no not the wildly popular prescription opiate, Orange County. Some kind of strange cultural wasteland, where really conservative people act really fucking smug and dismissive when you talk about reforming cannabis laws. Well i want to see the looks on their faces when they lose this culture war an I am legally using a once prohibited plant to brew new types of beer.
I think that is my angle in all this. I want cannabis to be legalized for adults to use, our right to choose what we use as medicine or recreation and all that, but the important thing that nobody realizes, is Beer.
All homebrewers know that cannabis is far superior to hops for flavoring and preserving beer. It's just too expensive to be practical under prohibition. Hops takes two full seasons to produce any flowers while cannabis can be harvested after a few months. There are so many genetic variations within cannabis but up to the present they have all been selected for fiber production (hemp) or psychoactivity. With the legalization of cannabis all of this will change, new strains will be created and traits will be selected for taste and smell in beer. I am looking at sour diesel as a hops substitute. hehehe.
When this legislation passes i'm sure certain brewers will jump on the opportunity and we could see the first cannabis beers within a few months.
cheers
Saturday, October 3, 2009
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