Feds warn Florida breweries to stop making marijuana-flavored beer

Very interesting article, will be interesting to see how this impacts this style going forward. Thanks for sharing.

 

Style?

 

"... he wasn’t aware the oil needed federal approval, since it contains no THC..."
"... he wasn’t aware that his terpenes oil-infused beers needed federal approval..."

Not to be unkind, but what is this? Beavis and Butt-Head brew beer?

How can you be running a production brewery and be unaware of the TTB recipe approval requirements?

 

They do dumb shit like this, yet they are the one's that campaign on bitching about the federal government's intrusion into everyday life

 

Or even something as basic and easy to use as:

 

I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll have to again: You don't have to be a good brewer or have the ability to run a business properly to open a brewery. All you need is a few million dollars.

 

*Or a few millions of other people's money

 

didnt J Wakefield do an event with terpene beer this week?

 

Yes and Lagunitas also released a beer flavored with cannabis terpenes.

 

Eventually I suppose we will need another beer style for this. First NEIPA, now...cannabis ale

 

Not just that, Lagunitas collaborated with Absolute Xtracts on some IPA-flavored marijuana concentrate vape cartridges, branded packaging and everything.

 

Yep, hop terps.

 

Our Federal tax dollars at work.

 

....... I want a refund........

 

Many breweries are making terpene flavored beers, not just in South Florida. That said, only two of those breweries (relatively new and quite small in terms of production capacity) received letters. J Wakefield cancelled his upcoming 4/20 event...other breweries have not (yet)

 

The Feds didn't send letters to everyone? How unevenhanded of them.

 

Someone in the ATF must have a relative at another competing brewery LMAO

 

Reinheitsgebot with the Hippie codicil. What's next? Coca leaves? Oh, wait --

 

Is the problem them using terpenes specifically extracted from cannabis? You can buy any terpene in bulk easily and legally, synthetic or naturally derived (not sure they all have synthetic versions). I don't understand what the problem is at all, there are definitely terpenes that are FDA approved.