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One of the online places I buy stuff from is having a sale on hemp. Anyone here ever used hemp in their beer instead of or in addition to hops?
I don't mean to snarky, but I really wonder why hemp would be used in beer. Is it for flavor (which seems doubtful)? Or for extra "high"? I guess I don't see the point.Well, there's hemp & there's hemp.
Last Spring Zymurgy published an article about Marijuana Infusion in Homebrew. I couldn't & didn't wait to try it out. As Colorado has legal Marijuana I dived right in. The process in the article was tedious so after the 1st batch I innovated a far easier technique.
I brewed the Cream of 3 Crops cream ale & added the results of my revised method. It was a great beer & the Infusion was quite effective. The beer was christened "If You Might Have To Pee In A Cup, Don't Drink This Beer".
The article obviously spurred several letters to the editors, both for & against. Mine was a for. Innovation is the hallmark of Home Brewing & this just another ingredient with its own contributions to the world of brewing. Not so different from Coffee & Chocolate. Combining 2 of our favorite things with another.
I don't expect the macro brews to climb on the bandwagon & that's OK with me.
That's interesting, I did the math on marijauna beer a couple years ago when it legalized in Canada and it added a ton of additional cost to a keg so we decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Bong water aghhhhh!I’ve never used hemp because I tasted a hemp beer once and almost spit it back up. Kind of like sweet, hoppy bong water. Of course, that’s my pallet. YMMV. I would recommend tasting one before you commit, just to make sure that’s the direction you want to go.
Smoked It instead....That's interesting, I did the math on marijauna beer a couple years ago when it legalized in Canada and it added a ton of additional cost to a keg so we decided it wasn't worth the effort.
I could be wrong but I would assume that at least some would be into the dankness of it. I like dank hoppy beers and I think hemp adds some of that and more. I know New Belgium has a hemp beer and it is super dank. Like opening a huge bag of skunk weed dank. There's no thc and that's why I was willing to try it. Not bad, but way to much for me. As someone else posted above, I also felt it added a bunch of sweetness.I don't mean to snarky, but I really wonder why hemp would be used in beer. Is it for flavor (which seems doubtful)? Or for extra "high"? I guess I don't see the point.
A few years ago a beer was introduced with caffeine. I had the same question. What's the point? The beer was a flop and no one bought it.
Don't worry about the glycerin. It's unnecessary at our scaleThe Food Grade Glycerine for transferring oil based flavors to beer might be helpful to know in the future. Does it have to be in alcohol first and then mix in the glycerine? I would guess you keep the boil time to a minimum to keep from volatilizing the oils, or add at shutoff.