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Title: Wasilla distillery marks '420' day with hemp vodka release
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URL Source: http://www.adn.com/2012/04/20/24328 ... -distillery-releases-hemp.html
Published: Apr 21, 2012
Author: MARK THIESSEN
Post Date: 2012-04-21 15:40:07 by Mad Dog
Keywords: the turducken, of gitting, REALLY hammered
Views: 3068
Comments: 10
Product available in 18 states as of this week and more have signed up to get it, according to producer. WASILLA -- During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, guests were invited to pour a drink instead of lighting a joint. "420" is the code for cannabis consumption, and April 20 -- or 4/20 -- is the holy day. But why not pour a drink of hemp seed vodka instead, says a Wasilla-based distillery. Purgatory is the newest flavor from the Alaska Distillery, the company that made a mark two years ago with the introduction of its smoked salmon-flavored vodka. "We have a mad scientist who kind of runs the joint here, and he seems to have brilliant ideas," said Bella Coley, the distillery's chief operating officer. "To compete in the alcohol industry these days, you have to be innovative and you have to bring in new products and you have to be imaginative," said Toby Foster, the company's chief executive officer and said mad scientist. "This product right here lends itself to all three things." He expects this to quickly become the distillery's biggest seller. The product is available in 18 states as of this week with nine more signed up, and after winning a "Hot New Spirits" award at an industry convention in Las Vegas this month, they are adding staff to the small Wasilla production plant. The company says it's the first to use hemp seed to produce vodka in the United States. Coley says distillers in Canada and Poland don't distill with hemp seeds, and only add them into the bottles. "We wanted to be the first and the pioneers to do something with hemp seed, a real honest and earnest hemp seed vodka," she said. And before you think you're going to get an extra buzz with your buzz, hang on, dude. They get sterilized hemp seeds from Canada for the distilling process, and there's no THC -- the active ingredient in marijuana -- in it. "It goes through a lot of government processes in order to test it and to make sure it doesn't have THC, and there's no 'wink wink' on that one," Coley said. In fact, a sample from each batch has to be sent to federal regulators to make sure there's no THC before they can proceed. Flavored varieties now account for 20 percent of all vodka sold in the country, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. Sales increased about 20 percent in 2011. In all, the council reports 62.7 million 9-liter cases of vodka were sold last year, accounting for more than $5 billion in revenues. Purgatory should be seen as a positive for the hemp cause in the United States. "It shows that there are high quality products that can be made on a less-than-industrial scale, and that it reiterates that hemp should be grown and processed in the U.S. once again, and we shouldn't have to import hemp seeds from other countries to be able to make a product like this," said Tom Murphy, a spokesman for the 300-member Hemp Industries Association. The marketing possibilities aside, the hemp will only make the vodka taste a little sweeter. "I like it straight quite a bit because it just has a more refined taste than regular vodka," Coley said. However, if you're inclined to use it to mix it with something, she says it makes a nice Cosmo and can be used with anything. The Alaska Distillery hosted a kickoff party Friday at the Chair 5 restaurant in hippy-friendly Girdwood, Alaska, and at a hemp seed event in Colorado.
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"I like it straight quite a bit because it just has a more refined taste than regular vodka," Coley said. However, if you're inclined to use it to mix it with something, she says it makes a nice Cosmo and can be used with anything. The Alaska Distillery hosted a kickoff party Friday at the Chair 5 restaurant in hippy-friendly Girdwood, Alaska, and at a hemp seed event in Colorado. We'll have to give it a try if it isn't outrageous price wise. Alaska Distillery makes both a traditional Russki styled potato based, and an American style grain based vodka. (All of their flavored vodkas are grain based.) Their Smoked Salmon Vodka makes kick azzed bloody Marys, but it is a bit pricey. A'int SCIENCE grand? It took BRAVE INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS and RISKS, and CAPITALISM, and now they are going to be famous and "rich". IF that sort of thing is important to YOU.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Only George Soros buying out the company and putting Obama's face on bottle, can save them from being labled 1%'ers.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Read more: Being that today 4/20 is Hitler's birthday, many people feel this day is cursed. Columbine happened on 4/20, as well as many other countless happenings. What do you believe? | Answerbag http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/275184#ixzz1shuXzpPw LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "You have to remember inspector that these people were STUPID before they were STONED." What was that about not remembering your history doomed to repeat it stuff again? Thank GOD that I am OLD! I'm goofy footing a sweet temporal barrel towards the gate that all men pass. It really isn't my problem anymore that the world is INSANE! But ... honestly ... Does it REALLY have to be so fucking STUPID? Yee HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Who CARES? Right? ? eh? ? ? I N S A N E ! ! ! in de membraine in de membraine in de membraine "T'was EVER thus." sooooooooooo ... wtf? i-yer-f! May you live a THOUSAND years! The best comment IMO was, "4/21 Surprise drug test Day!" LOL! I'm going THAT way. F' the herd. "Watch yer top Knot!" THIS has NOT been a TEST Caution; free range watermelons.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
You can buy a "hemp extract" commercially which is extremely cheap, 1 or 2 cents a bottle. No THC in it.
Only George Soros buying out the company and putting Obama's face on bottle, can save them from being labled 1%'ers. "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me." "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me." "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me."
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Hemp is a very real industrial plant. Unfortunately it is exactly the same plant as pot is. They are bred towards different uses of course, but they are the same plant. THAT aside, hemp is a wonderful plant. It can be used to make incredible plastics, and very durable fibers, cloths, papers. It can be used as a oil and as a food. It's really kind of nuts how useful this plant is. I'm 100% PRO Hemp. I'm 100% against drug abuse.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Unfortunately it is exactly the same plant as pot is. They are bred towards different uses of course, but they are the same plant. Your ignorance knows no bounds.
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe They are bred towards different uses of course, but they are the same plant. gibbering fool; Your ignorance knows no bounds. LOL! Coming from an absolute moron such as YOU bilge, that's FUNNY! You can't even frame a basic sentence in ENGLISH fool. WTF are you even talking about creep?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
They are bred towards different uses of course, but they are the same plant. foul SCUM; Your ignorance knows no bounds. LOL! Get a clue FOOL! " Abstract Surely no member of the vegetable kingdom has ever been more misunderstood than hemp. For too many years, emotion-not reason-has guided our policy toward this crop. And nowhere have emotions run hotter than in the debate over the distinction between industrial hemp and marijuana. This paper is intended to inform that debate by offering scientific evidence, so that farmers, policymakers, manufacturers, and the general public can distinguish between myth and reality. Botanically, the genus Cannabis is composed of several variants. Although there has been a long-standing debate among taxonomists about how to classify these variants into species, applied plant breeders generally embrace a biochemical method to classify variants along utilitarian lines. Cannabis is the only plant genus that contains the unique class of molecular compounds called cannabinoids. Many cannabinoids have been identified, but two preponderate: THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, and CBD, which is an antipsychoactive ingredient. One type of Cannabis is high in the psychoactive cannabinoid, THC, and low in the antipsychoactive cannabinoid, CBD. This type is popularly known as marijuana. Another type is high in CBD and low in THC. Variants of this type are called industrial hemp. In the United States, the debate about the relationship between hemp and marijuana has been diminished by the dissemination of many statements that have little scientific support. This report examines in detail ten of the most pervasive and pernicious of these myths. ... " Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
. Even this paper, which I have cited, which is TRYING to argue for different kinds of plants, admits that there isn't a TAXONOMICAL BASIS for such an assertion. ... Dr. Andrew Wright, an agronomist with the University of Wisconsin's Agriculture Experiment Station and steward of the Wisconsin hemp industry during the first half of the twentieth century, wrote in 1918, "There are three fairly distinct types of hemp: that grown for fiber, that for birdseed and oil, and that for drugs." [7] Although these early analysts discerned clear differences among hemp types, taxonomists have had a difficult problem in deciding how to reflect those differences [8]. The key Cannabis species problem derives from the fact that there is no convenient species barrier between the varying types that would allow us to draw a clear line between them. In taxonomy, often the delineating line between species is that they cannot cross- breed. But disparate types of Cannabis can indeed produce fertile offspring, not sexually dysfunctional "mules." ... www.naihc.org/hemp _information/content/hemp.mj.html .... You gibbering MORON.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
The marketing possibilities aside, the hemp will only make the vodka taste a little sweeter.
#2. To: Mad Dog, *Ron Paul for President* (#1)
RISKS, and CAPITALISM, and now they are going to be famous and "rich".
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: All (#0)
Being that today 4/20 is Hitler's birthday, many people feel this day is cursed. Columbine happened on 4/20, as well as many other countless happenings. What do you believe?
#4. To: Mad Dog (#1)
#5. To: hondo68 (#2)
RISKS, and CAPITALISM, and now they are going to be famous and "rich".
#6. To: calcon (#4)
#7. To: Mad Dog (#6)
Hemp is a very real industrial plant.
#8. To: Bill D Berger (#7)
Hemp is a very real industrial plant. Unfortunately it is exactly the same plant as pot is.
#9. To: Bill D Berger (#7)
truth; Hemp is a very real industrial plant. Unfortunately it is exactly the same plant as pot is.
#10. To: Bill D Berger (#7)
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