From a black currant sour to an espresso martini riff, here are five THC cocktails to pour this summer, plus the bottles worth keeping in the fridge. No hangover required.
There is a moment at almost every summer party when the bar opens. The wines, the whiskeys, the canned cocktails, the cold beers. I am not anti-alcohol. I drink it. I just do not always want it, and lately neither do a lot of the people I end up pouring for.
I already made the case for the bottle itself in a recent review. This is the follow-up, the part where you actually make something with it. The appeal of hemp-derived THC drinks is that you get the social lift and the ritual of a good cocktail, the glass in your hand, the thing to sip, without the next-morning tax. Over the last year, the category jumped from flavored seltzers to something you can actually build a drink around, and that changed what a weed cocktail can be. So here is the practical version: five cocktails worth making this summer, the bottles I would keep in the fridge, and how to pour all of it without ending the night on the floor.
Why A THC Drink, Not A Seltzer
Most hemp-derived THC beverages started life as seltzer-style cans: low dose, single cannabinoid, one note. They are fine. They also tend to bottom out at a certain point in the night because the format has nowhere to go. The newer move is the spirit format, a mixable base you pour like liquor and dial for social use instead of sleep. Some of these drinks lean on THCV alongside THC, a rarer cannabinoid that tends toward clear-headed, energizing effects rather than couch-lock, so the lift puts you further into the room instead …
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Author: High Times / High Times
