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Best way to incorporate MJ into my home brewed beer

Thomas Davie

Thomas Davie

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I make beer, both from kits and whole grains. I now want to make weed beer, but have absolutely no idea of how to go about it.

-boiling in the wort?
- dry hopping in a mesh sock with a glass marble weighing it down?
-make the weed into an alcohol tincture and add to the beer before bottling?
-add an extract to the secondary fermenter?
-use lecithin as emulsifier?

The average batch I bottle is around 50-60 12 ounce bottles or 28ish 1 litre bottles. Ideally I would like ~40 mg THC per beer. That way, if I have 5 beer on a Friday evening I'm only going to be hit with 200 mg. Or 1 will give me a nice buzz for mowing the lawn.

So, @ 40 mg THC per 12 oz beer I'm looking at 2000 - 2400 mg THC for 50-60 beer. The MJ I'm looking at using is 22% Wt THC, so I would need 9.9 - 10.9 g weed. I figure I'm not going to get 100% efficiency or whatever, so I'll bump it up by 20% to 11-13 g.

If I could get 40 mg THC into a 12 ounce beer I'd be in heaven.

Has anyone made weed beer that worked?

thanks for any info.

Tom

(I figure I'm going to be drinking and smoking at the same time, so why not)
 
i've never tried it but if i were to just giv'r i figure i'd do a long ISO wash to pick up chlorophyll for colour, followed by quick decarb in the oven then tincturize with ethanol then test it in some store-bought beer and if it works as expected add it to the homebrew at bottling time.
 
^Wouldn't the ISO wash pull out the cannabinoids? I always wash my grinder with ISO when I wana pull all the kief out of the screen.
 
Back in 1998, my ex fiancee made a sour cherry imperial stout. A 20 litre batch, and when it was in the secondary fermenter she added 2 oz weed and 5 lbs sour cherries.

It was a staggeringly sour beer (among other things, she forgot to remove the pits from the cherries) and strong as hell. But zero buzz (from the weed).

I like the idea of a tincture, because I know the THC is alcohol soluble, but I don't know what's going to happen to the solubility when a small amount of concentrated alcohol tincture hits the larger watery mass of the about to be bottled beer.

Another possibility I thought of was using a high oil fat seed/grain as an adjunct when brewing (boiling I mean). Canola isn't used in beer, corn is (usually tastes like crap in my opinion).

@ Cream Gravy? (helluva name by the way :)) I might do a quick, cold ISO wash (if Thujone was meaning removal pf the chlorophylls).....I'm looking at making a dark brown ale, so it's going to be cloudy/murky anyways. Fruit/wheat beers are another possibility for this.

I wonder if dry hopping would transfre any of the terpenes into the beer (flavorwise that would be interesting).

Tom
 
The primary effects from herb are due to compounds, which are not water soluble. Making a hash liquor would be the way to do it. Any more data than that would be proprietary;)
 
Thanks for the idea of hash liquor. I was planning on making either a double IPA or a big Chrismassy barleywine which should cover up any strong tastes.

Tom
 
I'm not an expert on beer, but I heard hops and herb are closely related plants.What might happen if you used decarbed cannabis in the place of hops?
 
iksaxophone said:
I'm not an expert on beer, but I heard hops and herb are closely related plants.What might happen if you used decarbed cannabis in the place of hops?
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My ex used dried (not decarbed) MJ in a batch of beer. She used it as hops and it didn't work - probably because of the solubility of the THC.

I'm also wondering if there is anywhere I could buy terpenes in solution; this would be an easy way of getting 'taste' into the beer.

thanks for the reply and idea

Tom
 
You can buy terps(short path distillation extraction) on the Internet, because they contain no thc. Just make sure you are getting cannabis terps. Expect to pay $75-100+ for a gram... Or make them yourself?
 
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