosages: one with 10 mg of THC and the other with 5 mg of THC and 5 mg of CBD.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)brooklynite
(94,535 posts)I drink beer for the flavor profile of grain, malt and hops. Additives don't make it better.
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)making the cannabis beer.
They could call it Bud-Plus, because why do you think they call them taste BUDS?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Mendocino
(7,488 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)The local brewery there had a hemp beer back in the 90's.
It was only okay. Not the worst beer but definitely not the best. Hemp is for getting high not drunk.