With its Cannabis Club Brew, which is fully in line with the international trend, the Weissenohe Monastery Brewery, in collaboration with Hemp and Nature, offers both creative beer drinkers and hemp lovers a refreshing drink that, in its pleasantly rounded style, conveys the flowery, lemony and bitter hemp flower aroma as an enrichment to the taste of the beer.
The knowledge about the old cultivated plant hemp is being revived today and hemp is finding its way back into agriculture and thus also into the processing industry. This rediscovery of the hemp plant as an “egg-laying wool-milk sow” could be described as a green hope, as hemp covers a wide range of uses in its variety of applications and its ecological significance.
The Weissenohe monastery brewery gives its supplier organic farmers, for whom hemp is an important plant in crop rotation, the opportunity to market hemp products in their hemp beer in order to promote and stabilize the cultivation of the unique crop plant hemp and thus also organic farming. Prior to the enactment of the Purity Law in 1516, house-specific herbal mixtures, known as “gruit”, were often used to bitter and flavor the beer during brewing. In some countries, the tradition of brewing with herbs has been preserved. Hemp was already a widespread crop at that time and was certainly also used for bittering beers in “Kruut/Gruit” due to its bitterness.
As the share of trendy drinks in overall beverage consumption continues to increase, Cannabis Club Sud will certainly also find its fans as a mixed beer drink.
Raw materials: Vienna type malt blended with Pilsen type malt, both produced in a malting plant (currently the Klostermalz Wirth Frauenaurach malting plant) with an organic processing contract, thus a malt produced from organic brewing barley in accordance with organic processing guidelines. We prefer to process lighter malt blends as we like to achieve a light color through intensive mashing (boiling the malt-water mixture, the mash) and not through higher roasted malts, which often have an unpleasantly bitter roasted aroma.
Only the finest Bioland aroma hops from the Hersbruck growing region are used in our hemp beer. A hemp beer also requires an appropriate amount of hops to round off the flavor and for the brewing process. This is somewhat less than in a “normal” beer, as the hemp already has a certain bitterness. Our brewing water comes from the brewery’s own controlled spring. We are in the fortunate position of being able to process the water from these springs, the composition of which (e.g. very calcareous) corresponds to our landscape (Franconian Switzerland) and its geology. The quality of the water (the nitrate values are even below the requirements of the organic processing guidelines of max. 25 mg / ltr.) makes it possible for us to brew our beers with “active” spring water and not have to pump up “dead” water from great depths. We prefer to use organically grown hemp. This almost THC-free fiber hemp is used as an essential oil during the brewing process.
Type: Mixed beer drink made from 95% full beer and 5% spring water flavored with hemp
Quality mark: Bioland, organic seal, certified according to organic control body DE-ÖKO- 006
EAN code: 4 030414 900999
Manufactured for: Hemp and Nature, Gimbornerstr. 98, D 51709 Marienheide
by the: Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe, Klosterstr.20, 91367 Weissenohe, BRD
All our beers that we brew according to the Bioland guidelines are inspected by an independent institute, the company ABCERT AG. The code number is DE-ÖKO-006.
Facts:
Aroma: citrus, floral, fruity, hay/grass
Hops: 18 bittering units from the following varieties: Hallertauer Herkules, Hallertauer Tradition, Spalter Ariana
Malt: Bioland Vienna pale
Original wort: P 12
Ingredients: essential hemp oil, Bioland aroma hops, Bioland barley malt, water
