If you Google around awhile, you can see past experiments. Apparently it's not the easiest thing to do (flavor problems, dosage problems), and if you live in Colorado or Washington, the point seems moot anyway.
A beer that will get you drunk and high sounds like a lethal combination, but it could be bubbling up in your neighbor’s garage.
With the move by voters to legalize adult marijuana possession, cultivation and sales in Colorado as part of Amendment 64 Tuesday, the likelihood of pot beer is out of the question for commercial brewers, but already in the works by homebrewers.
On the other hand, this story (which also came via Beer Pulse) suggests that there may be financial possibilities in exotic experiments:
Hair of the Dog Brewing founder and owner, Alan Sprints, shared the news on Facebook that the total yield for two 375ml bottles sold through a silent auction (two separate lots) was $4,525.56. The higher of the two bids was $2,368.73, approximately $187 per ounce of liquid.Dave's an eisbock, and a damned strong one at that. But it contains no active ingredients beyond ethanol. Imagine if it were iridescent with weed.
I think about half the brewers I know have made a pot beer at some point in time, including the latter mentioned in this post.
ReplyDeleteI actually know of extremely diluted ganja beer sold in PDX about 15 years ago. The details of which I shall not divulge.
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