With its Cannabis Club Sud, which is fully in line with the international trend, the Weissenohe monastery brewery, in cooperation with Hanf und Natur, offers both the creative beer drinker and the hemp lover a refreshing drink which, in its pleasantly rounded way, conveys the flowery-lemon-bitter hemp blossom aroma as an enrichment to the taste of the beer.
The knowledge of the old cultivated plant hemp is being revived today and hemp is finding its way back into agriculture and thus also into the processing industry.
This rediscovery of the hemp plant as an "egg-laying wool-milk sow". Could be described as a green hope, since hemp covers a wide range of uses in its variety of uses and its ecological importance.
The Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe gives its supplying organic farmers, for whom hemp is an important plant in crop rotation, the opportunity to market hemp products in their hemp beer in order to promote and stabilize the cultivation of the unique crop hemp and thus also organic farming.
Before the Purity Law was passed in 1516, house-specific herbal mixtures, the so-called "Gruit", were often used to bitter and flavor the beer. In some countries, the tradition of brewing with herbs has been preserved. Hemp was already a widespread crop at that time and was certainly also used to bitter beers in “Kruut/Gruit” because of its bitterness.
As part of the increasing share of scene drinks in the total beverage consumption, Cannabis Club Sud will certainly also find its fans as a mixed beer beverage.
Raw materials
Malt of the Viennese type blended with malt of the Pilsener type, both produced in a malthouse (currently Mälzerei Klostermalz Wirth Frauenaurach) with an organic processing contract, thus malt made from organic malting barley according to the organic processing guidelines.
They prefer to process lighter malt mixtures because we like to achieve a light colour through intensive mashing (boiling the malt-water mixture, the mash) and not through more roasted malts, which often have an unpleasantly bitter roasted aroma.
Only the finest Bioland aroma hops from the Hersbruck growing area are brewed in our hemp beer. A hemp beer also needs an appropriate addition of hops to round off the taste and for the brewing process. This is a little less than with a “normal” beer, since the hemp already has a certain bitterness.
Their brewing water comes from a brewery's own, controlled source. They are in the fortunate position of being able to process the water from these springs, which corresponds to the composition (e.g. very calcareous) of our landscape (Franconian Switzerland) and its geology.
The quality of the water (the nitrate values are even below the requirements of the organic farming guidelines of max. 25 mg / liter) makes it possible for they're brewing their beers with “active” spring water and not having to pump up “dead” water from great depths. We prefer to process hemp from ecological cultivation. This almost THC-free fiber hemp is used as an essential oil during the brewing process.
