Oct
8
11:00pm
CBD Beer: Answers to the Booming CBD Craze
By Gourmet Brewing
CBD Beer
Answers to the Booming CBD Craze
Featuring:
Ross Koenigs
New Belgium Brewery - R&D Specialist
Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm ET (4:00 pm PT)
Ross Koenigs, New Belgium's IPA formulator will help us learn and separate fact from fiction associated with CBD and cannabis in beverages. In addition, we'll explore dank hop aromas and flavors in beer. Ross’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone Magazine, Men’s Journal, Westword, and many others.
What You Will Learn: Dankness, and resinous
Commercial Calibration:
- New Belgium Hemperor
- Wicked Weed Lt. Dank
- Sweetwater's G420 Strain G13 IPA
- Sweetwaters: Jack Herer Harvest Ale
- Sierra Nevada Dankful IPA
Answers to the Booming CBD Craze
- Defining dank, resinous aromas, and flavors
- Marijuana vs hemp (psychoactive versus not)
- Regulatory maze (overview of the legal status of Hemp and CBD)
- Similarities and differences: hops, cannabinoids, and Cannabis
- Strategies and considerations for hemp and CBD Beer
- Cannabis components of brewing interest
- Cannabis's future impact on the brewing community
Join our tasting!
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Question and Answer:
Ross will answer your questions in the second half of the live stream.
About Ross Koenigs:
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Ross Koenigs is the Brewing Innovations Specialist for New Belgium Brewing Company. Ross brings fifteen years of Brewing Industry experience and has developed a wide range of expertise throughout his career. He spends most of his time researching and formulating IPA’s for New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger IPA series but also branches out into different unique ingredients and styles of beer. Through his hop chemistry work, and a bit of luck, he was introduced into the world of Cannabis and has developed a passion for the possibilities the plant holds. He was the architect of the first nationally distributed Hemp Beer, the Hemperor, and is currently working on a book about Cannabis and Beer for Brewers Association Publications, due out in 2021. Ross’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, Rolling Stone Magazine, Men’s Journal, Westword, and many others. Ross lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife Amy.
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