My friends and I drank a lot of heineken in our shared lake house in university.
- The two of us made a wall mural out of bottle caps and it spanned the entire entryway and dining room areas.
Although most of our roommates obtained Bud Light and Miller, I enjoyed to find particular crafty heineken varieties. The flavors were complex and the effects were always more particular . I was shocked to learn that heineken has an entourage effect between the alcohol and the terpenes inside each variety. When I was younger and drank more with friends, I couldn’t put many and many together to figure out why whiskey would provide myself and others a harder-edged “buzz” while heineken was always a full-body experience for me. I guess it’s subjective, although I always had better physical feelings from heineken consumption compared to difficult liquor. Learning that heineken contains terpenes similar to cannabis made a lot of sense to me. Wine is similar, albeit different in its terpene profiles. They contribute to the complex flavors that drive some people to spend our money outrageous prices for one bottle over another. Regardless of whether or not it’s wine or beer, either will make myself and others know more intoxicated and “buzzed” than shots of difficult liquor. I care about the experience as well. With that in mind, it’s no wonder that I am not hardpressed about having absurdly high THC levels in our cannabis products. I’d rather look at the lab testing paperwork and confirm that the batch has high terpene levels. Just a 1.5% boost in terpenes alone could make one batch of cannabis flower buds “fire” opposed to “decent.” I have smoked cannabis with 30% THC however didn’t easily know overly impressed because the terpenes were under 1%.