Hashco - Origins Hash Pack - Legal Smoke Report

[tobedetermined]

Hashco - Origins Hash Pack

Genetics: Unspecified hybrids
Grower/Producer: The Hash Corporation – Canada

Hash # 1 - Blonde
Overall Rating: For a low % hash, the high is very good but still no cigar for this one
Smell: mainly pine with a hint of lime
Taste: kief taste
Consistency: a crumbly greenish blonde pressed cube
Duration: medium
Potency: Tested @ 29% THC with <0.1% CBD

Hashco is one of the ‘shell’ companies in the Canadian cannabis scene but I don’t really mean that in any negative light. They have partnered with Medz Cannabis Inc who have a growing and a production facility in the Toronto suburbs. Medz also runs a farmgate store under the Royal Cannabis Supply Co moniker. I know that that is a lot of brands to throw at you but this seems to be the evolution of cannabis in Canada, particularity for the craft growers/producers. Co-ops, shared facilities and complementary partner companies help spread the costs and the risks.

The first product in this shared pack is a Blonde Hash. They call it hash but in reality it is pressed kief. It has the fibrous texture and taste of kief and the THC count of 29% confirms this. That said, it is a nice creeper high of OK – but not great – duration. The texture is loose fibre crumble so ropes are out of the question. I mention hash ropes because Hashco hit on a great marketing scheme by discovering and distributing the Hash Kettle made by mastahglass on IG. This has taken the Canadian hash community by storm and it is continuously sold out despite its $179 price. Not bad for a clear glass teapot with a hash hanger inside. But their own blond hash will not work in it since you can’t make a rope . . .

Yeah, this hash will be in the Don’t Rebuy pile.

That is a stolen pic of a hash kettle above. if you want to see it in use, Remo tries one in Hash Kettle Wednesday. I am hoping that Santa brings me one for Christmas. Or I would be just as happy with it's much cheaper imitator called the Happle. Do you hear me Santa?

Hash # 2 – Gold Seal Hash - Black
Overall Rating: Not much point in buying this again
Smell: what smell?
Taste: muted incense with a kiefish taste
Consistency: a nice soft black lump
Duration: short - medium
Potency: Tested @ 33.6% THC with 0.92% CBD

This is the 2nd sample of hash in the pack. It is their flagship hash, called Gold Seal Hash. They are using the Gold Seal name to associate their hash with the old (and new) imported black hash that was often stamped with a gold logo. Hell, even the local black market hash producers stamp their imitations with gold seals names now using stupid names like Mercedes and Rolex, so it was no surprise to see a legal producer use it. But of course, there is no gold seal on the hash because that would be against federal health regulations . . .

Anyways, this hash is another disappointment. The malleability, the colour, the look, the texture are all good but there is no smell. Even when I rip it apart and smell the chunk, I only ‘think’ I smell something. It is pressed kief like their blonde. You can smell it as it burns and taste it as it smokes. And the high is like a nice smooth road bump – it gets you up and it is fun but it doesn’t last long.

Another failure.

Available @ retail cannabis stores in Canada. $31.99 for 2 x 1 gram

 

[goingrey]

They call it hash but in reality it is pressed kief

Isn't that what hash is?

 

[tobedetermined]

Isn't that what hash is?

They are both cannabis resin but kief is not hash. Not in taste, texture or smell.

 

[goingrey]

They are both cannabis resin but kief is not hash. Not in taste, texture or smell.

You mean too lightly pressed? That's easy enough to fix.

Or too contaminated? Fixing gets difficult...

 

[tobedetermined]

Contaminants. And processing. Here is a pic of the blonde hash.

The blonde is dry. And full of contaminants. This tells me that they probably tumbled the product too long – obviously to maximize the return. Since their boardroom is filled with MBAs rather than anybody that actually might have seen or smoked a real imported hash, they decided WTF? And they released it as is and called it hash. But it isn’t. It is pressed kief.

In a traditional producing country they probably would have taken that shit and added moisture – water, tea, henna, goat piss – and then worked it with heat and pressure to do the partial decarbox that would turn it into a cheap soapbar. Or even simpler they could just add hash oil and press. This is what a lot of the Canadian legal producers do to get their hash up to a saleable 45%. Fuck flavour, as long as it hits.

Just as a contrast, here is a good 40% commercial hash that is next up for review. It looks gooey but that is just the resin glistening and while it is nicely formable, it isn’t particularly sticky. It smokes and tastes like a hash.

 

[goingrey]

Contaminants. And processing. Here is a pic of the blonde hash.

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The blonde is dry. And full of contaminants. This tells me that they probably tumbled the product too long – obviously to maximize the return. Since their boardroom is filled with MBAs rather than anybody that actually might have seen or smoked a real imported hash, they decided WTF? And they released it as is and called it hash. But it isn’t. It is pressed kief.

In a traditional producing country they probably would have taken that shit and added moisture – water, tea, henna, goat piss – and then worked it with heat and pressure to do the partial decarbox that would turn it into a cheap soapbar. Or even simpler they could just add hash oil and press. This is what a lot of the Canadian legal producers do to get their hash up to a saleable 45%. Fuck flavour, as long as it hits.

Just as a contrast, here is a good 40% commercial hash that is next up for review. It looks gooey but that is just the resin glistening and while it is nicely formable, it isn’t particularly sticky. It smokes and tastes like a hash.

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It won't get rid of the contaminants but you could always try the good old sole trick. Wrap it up and put it under the insole of your shoe and then walk around with it in there for a couple of days. No need to add oil, surely plenty in there, just gotta squeeze it out.

Nowadays people seem to talk about some kind of hot bottle tek more will have to look into that when I have some stuff to work with.

 

[tobedetermined]

Frenchy Cannoli pioneered the hot bottle technique for decarboxylating high quality ice water hash to create a 'temple ball' of hash, imitating the old school temple balls from Nepal.
His method works very well as long as you start with very good product. Here is one I made last week using his hot bottle method.

This:

Turned into this:

 

[goingrey]

Frenchy Cannoli pioneered the hot bottle technique for decarboxylating high quality ice water hash to create a 'temple ball' of hash, imitating the old school temple balls from Nepal.
His method works very well as long as you start with very good product. Here is one I made last week using his hot bottle method.

This:

Turned into this:

So you just work it with a bottle filled with hot water like cookie dough with a rolling pin?

 

[tobedetermined]

Exactly. Here is his video on YT Making Hash w Frenchy: Pressing - Video #4

 

[Hashislife]

Out of curiosity I looked at the Canadian online shops, the weed looks good (compared to what we can judge on a photo) on the other hand the hash does not really make you want to, there are exceptions, but they have almost all look like (poorly) compressed plant debris, or jelly leaf (powdered leaf + bho). I see the same thing in Europe with the cbd hash. If this is the future of legal hash, it's scary...

 

[subrob]

I just got a kettle! Took 3 drops before I was quick enough! Lol.
All I had when it got here was full melt. Which does not work either. But I just made some double sifted 150 micron pressed hash. Works so well in the kettle!! So stoked on it.

 

[tobedetermined]

I just got a kettle! Took 3 drops before I was quick enough! Lol.
All I had when it got here was full melt. Which does not work either. But I just made some double sifted 150 micron pressed hash. Works so well in the kettle!! So stoked on it.

Yeah. I saw your post on it and I am very curious. But I bubble and don't sift so I am wondering how I can make it dirty enough to work.

 

[subrob]

Yeah. I saw your post on it and I am very curious. But I bubble and don't sift so I am wondering how I can make it dirty enough to work.

I would say..well...I don't know a lot about bubble ...maybe do a 150 micron run then work backward if needed?

 

[tobedetermined]

It is very ironic that just as I am getting to know how to make really good hash that I have to make it worse to use a smoking device. But I still want too.

 

[subrob]

Isn't it? This is first time I haven't used the 200 mesh to clean it. Lol. But with traditional dry sift hash the 150 micron seems to be a standard.

 

[Hashislife]

It is very ironic that just as I am getting to know how to make really good hash that I have to make it worse to use a smoking device. But I still want too.

if your hash is too soft or sticky to smoke it well, the easiest way is to add a small percentage of powdered weed and mix well, during confinement, I mixed up to 20% cbd weed into my hash so that lasts me longer.

 

[tobedetermined]

Out of curiosity I looked at the Canadian online shops, the weed looks good (compared to what we can judge on a photo) on the other hand the hash does not really make you want to, there are exceptions, but they have almost all look like (poorly) compressed plant debris, or jelly leaf (powdered leaf + bho). I see the same thing in Europe with the cbd hash. If this is the future of legal hash, it's scary...

The flower is always dry. To pass Health Canada regulations most - if not all - is irradiated. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

The hash is - so far . . .

1) pressed kief
2) whatever plant matter mixed with oil
3) expensive bubble

There are a few makers trying to do it right but consumers want the high THC % and the cheap price that only the oiled hash gives them. We tend to forget that the hash from the 70s etc was usually not very potent. It was great tasting and each region was unique but I doubt that it ever rose above 30 - 40% THC and even that was very rare. Some Nepalese fingertip is the only one I can remember that I had back in the day that was truly spectacular.

 

[goingrey]

Out of curiosity I looked at the Canadian online shops, the weed looks good (compared to what we can judge on a photo) on the other hand the hash does not really make you want to, there are exceptions, but they have almost all look like (poorly) compressed plant debris, or jelly leaf (powdered leaf + bho). I see the same thing in Europe with the cbd hash. If this is the future of legal hash, it's scary...

LOL

The future is producers mixing BHO with random crap, and then consumers pressing the BHO out with a hair curling iron because they don't want to smoke the random crap.

 

[bibi40]

Frenchy Cannoli pioneered the hot bottle technique for decarboxylating high quality ice water hash to create a 'temple ball' of hash, imitating the old school temple balls from Nepal.
His method works very well as long as you start with very good product. Here is one I made last week using his hot bottle method.

This:

Turned into this:

nice one bro !

if i can , my advice is to let it sit like thise like one month , then redo the hot bottle tech ,
that' s how i get the best results , hot bottle tech twice with one month sit between ,

anyway great ball

 

[goingrey]

Have you guys seen this, a real rolling pin you can fill with water..

Rolling Pin

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