Cocktail Whisperer
The holiday season is often a time of reflection where we look back on the year and contemplate our accomplishments. The cannabis industry is no different. As 2019 comes to a close, the cannabis award season is in full bloom, with multiple events and organizations taking the time to honor excellence in the industry.
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.
I’ve never owned a bubbler. Sure I’ve smoked from them a couple times, ok so maybe that’s not entirely true about owning one. I’ve gazed at them on the inter-webs and in “head” shops, I did smoke a Marley Natural Bubbler out on the coast and it made quite an impression on me. They are not inexpensive tools, but the best smoking accoutrement rarely are. Simple devices such as the Marley Natural Bubblermake their way into my life and charm me and my lungs.
Not only can you see my incredible 5 Questions for Forbes Vices! here but you can also go to the source!! Click link below.
Cheers!!
The Hall of Flowers, held twice per year in Santa Rosa, California acted as my muse bringing together the best and the brightest to my trained palate. But don’t take it from me directly, you simply must travel to California yourself and take the journey. As I found covering the craft spirits business and writing six books on the topic, there are different levels of good. A couple weeks ago I led a panel at the Berlin Bar Convent for Park Street University on Cannabis Cocktails. The consensus at the end of the panel was encouraging. High quality craft spirits manufacturers are genuinely intrigued by the combination of their excellent craft spirits and the addition of hemp based CBD. Unfortunately here in the USA, even the mere reference to THC is much more oblique. Through marketing, anything can be invented. Just look at the worm in Mezcal. If you ate one of these things please contact me. And if you drink rum based on the color of the liquid in that expensive bottle, you’ve been hoodwinked again. Most of what you pay extra for has been caramel colored. Oh gosh, why would they do that? Because there are no rules in rum! Rhum? Well that’s another story for another day. They have rules, but you are confused. I’m positive. No need for that in cannabis.
I’m a massive fan of the “High” end of the cannabis flower business. It stems from my background in boutique rum for about a year. In a life much unknown to my cannabis friends, I was the national brand ambassador for a craft-centric rum company owned by a Russian company. They brought me to the Moscow Bar Show and they helped me in my quest to seek and sell the finest craft spirits over the mundane, mass-produced corporate ones. Their specialty was un-manipulated rum, which brings me to my current day dilemma. Too many multi-state cannabis brands focus on mass quantities of any given cultivar. I’m happy that their deeply corporate metrics allow them to grow three hundred thousand square feet of only a couple strains of cannabis, but really what I’m looking for is an adherence to quality over sheer quantity.
From the very first glance, be it on an angle, or straight into your hand, lighting your tiny, but mighty joint and inhaling deeply brings solace. Through inhaling the healing vapors you can feel into your very soul that Sundae School mini-joints are something extremely special. If you think that you’ve tried excellent cannabis in the past I implore you to seek out Sundae School’s offerings in the cannabis vein. The tiny tin boxes come emblazoned with the messages of the moment. Eureka. Uplift. Brain, Cardio, Boost. They are known professionally as Bullets. I’ve always thought of this size of joint as a dog-walk joint, just enough to walk your dog and make a new friend at the same time.
Sundae School is the smokable incarnation of much dreaming.
It’s hard to break me away from the tried and true. After all, I had a grinder for at least ten years before I even thought about raising the bar and upgrading it. The grinder that I upgraded to is made of ceramic. It’s so smooth and it never gets stuck on anything, stems or an errant seed, although I’d be hard pressed to find one of those. Imagine my trepidation when the Tectonic 9 was delivered to my door. I had a perfectly good grinder, then upgraded to something that I always wanted. Now I was given the opportunity to try the Tectonic9. What should I do?
I live in New Jersey, which is light-years behind California on everything cannabis. That is why I pay so much attention to the cultivation scene on the West Coast. No matter how, if or when New Jersey is legalized, massive hurdles must be overcome, just to remain relevant. That’s why I suggest becoming more proficient with the terms MSO, SSO and… None of the Above. Good luck with cannabis in New Jersey, you’re going to need it!
