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The established links between brewers and cannabis growers is long established. IMO, it has probably always been interlinked. Go to places around the United States, (especially where prohibition still exist) and you'll find that many of the brewery supply stores, especially these "micro brew" suppliers also carry cannabis growing supplies, because there's always been some overlap, I suppose. It's been this way for decades in some states.
My buddy that I grew up with in Chicago area made his bones selling weed when we was going up, and eventually was able to start grow supply chain. On the storefront, it was always "brewery supplies" but on on the inside, it was a cannabis cultivation supplies operation. The feds tried to shut him down for decades to no avail. He sold things like HPS lights right along side brewing kits.
My guess is that this goes back much farther. Cannabis and Brewing have/has been always interlinked on some level or another, and my theory is that old world brewers were perhaps, using spent spent grain, spent yeast, and spent hops for soil amendments on cannabis and hemp.
It's not hard to imagine in the old world, the same bloke that was growing grains for making whiskey, beer, was also probably growing weed, and poppies. Cause many of the people who consumed those products were likely consuming some, or all of them.
Do that for long periods of time (hundreds of years) and evolution naturally takes it course.
My buddy that I grew up with in Chicago area made his bones selling weed when we was going up, and eventually was able to start grow supply chain. On the storefront, it was always "brewery supplies" but on on the inside, it was a cannabis cultivation supplies operation. The feds tried to shut him down for decades to no avail. He sold things like HPS lights right along side brewing kits.
My guess is that this goes back much farther. Cannabis and Brewing have/has been always interlinked on some level or another, and my theory is that old world brewers were perhaps, using spent spent grain, spent yeast, and spent hops for soil amendments on cannabis and hemp.
It's not hard to imagine in the old world, the same bloke that was growing grains for making whiskey, beer, was also probably growing weed, and poppies. Cause many of the people who consumed those products were likely consuming some, or all of them.
Do that for long periods of time (hundreds of years) and evolution naturally takes it course.
Evaluation of Spent Grain Biochar Impact on Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) Growth by Multivariate Image Analysis
Biochar is generally considered as an effective soil amendment, which can improve soil organic matter and nutrients content and enhance crop productivity. In this study, biochar derived from brewers’ spent grain (BSG) was used in a pot and field experiment to assess whether its addition to soil...
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