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Rolling Stoned: Troegs Ales & Indica Edibles

       Now that marijuana is legal for adult use here in Massachusetts, and available for retail, I decided it was high time (get it?) to start reviewing strains, edibles &cetera. Whether, in the long run, to create a new blog specific to cannabis or just keep posting here on the Discriminating Wino, I shall have to decide in time. For now let's keep it all together; 'specially as the effects and terpene profiles of weed and beer can be highly complimentary, or disastrously overpowering! Thus shall I take upon me the sacred duty of finding great pairings...

    What better way to kick off the summer (or at least the pseudo-Druidic month of Duir) than with my favorite domestic craft brewery's latest mix-pack offering and some edibles from a new, local farm-to-table Cannabis share?

Troegs Mix-Pack: Perpetual IPA, Field Study, Haze Charmer, and Sunshine Pilsner, 3 bottles ea.

Healing Hemp Salted Butterscotch Indica, 5 candies, 250mg total

Mmmm...I start with a chew as I step out of the store and walk to the busstop... buttery, earthy, waxy lecithin texture melts in my mouth, betraying the subtle spice of myrcene and a little tingly warning to my CB1 receptors. I can barely read my book on the bus ride; twenty minutes later I am floating down the sidewalk, feeling fine, eat a second edible and detour to the liquor store for that Troegs mix-pack (cause they don't have any more six-packs left of the Field Study by itself, the beer I've been curious to pair with cannabis since the last time I drank it a few weeks ago) get home, take a cold shower and crack open the first beer:

 Perpetual IPA (Imperial Pale Ale) 7.5% 

    Crispness of the grains, subtle yeast finish, bitterness just short of overpowering; the hops suggesting pine and citrus, contrasting with the earthy, caramelly sweetness of the butterscotch and bringing that myrcene even more to the front.

At this point I was really feeling just dandy, went for a little walk outside and smelled the beautiful June flowers, I wish I could identify all the terpenes dancing around in the air, analyze the aroma the Goddess weaves, that's the Great Work this alchemist's apprentice has set himself...and have another chew and my second beer of the afternoon as it slips into early evening and I start thinking about food...but first my taste buds must experience...

Field Study IPA (India Pale Ale) 6.2%

    When I drank one of these a few weeks ago my immediate reaction, which ultimately prompted this renewed blog activity, was: Wow! this is the most perfect terpene profile on any IPA I've ever tasted -- not that I was ever a big IPA guy until now -- the point being, rather, that this is the best beer to drink as a substitute for weed, both in terms of flavor and effect. But I was curious how it'd be, paired with ganja -- I think the jury will have to wait to smoke a bowl of Pineapple with a bottle of Field Study one of these days, to really be sure, but just with this indica butterscotch I can already relish the myrcene overload, with strong compliments of caryophyllene and limonene. 

    But how does it feel?

Well, this particular combination is proving quite mellow, relaxing to almost the highest degree of perfection, without being sedating (thus far -- after two beers and 150mg of THC over two hours) though I should disclose I had some ice coffee not too long before the candies.

Haze Charmer (Pale Ale) 5.5%

    Learning to appreciate the similarity in terpene profiles between hops and ganja strains has been one of the subtler joys of these past few years. The myrcene really takes over, but the subtle fruit flavors again suggest limonene and caryophyllene, terpenes that are also pronounced in a lot of modern indica strains of cannabis.



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