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Javier Hasse Senior Contributor Vices I write about all things cannabis, hemp, CBD and psychedelics.
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For the most part, seeing executives from major mainstream companies migrate into the cannabis industry is no longer a novelty. I had become quite obsessed with this trend in previous years, reporting on “The Migration Saga” extensively on Forbes.
2/5/20 By DAN ULLOA
Warren Bobrow is one of the premier cannabis mixologists in the country.
His eventful career in the cannabis industry has led him to travel across the United States. Yet he was born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey and has lived there most of his life.
However, at one-point Bobrow moved to Portland Maine where he worked in restaurants where he became a chef and a good bartender. While a bartender, he became a great mixologist, specializing in creating unique alcoholic drinks.
After becoming well-known as a mixologist, he wrote a book called “Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails”. He went to the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum to promote the book and was amazed to learn about the medical role of cannabis in an earlier age.
“I had a dream in New Orleans, and I saw it. It was so profound,” Bobrow said. This prompted him to begin looking into creating cannabis cocktails and mocktails. He already been a fan of it for quite some time.
“Weed is exceptional. It makes you feel better about grim circumstances surrounding you,” Bobrow said. “The only thing that kept me sane when working for a private bank was smoking cannabis.”
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Peak Extracts Five Ten Cartridge comes filled with some of the most strain specific, terroir authentic cultivars that I’ve tasted in recent memory. But before I get too far ahead of myself, it wasn’t that many hours since my plane departed from Portland, Oregon. I was out there, not as a journalist, but as a mixologist. This was an unexpected bit of work, and it came at a fine time because I hadn’t been to Portland, Oregon in many months. My last trip out there was amazing. Filled with a series of deep-dives into the periphery of the legal cannabis business. There was so much that I wanted to do, see, eat and smoke, BUT there just wasn’t enough time to see the people I wanted to see, (I’m sorry), nor was I able to get that sit down meal at Pok Pok. I did get take-out, and it was delicious with those wings leading the charge to my palate.
Read More Here At Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenbobrow/2019/03/27/peak-extracts-tantalizingly-authentic-cannabis-terroir/#287c26833744
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Klaus meets Mr Bourdain
Le Bernadin, New York’s internationally acclaimed four star seafood restaurant, was the location for a luncheon to celebrate the American Craft Council, sponsored by Balvenie Scotch Whisky. You see Klaus, like American Crafts are a finite resource.
Klaus was asked to drink whiskey during the day! Or was it that fact that I was asked, and Klaus came with me? I’m not sure. But the opportunity arose to ask five questions that suddenly became four questions, yet Klaus, the soused gnome was so interested in lunch, he forgot the last one. But that’s another story for another day.
You see Klaus, like American Crafts are a finite resource. High end craft (not roadside crafts) is a fine art form. In many ways, Klaus is the same. He was handmade! Many years ago as well!
1800s!
At any rate, Klaus was thirsty for whiskey and day drinking is his favorite thing to do.. next to drinking everyone else’s drinks of course.
Klaus is lucky…
He got to meet Anthony Bourdain!
Read More Here at Wild River Review
https://www.wildriverreview.com/food-drink/cocktail-whisperer/the-cocktail-whisperer-asks-anthony-bourdain-four-questions-about-scotch/
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Toddies!
Hot Toddy Time!
Frosty weather is coming quickly and in keeping with his German heritage, Klaus has a fire burning in the fireplace to take the chill off the morning. Mornings in the old house are usually punctuated by the sound of crackling fires in the dining room fireplace. Comforting and warming, a nice fire is taking the chill off the air out in the garden.
Although it’s still warm during the day, the mornings can be rather chilly!
You’d be hard pressed to find an authority figure when it comes to cannabis cocktails. But Warren Bobrow, the author of Cannabis Cocktails, Mocktails and Tonics, doesn’t think that’s because the combination is a bad idea. He should know — he literally wrote the book on the subject. He’s a strong believer in a good cannabis cocktail. It’s just that everyone else (other than a few brave bar owners) is too scared to tackle the subject.
There’s that, and the fact that making cannabis cocktails the right way — in a safe way that actually tastes good — is a lot harder than just throwing a couple nugs into a cocktail shaker. Luckily, Bobrow has it mastered, and it all started with a dream and a passion for quality cocktails and cannabis.
Bobrow didn’t recently jump on the cannabis trend. He says he’s been enjoying marijuana since he was 13 years old, and has experimented with putting marijuana in food. He was a banker for 20 years, but has since become a notable person in the cocktail world with four books about cocktails. Then in 2012 he read about a cannabis-infused dinner at Robertas in New York City. He noticed something curious in the story: The food had cannabis in it, but no one touched the drinks.
“So I wanted to change the world in my own way and offer something people hadn’t done before,” Bobrow says. “So I made all of my own drinks.”
Today, you don’t know cannabis cocktails if you don’t know Bobrow’s book. But for starters, here are some of the most important things to know before experimenting with cannabis cocktails.
IT’S SCIENTIFIC
“It’s not just stuffing a bunch of weed into vodka and hoping for the best,” Bobrow says. “That gives you green chlorophyll garbage that doesn’t get you stoned, it just gives you a headache.”
Bobrow’s preferred method of extracting THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is through a process called decarboxylation, or simply decarb. Decarboxylation turns THCA, a non-psychoactive compound found on live marijuana plants, into THC. To decarb, you heat the cannabis at 240 degrees for an hour (Bobrow uses a decarboxylation tool from Ardent that is microprocessor controlled).
THE QUALITY OF LIQUOR MATTERS
“Use the very best liquor you can use, no skimping,” Bobrow says. “It’s the same realm that I use in my craft cocktails. I only use small-producer craft spirits because I know that the quality is high.”
You get out what you put in. So put in the good stuff.
“All of my craft cocktails and mocktails and tonics and things that I use in the book include the use of the highest-quality craft spirits someone can buy,” Bobrow says.
DON’T OVERDO IT
“It’s very important to understand this is a psychoactive drug and too much can render the user impossibly couch-locked like I found myself once or twice,” Bobrow says.
Luckily, Bobrow has done all the experimenting so you don’t have to.
“The best advice I can give is balance,” Bobrow says, because everyone’s body chemistry is different. The results can be unpredictable, as a VinePair writer who drank weed wine found out.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO GET CRAZY FOR A GOOD COCKTAIL
“My drinks are not sweet,” Bobrow says. “They’re really dry, aromatic, savory, with great balance. And they’re cocktails that anyone can make with very limited time: simple, classic, crisp, beautiful.”
Bobrow’s cocktails utilize cannabis-infused bitters, cannabis cherries that he calls “greenish cherries,” and infused liquors. You don’t need 20 ingredients to make a good cannabis cocktail. Stick with the basics and infuse cannabis for the ideal cocktail.
IF YOU TRY ONE CANNABIS COCKTAIL, TRY THIS ONE
Bobrow is inspired by history. One person in particular stuck out to him: Milton Mezzrow, a jazz musician in the 1920s who sold weed to Louis Armstrong. He named a cocktail after him, the Mezzrow Cocktail. The cocktail is a mix of cannabis infused vermouth, 1 ounce of bourbon, aromatic bitters, and greenish cherries in a glass with crushed ice.
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