Cocktail Whisperer
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.
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
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
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
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.
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!”
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
For a final finish, Bobrow suggests a celebratory swizzle.
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.
Beverage connoisseurs will delight in Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails & Tonics, an informative collection of cannabis cocktails and medicinal drinks that, when released, was a top selling book at Tales of the Cocktail (the largest cocktail festival in the world). Mixologist Warren Bobrow, the author of a handful of other cocktail recipe books and creator of the blog The Cocktail Whisperer, artfully pairs the fascinating science behind cannabis chemistry with detailed instructions on how to make stimulating tonics, bitters, syrups, herbal infusions, and more to create a book that any drink and cannabis enthusiast would be excited to check out.
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Repeal Day.
Just the very mention of the word “repeal” suggests setting something behind, to leave it in the past, and what better day to leave something in the past than December 5, or Repeal Day, which celebrates the day Prohibition ended and the modern age of drinking really began.