By Will Grunewald
From our October 2021 issue
1. CBD Seltzer
Fogtown Brewing Company, in Ellsworth, worked with Shimmerwood Beverages to jump on two bandwagons at once, riding both the spiked-seltzer and the CBD crazes. Shimmer Seltzer, a CBD-infused seltzer comes in raspberry-lime, ginger-orange, and hemp flavors. The CBD is from a cannabis and maple-syrup farm in the town of Denmark.
2. Cannabis Coffee
Cannabis and caffeine go way back together in the Netherlands, so a linkup of pot and coffee pot seemed only a matter of time here. In May, Higher Grounds café opened in the Old Port, and any of its coffee lineup, from locally roasted Speckled Ax beans, can be infused with a CBD tincture. Higher-test products are for customers with medical-marijuana licenses.
3. Hemp Tea
LoveGrown, a Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association–certified operation, makes loose-leaf hemp tea. It does not, thankfully, taste like wet rope or bong water — it’s more or less in the family of other earthy herbal teas, and it can be mixed into any other loose-leaf teas, for those who prefer the taste of, say, green or Earl Grey.
4. THC Juice
A Maine chain with recreational shops in Bath and Rockland, plus medicinal shops around the state, Highbrow was first in Maine to introduce a THC drink, in the form of a mixed-berry juice. Now, its lineup of bottled juices includes lemonade, pink lemonade, blood orange, and pineapple mango.
5. THC-Infused Imitation Beer
Shipyard Brewing Co.’s Pumpkinhead Ale has been an autumnal staple of the Maine diet for more than 20 years. Now, owing to a partnership with Scarborough’s Novel Beverage Company, it’s also available in what the company calls “elixir” form, a THC-infused imitation beer. All the same fall spices, none of the alcohol.
