HOW TO USE IT
The Terpene Tasting Kit works much like a wine or a chocolate tasting kit except that it uses the six superclasses of terpenes as a framework for developing your palate. Comparable classification systems are found in beer: Stouts, Bocks, IPAs, Lagers, Pilsners, etc. and colors: Blue, Red, Orange, White, Black, etc. There’s a lot of different variations, but we start with learning the framework. Kind of like when you learned the names of colors; Blue can be Aqua, Navy, Chromatic, Teal or Midnight, but they’re all Blue. What we’re learning is the language that we can use to start describing to each other our experiences. Just as you would describe a beer you enjoyed as ‘a citrusy IPA’ we have a shared understanding of a ‘leathery Myrcene’ or a ‘peppery Caryophyllene’.
The Kit contains two exercises that you can do by yourself or with friends. The exercises are self-paced and will require additional things like jars and common aromatics, although I highly recommend that you go crazy and start noticing the smell of everything! Hot pavement, a new tennis ball, leather, wet forest floor, smell it all!
Why classify by terpenes? Because we test for them in the COA, it’s verifiable in ways that ‘Sweet, Earthy, Fruit, Floral and Fuel’ is not.
The Terpene Tasting Kit has myriad applications in both the business world as well as for the cannabis connoisseur.
Business
Farmers use it to demonstrate to buyers that their products have the desired terpene profiles.
Brokers use it to verify that their purchase has the terpene profile they are looking for.
From farms to dispensaries, it is an essential tool for educating new employees.
Consumer
Pay attention to how your body responds to different combinations and ratios of terpenes so that you are empowered to curate your experience:
- Deep dive with a guided meditation – try something Terpinolene dominant
- Your space needs a cleaning/reorg – Limonene
- Officially done for the day – Myrcene/Caryophyllene
How you respond to consuming a cannabis flower is completely dependent on your unique physiology with results falling somewhere on a three or four dimensional spacial scatterplot. With that said, most people fall within a range and we use those ranges to guide our own exploration. It’s also possible to have a Paradoxical response, which means that your body responds in the opposite way of what it was supposed to do. Like people who drink coffee to go to sleep – in the world of plant medicine, if you have a paradoxical response to one thing, there’s a higher likelihood that you’ll have a paradoxical response to another thing.
Get the medicine you need:
- A deep, restorative sleep
- A balm for sore muscles
- An anti-inflammatory
*The terpene isolates are not for consumption, they are an educational tool.