{"id":4634,"date":"2022-01-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMiWGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmhhcnRmb3JkYnVzaW5lc3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdGhvbWFzLWhvb2tlci1icmV3aW5nLWNvLXBpdm90cy1pbnRvLWNiZC1kcmlua3PSAQA"},"modified":"2022-01-31T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T08:00:00","slug":"thomas-hooker-brewing-co-pivots-into-cbd-drinks-hartford-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=4634","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Hooker Brewing Co. pivots into CBD drinks &#8211; Hartford Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartfordbusiness.com\/sites\/default\/files\/indesign-import\/images\/Brian_Tuller_and_Curt_opt.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Hooker Brewing Co. has been diversifying its portfolio recently by making some non-beer drinks, like its \u201cChill AF\u201d CBD seltzer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really different sort of product,\u201d said Thomas Hooker Owner Curt Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said he got the idea when he was asked to speak on a panel in Massachusetts that also featured representatives from two cannabis companies. After researching more about CBD \u2006\u2014 the non-psychoactive chemical in cannabis that has therapeutic use for some \u2014 he wanted to get into the market.<\/p>\n<p>He said he noticed that many other companies in the space weren\u2019t providing high-quality products, often relying on marketing to sell their goods. Chill AF seltzers tout high-quality CBD and come in several natural flavors, according to Thomas Hooker\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized how much garbage is out there in the CBD market space,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cWe\u2019ve built our own lab and we\u2019re actually creating our own CBD-emulsions with high-pressure homogenization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron said the CBD drink is Thomas Hooker\u2019s fastest-growing brand and each batch comes with lab results available online that show what\u2019s in the product.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Customers] can look up every single batch that we\u2019ve done to prove that what we say is in the can is actually in there,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cWe\u2019re selling it on science and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hooker Brewing Co. has been diversifying its portfolio recently by making some non-beer drinks, like its \u201cChill AF\u201d CBD seltzer. \u201cIt\u2019s a really different sort of product,\u201d said Thomas Hooker Owner Curt Cameron. Cameron said he got the idea when he was asked to speak on a panel in Massachusetts that also featured representatives from two cannabis companies. After researching more about CBD \u2006\u2014 the non-psychoactive chemical in cannabis that has therapeutic use for some \u2014 he wanted to get into the market. He said he noticed that many other companies in the space weren\u2019t providing high-quality products, often&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}