Regardless of its legal status, as with any beer ingredient, Brew Hub will still need regulatory approval before any finished product using CBD hits the market.

“It still has to be approved,” Schoen said. “It’s not like we can just stick it in beer and cans and just go for it.”

Ottolini said Brew Hub is in the “pilot phase” of product development and hopes to have hemp beverages available for sale sometime in the first quarter of next year.

He said the finished products could encompass beers but also hard carbonated water or seltzer alternatives.

As for what those products might taste like, Ottolini said that’s a tough question to answer.

“It has a taste but not a flavor, if that makes sense,” he said, adding that it ultimately depends on the accompanying “delivery method” — much the way marijuana products can differ if smoked, vaped or consumed in things such as gummy bears or hard candy.

He says that maybe a drink won’t win out as the CBD “delivery method” of choice in the end. But Brew Hub and Isodiol are committed to giving it a shot.