For those who like great tasting beer, homebrewing is the way to go. It lets you control the taste of your beer, it saves money, and it is a great way to impress your friends. The actual brewing process isn’t that hard once you know how to do it. However, you do need certain equipment and ingredients to get started. Ingredients such as hops, grain, and extract can be purchased at a brewing retailer. Necessary equipment such as a fermenter, capper, and siphon must be purchased before you begin your homebrewing hobby.

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Hops and Cannabis are from the same family so it makes some wonder: Is it possible to brew beer with marijuana? It is true that in the past, many cultures have made some type of drink using cannabis. However, it is also true that marijuana is currently illegal in almost every country in the world.

I had trouble finding any step by step instructions for this brew for several reasons, mainly because marijuana is illegal.

The reason anyone would want to brew beer using marijuana would be to get the effects of marijuana. The THC present in the plant causes the effects of marijuana, so it is necessary to not lose the THC during the brewing process.

If you were going to try to brew marijuana beer, you could not just substitute it for hops. The reason for this is that the boiling of the hops (or in this case marijuana) would boil out any of the THC. If there is no THC, there is no point in making a marijuana brew, because people are not attracted to the drug for its taste. One way around this is to dry hop your brew with weed. Doing it this way you will not be boiling off any of the THC. Dry hopping is just adding hops when transferring the beer into the second fermenter and letting it sit until bottling.

The only problem with this is that the amount of marijuana needed for dry hopping is quite a lot. You need about a tsp or 2 per beer to get a desired effect. Doing the math means that you need at least 17 tablespoons of marijuana per 50 gallon batch.

Another way to do this without brewing a whole batch of “marijuana beer” is to add the weed to the beer when bottling. Just add a tsp to the bottle when bottling and let the bottle sit for 2 weeks or so. After this, the marijuana will have settled with the yeast and you can drink the beer from a glass. The beer will taste somewhat like marijuana though. The benefit to doing it this way is that you can experiment with just a few beers in your homebrew batch.

Although coming from the same family, marijuana cannot be substituted for hops when making beer. It would give an unpleasant taste and the THC will be boiled off during the home brewing process. However, if your mind is set on making a batch of “marijuana beer,” there are other ways to include it in your brew.