After last week’s round of new REC beverage offerings at the Ontario Cannabis Store sold out in under 24 hours, consumer responses have begun to trickle in.
- Pot stocks rabblerouser Betting Bruiser dismissed Tweed’s Houndstooth and Soda Water as “Cat Piss and Soda,” while husband-and-wife review team WhatsMyPot said the drink “Tastes like a flower farted into a can of club soda.” They said it needed more sugar, but others who prefer less were happy with the product.
Twitter–@WhatsMyPot, @Jennav5 - Responses to Valens’ Summit: “Lacroix without carbonation,” and “flat Fresca in a good way.”
Twitter–@DabGooLay, @CalyxTrichomes
Consumers have begun experimenting with powdered infusers, with which they can add cannabinoids to any drink.
Twitter–@hartsteinfeld, @ashleighshecann
Depending on whom you ask, the 2.0 rollout is either going well — an RBC analyst said the rollout has been stronger than expected) — or poorly –a CIBC Capital Markets analyst expressing surprise “at the lack of readiness for the launch of derivative products”.
BNN Bloomberg, Twitter–@matt_lamers
