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Canada has brought us fair access to marijuana both for recreational and medical purposes. However, most cannabis-infused products, including alcoholic beverages, are still illegal to sell and purchase. The new regulations of Health Canada about marijuana legalization is too limited and excludes cannabis-infused alcohol.
Instead of buying to your local LCBO for a ready-made bottle, make your own THC infused whiskey. After all, any form of edibles or drinks for personal consumption is permitted to do so. Follow this recipe on how to make marijuana-infused whiskey while enjoying Canada’s wintertime.
Cannabis-infused Whiskey Recipe
Any citrus or pine scented marijuana strains pairs incredibly well with whiskey’s flavor. To make this recipe, you can use any weed types that you may already have on hand at home. If you plan to make cannabis-infused whiskey regularly, planting it is more affordable. You can purchase through online cannabis seeds store for seeds.
In creating this whiskey, ensure that you have enough marijuana available. The alcohol content of your whiskey is pertinent to the number of extracted cannabinoids. The more cannabinoids you put, the higher the alcohol content of your whiskey.
This recipe makes: 1 bottle of marijuana-infused whiskey
Time to Make: 3 and a half days
Ingredients:
- One 750 ml bottle of whiskey (if you are not familiar with whiskeys, check this whiskey reviews and find a whiskey that will suit your taste)
- 12 grams of dry marijuana
Tools Required:
- Cookie Sheet
- Cheesecloth
- Parchment Paper
- Two 1-Liter Jars or Larger Sealable Mason Jars
- 1 Brown Paper Bag
- 1 Funnel
- Oven
Procedures:
- Decarboxylating the bud
The first step in making your cannabis-infused whiskey at home is decarboxylating your bud. This process is essential because of the following:
- converts the THCA into THC
- stimulates the psychoactive components in marijuana
- THCA will not get you high
- No noticeable difference in the potency of your whiskey
What you must do is to preheat your oven to 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Grind the dried herb and remove the excess stem. Then, put one sheet of parchment paper on a cookie sheet where you will spread the bud grind around. This way, it will keep away any metal edges from the ground bud. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes, and once finished, remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
- Mixing with Whiskey and Fermentation
Transfer the whiskey into a one-liter resealable mason jar. Put in the decarboxylated cannabis and swirl the jar for better mixing. Continue mixing it until the whiskey entirely covered all of the ground buds. Ensure that no moving pieces will remain exposed to the air as it will increase the potential for mold growth.
After mixing, seal the jar and store inside of a paper bag under the sun. The sun heats the mixture while the bag gives shade to keep the THC and terpenes intact. Leave the jar in the bag for three days. However, take it out only twice a day to shake it for one minute.
- Strain the Excess Plant Material
After fermenting for three days, you have now finished the infusion of THC into the whiskey. The next procedure is straining the plant material. To do this, place a cheesecloth over a funnel set into the opening of a clean resealable mason jar. Then, pour the contents through the cheesecloth carefully.
Once all the mixture has leaked through, squeeze the cheesecloth to collect the last drop before disposal. Get a second new piece of cheesecloth and repeat the straining step. You can strain it as many times as you want to, removing any excess plant material that might make your drinks gritty.
- Seal and Enjoy!
After filtration, your THC infused whiskey is ready to enjoy! Seal it either in its original bottle or in a mason jar. Store it in a cool dark place until you are prepared to serve it.
Dosing
It is recommended to start with one serving at a time. Wait for at least two hours between doses to allow gauging how it will affect you. Two ounces of the cannabis-infused whiskey is equal to one full serving.
Chronic Cure
Before its legalization, people have been selling cannabis-infused whiskey as an effective medical treatment for those suffering from a variety of different ailments. It may not cure everything that ails you, but it will offer a unique experience. This reason is why medical experts in Canada battled out its legalization throughout.
For medical treatment, mix the following ingredients:
- two ounces of THC-infused whiskey
- one ounce of honey
- one-half of an ounce of lemon juice
- one-quarter of an ounce of ginger juice
Then, shake using a mixer filled with ice for a minute. Pour over ice cubes and garnish it with a lime or lemon wedge.
Dosing
It is never recommended to surpass one serving every 2 hours, especially for new users. One ounce of the marijuana-infused whiskey is equivalent to one full serving.
With the legalization of marijuana in Canada, it is crucial to know the limits of this policy even for recreational purposes. THC-infused whiskey might be dangerous if taken too much. Enjoying Canada’s weather, indulge this new type of whiskey by making one instead of buying ready-made to avoid legal disputes.
FWIW…
For several years our family has been making infusions, usually with oil instead of alcohol or whiskey although the process is the same. We use a product called Butter Brewer which allows for precise temperature control in both the decarb and infusion stages. We highly recommend this product if you intend to make infusions often.
Anyway, the point is that our recipe calls for a decarb stage of 240 degrees for 70 mins. I realize there is a lot of confusing information out there about the precise time and temp for decarbing, if you search you might fiind a chart and other confusing stuff. Basically, there is window in the combinations of time and temp that cook the product just so as to optimize thc activation. I’m not saying the numbers given in this recipe are wrong, in fact they seem a tad conservative which is fine since under-decarbing is better than over-decarbing as that destroys your product. I’m just saying that if you have the means to provide precise temp control, going as long as 70 mins at 240 degrees will not overcook it, and will produce a potent product for your infusing needs.
And yes, you can shorten the infusion time by using heat in a cooker like the Butter Brewer. Just be careful that alcohol boils at around 173, so set your temp lower in the 160-165 range. We do coconut oil at 180 for around 13 hours. I don’t know if I’d be willing to let whiskey sit unattended overnight, so don’t take this as an endorsement to do so.
Cheers and happy infusing.
RED ALERT ON PREVIOUS POST!!
Upon re-reading this post and consulting my wife I must make a correction:
We decarb at 225-230 for 70 mins. NOT 240 as i stated above. I took that number from you.
REPEAT: 70 mins at 225, 239 max.
That is all.
what I want to do is make whiskey out of marijuana can that be done . I picked up a small still with thump keg what else do I need
Since whiskey is by definition made with grain, you can’t make it with any other plant. Infuse or flavor it, yes, but not make it.
You can infact make whiskey with bud your mash bill must contain 51% corn or grain to be considerded whiskey the remaining ingriedents can be anything you think will enhance the flavour of your whiskey aswell as the thc will boil and vaporise along with the ethanol and come out together as an already infused whiskey this after all is practically how distilliate oil is made only rather tgen evaporating the ethanol off you leaveit to be enjoyed with the thc i use a 6 gallon reflux still to make thc infused vodka all the the time
I allowed the comment, but this is technically incorrect. The wort or mash of a whiskey is required to be 100% grain. If it is 51% corn and 49% other vegetable matter, it’s not whiskey. The same would be true if it were 99% barley and 1% other vegetable matter.
On this website, we have covered corn and sugar moonshines in the past, but we’ve been careful to distinguish them as part of a larger tradition and not truly whiskeys. The same applies to Indian whiskies that include their local version of rum in the blend. An infusion isn’t the same thing, and the 51% rule described is the threshold for being bourbon, rye, wheat or malt whiskey under American law. That distinguishes a type of whiskey.
So you are saying do not put bud in my mash
I would recommend ethanol for the initial soaking, then recovery the ethanol, the remaining material is the full spectrum just before winterization. Now after you heat your material, to remove the waxes, terpenes and bio mass particles, you have then “Full Spectrum 2nd pass”, if you want to refine it more, heat to 356 F, boil point for CBD and set up the heat to distill the wanted cannabinoids. After all of this, now, the material, which resembles “Honey Golden but clear”, is something to “Mix” “Homogenize” together. I would recommend an “Ultrasonic Transducer Homogenizer”, to merge the “Distillate” into the “Whisky”, distillation
of both, together, to form a “Merged and Homogenized” reflection of the best of both!