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Roasted Citrus Drinks for Winter
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By Will Maupin
January has always been a month for new beginnings and self-improvement, and for many it’s a month for sobriety. In recent years the “Dry January” trend has taken off as people around the nation and world commit to spend the entirety of the first month of the year away from alcohol.
The trend has officially become a cultural phenomenon as evidenced by the fact that it’s been commercialized — by a beer company of all things. Heineken offered 31-packs of their non-alcoholic beer for this year’s consumers who couldn’t fully give up beer during their Dry January.
There are better ways to stay sober, from alcohol, this month than drinking non-alcoholic beer. Since this is the Green Zone section, you already know we’re talking about weed.
If you’re looking to take Dry January to the extreme and avoid all intoxicants, not just alcohol, you might want to turn to CBD for some help. The National Institute on Drug Addiction at the National Institutes of Health reported on a 2018 study that showed CBD can be helpful in the prevention of relapse.
CBD has long been hailed for its calming and anti-anxiety properties, which alone would be helpful for someone turning away from booze this month. Combine it with a scientific study showing that CBD helps prevent relapse and you would be foolish not to consider adding CBD supplements to your daily routine. Even if you’re not an alcoholic, giving up booze can be hard. Make it a little easier with CBD.
But what if you’re looking to just cut out the booze but not the weed? Don’t worry, you can still drink and get high at the same time.
The days of smelly, stale brownies are long gone thanks to books like Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails & Tonics: The Art of Spirited Drinks and Buzz-Worthy Libations by Warren Bobrow. Amateur mixologists can whip up crazy fancy drinks with cannabis at their home bar while leaving the liquor on the shelf.
If you’re not a master drink-maker, fear not. Cannabis-infused beverages, which are sold at nearly every weed store around, make things easy.
In our Nov. 8, 2018, edition of the Inlander, writer Tuck Clarry and local bartender Chaeliegh Baucom put together a recipe for the “Fore-Twenty.” It’s a simple twist on the classic Arnold Palmer using cannabis-infused Ray’s Lemonade instead of the traditional stuff. Check it out here. ♦
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Winter Punch Antilles du Saka
Cannabis Cocktail master Warren Bobrow brings in the new year with a New Year’s day winter punch created with the award winning Saka Pink, and we are all looking forward to tasting it!
Photo Credit: Cocktails de L’Apothicaire By Warren Bobrow
Saka Pink was carefully selected as the perfect mixer for this wonderfully well balanced sipper.It should be served ideally in a coupe glass, which you may remember also used to be used for Champagne.If you are still using them for Champagne, STOP NOW!Only use it for this cocktail.For Champagne, use a Burgundy glass.. much, much better.
Photo Credit: Traci Seville
Saka New Year’s Punch Made even more effervescent with Fruitations Tangerine Syrup and Pickett’s Ginger Beer
RECIPE
Ingredients:
1 750 ml bottle of Saka— THC Infused-dealcoholized Napa Valley wine
6 oz. Fruitations Pure Natural Tangerine Simple Syrup
4- 12 oz. Cans of Ginger Beer- I used Pickett’s – it’s Authentic and in a can!
10 shakes of Fee Brothers Lime Bitters
Grilled orange slices
Prep: For a crowd
Add all the liquid ingredient (except for the ginger beer) into a punch bowl Mix carefully and completely Add a block of ice Add the Ginger Beer fizzy soda Add the lime bitters Add the grilled orange slices Stir again and serve to a very thirsty crowd
TRACI@TRACILANE.COM
What would you say if I told you that wine (ok, to be quite fair, it’s wine with a very little w…, because there is no alcohol in the wine!) was in this case, infused with a very rapid onset THC? Would you be as intrigued as I am? In this case, if you live in or near Southern California, you can purchase a bottle and try it for yourself. Because Saka is unlike your usual quaff, and there is no hangover! This is a “highly” sophisticated cannabis infused beverage for the discerning cannabis aficionado who also loves fine wine.
Saka is unlike anything I have tasted on the market, at least in the realm of THC infused beverages. This is really good stuff that also gets you quite buzzed and fast!
It’s so good that I created a lovely holiday punch using this quite delicious “Mock”tail.
Celebrate Halloween with MagicalButter’s Cannabis Bloody Mary
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGICALBUTTER.COM
I’m a massive fan of the Bloody Mary cocktail. After all, I have a brilliant version of the classic in my book, Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails and Tonics. My Bloody is made with a national brand of tomato juice that happens to have clam broth added to the mix. I think that nautical element is essential to a well treated Bloody. Up in Canada, they call this version, a Bloody Caesar. This gruesome-to-think-about-named-slurp really does taste differently than the more Americanized version, but I digress. Whatever way or with whichever recipe you enjoy this beverage is up to you. The following recipe, like my own, has a healthy dose of THC in it. MagicalButter, the world’s first countertop botanical extractor designed for creating recipes infusing the essence of healthy herbs, uses a tincture which is a fool-proof way of adding THC to just about any drink. I usually infuse the THC into the spirits or the juices, better balance that way in the mixology realm. You should drink it as you desire. The following recipe is pretty darned delicious and you can do it very easily with the MagicalButter MB2e machine. Go to it! Never more than one per hour because this recipe makes you enjoy life in a different way. Happy Halloween! Cheers! Wb
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGICALBUTTER.COM
Raki is an all-purpose, age-old remedy for any and every occasion. The signature sweetened, anise-flavoured drink of Turkey is “the go-to spirit for celebrating a promotion or a birthday or for muting the pain of a job loss or the end of a relationship,” notes an article on CNN Travel.
As Canadians celebrate legalization 2.0, raki is also the recommended choice for a THC infusion, Bosporus cocktail. “The infused mix is delicious and gets you stoned without anyone smelling anything—it’s a non-confrontational way to consume cannabis,” Warren Bobrow, known as the Cocktail Whisperer in the hospitality industry, tells The GrowthOp.
Mixologist, bartender and contributing writer for Forbes, Bobrow is the author of, among other books, Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails & Tonics: The Art of Spirited Drinks and Buzz-Worthy Libations.
His only piece of advice: “The cannabis strain that you use must not be CBD. In my opinion, CBD is useless; I don’t work with hemp, either. It does nothing other than lighten your pocketbook,” he says.
We spoke to three cannabis influencers on how to bring cannabis to the dinner table.
Gin & Juice with a canna-twist
With the simplest of ingredients, one can make a delicious canna-punch. Warren Bobrow, the Cocktail Whisperer, says the key ingredient in his take on the classic Gin and Juice is the orange juice made with roasted oranges. The botanical gin, says Bobrow, “acts as a guide dog, if you will, for the THC. It’s really lovely!”
Ingredients
2 oz. botanical gin of your choice, with 0.25 g of THC-rich cannabis
4 oz. roasted orange juice
2 oz. ginger beer syrup (Bobrow uses Pickett’s)
4 oz. club soda
Fee Brothers Cardamom Bitters
Directions
- Heat the cannabis in a 240 degree F oven for 45 minutes. Cool and set aside.
- Add cannabis and the botanical gin to an iSi whipped cream maker.
- Force two or three Nitrous oxide (N2O) cartridges into the cannabis and the gin. Strain and set aside.
- Add the ginger beer syrup.
- Float roasted orange juice on top.
- Finish with 4 oz. club soda.
- Stir well and dot with Fee Brothers Cardamom Bitters.
For a final finish, Bobrow suggests a celebratory swizzle.
11 am Saturday, June 8, at Good Luck Restaurant
50 Anderson Ave, Rochester, NY 14607
What’s the difference between CBD and THC, and how are each usable in the cocktail world? Taste the difference in this hands-on workshop! Warren Bobrow will demonstrate with infusions, seltzers, bitters and Pickett’s Ginger Beer Syrup. Sponsored by El Buho mezcal.
Warren Bobrow, the Cocktail Whisperer, is the multi-published author of Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today, Whiskey Cocktails: Rediscovered Classics and Contemporary Craft Drinks, Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails: Restorative Vintage Cocktails, Mocktails & Elixirs, Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails & Tonics: The Art of Spirited Drinks & Buzz-Worthy Libations and his celebrated, 2017 release, The Craft Cocktail Compendium.