\u201cBeer\u201d is a popular drink, usually (but not always!) alcoholic, made from fermented grain. A \u201cgrain\u201d is the seed or the fruit of a plant that\u2019s used for food. In this way, a soybean is a \u201cgrain\u201d as much as a grain of rice or some barley is grain. Many edible things, then, can qualify as a grain, and thus the starting material for beer \u2014 so why not the seeds, stalks, and\u00a0fiber of the cannabis plant? It may come down to the meaning of words and an exercise in semantics, but this is the basis for what\u2019s an understandably bold claim: The first-ever true \u201cmarijuana beer.\u201d<\/p>\n
There have been multiple examples of cannabis-related\u00a0beer on the market.\u00a0There\u2019s been an American brown ale brewed with hemp seeds<\/a>, there\u2019s been \u2014 thanks to a quirk in California law, banning the mixture of THC and alcohol in the same glass \u2014\u201cIPA-inspired sparking water,\u201d with CBD and\/or THC added<\/a>. But until now, there has not been a true cannabis-derived beer.<\/p>\n Until now! The beer produced by Province Brands, a small startup company in Toronto, is actually brewed with cannabis as \u201cthe grain,\u201d rather than a later additive (not unlike hops, a resinous, trichome-producing plant similar to cannabis sativa that is used to give various beers their distinctive flavors ). We use \u201cthe grain\u201d here loosely, as the brewers aren\u2019t bothering with either the cannabis plant\u2019s seeds or its flower.<\/p>\n \u201cOur beer,\u201d said Dooma Wendschuh, the company\u2019s co-founder and CEO, \u201cis brewed from the stalks, stem, and roots of the cannabis plant.\u201d Or, as he pointed out, waste material that most growers otherwise discard.<\/p>\n As The Guardian reported<\/a>, numerous companies across Canada are, like Province Brands, trying to figure out new, fresh, and otherwise unplumbed angles ahead of Oct. 17, when recreational marijuana sales begin in the country.<\/p>\n As the Miami native, who moved to Canada in 2016 specifically to cash in on the cannabis craze sweeping the country, put it: \u201cThe idea came from thinking, can we create something that can serve the role that alcohol serves in our society, and can we do that using this monumental sea change that is happening in our world right now?\u201d<\/p>\n There are already a host of companies \u2014 with licenses from Health Canada \u2014 that produce marijuana flower, marijuana oil, and other \u201cnormal\u201d cannabis products. But one commonly seen cannabis product \u2014 edibles \u2014 won\u2019t be legal in Canada until a year later, according to the Guardian. This gives companies like Province at least some time to fine-tune flower alternatives.<\/p>\n For many, \u201cbeer,\u201d and alcohol in general, appear to be obvious arenas in which to open up a cannabis front. For one, beer \u2014 and alcohol in general \u2014 are popular intoxicants. Cannabis is also a popular intoxicant. There are some of us who believe that alcohol\u2014like\u00a0beer<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and cannabis go well together. \u201cSo why not,\u201d the reasoning goes, \u201call together at once \u2014 in the same bottle or glass?!\u201d<\/p>\n Liability and law, for one. Province Brand\u2019s cannabis beer is beer, but it does not have alcohol. It does have\u00a0THC<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 about 6.5 milligrams of THC per bottle, or about half of a recommended single-serving. (This, too, is a point of much contention, but for most people, 10 milligrams is a good benchmark.)<\/p>\n It took some trial-and-error \u2014 early prototypes of cannabis beer \u201ctasted like rotten broccoli,\u201d said Wendschuh \u2014 but the result is \u201ca non-alcoholic, gluten-free beer that offers a high.\u201d<\/p>\n And, if this ambitious entrepreneur has his way, the first step towards real \u201ccannabis breweries.\u201d<\/p>\n TELL US<\/strong>, have you ever tried a cannabis drink?<\/p>\n The post Canadian Company Boasts World\u2019s First \u2018True\u2019 Cannabis Beer<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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