The Ultimate Solventless Rosin Pressing Resource
How to Test The Quality of Your Hash
Ice water extraction is the gold standard for making the best hash, a process that lets hash makers collect the trichome heads of the cannabis plant and leave all other plant material behind. Anything besides resin heads is considered contamination, which would include trichome stalks, minuscule plant particles, chlorophyll, and foreign objects like dirt or insect parts.
Trichome heads contain the highest concentrations of the most desirable therapeutic compounds that cannabis produces, which is what makes them so very valuable to solventless extraction artists.
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Introducing The Press Club x Byrd Extracts Temple Ball Roller - What Is It & How To Use It
The exact science behind what’s happening within a Temple Ball remains mostly unknown, yet there are certainly chemical processes taking place, a natural interaction between the various components of cannabis trichomes and the resin they produce.
Looking like an ordinary ball of resin, rolled together with no more thought than a child would roll a ball of play-doh
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How To Properly Prepare Your Whole Plant Fresh Frozen Material for Washing Hash
Whole Plant Fresh Frozen, or WPFF, refers to cannabis plant material that’s covered in resin and frozen immediately after harvesting, and in preparation for ice water extraction. Hash makers wash this WPFF to collect loose resin and make it into pressed hash (Temple Balls) or rosin. Whole Plant Fresh Frozen is regarded as the premium starting material for making hash. Freezing the cannabis immediately after harvest minimizes terpene loss and helps preserve the freshness that’s found in the living cannabis plant.
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Top Tips To Consider When Setting Up and Running Your Hash Lab
Setting up your lab for washing hash is crucial to producing top quality and consistent loose resin. A clean and controlled environment plays a role in preserving the purity of the hash by preventing contaminants from getting into your hash. Maintaining temperature conditions is essential to keep the hash intact and easy to handle throughout the process ensuring its quality doesn't deteriorate. This uniformity in conditions leads to a process that consistently delivers a high-quality product.
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How To Modify a 20-Gallon Washing Machine for Washing Bubble Hash
20-gallon Bubble Magic Washing Machines are ideal for hash makers who need more than a mini washer, but don’t quite have the budget for a full commercial-grade set up. A 20-gallon machine is a perfect in-between for labs that aim for greater solventless output before investing in a large-scale build. Although the Bubble Magic 20-gallon is technically ready to use right out of the box, there is one modification specifically that can make a world of a difference: changing out the drainage hose.
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How To Create An Integrated Water Collection Vessel
Washing hash involves a lot of water. From the mixing vessel, through the sieving bags, and then out for drainage, water flows throughout the process. A slapdash setup can lead to water sloshing around everywhere, potentially ending up in the floor creating operational hazards and an overall sloppy environment. This is not what we want in the lab.
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Top 10 Reasons for Using a False Bottom While Washing
What is a false bottom on a washing vessel for ice water extraction? A false bottom is a flat, stainless steel insert that fits into the bottom of a washing vessel. With a circumference matching that of the washing vessel, false bottoms look like either grated or swiss cheese steel plates. False bottoms contain many small holes which keep ice from settling against the very bottom of the washing vessel, while allowing trichomes to fall through for collection later.
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Step-By-Step Tutorial On How To Collect The Terpenes From A Freeze Dryer
Loose resin isn’t the only solventless concentrate you can pull from your freeze dryer. With just a few basic supplies and a straightforward process, you can collect solventless terpenes from the freeze dryer after the drying cycle is complete. Let’s take a look at the tools and techniques you need to collect terpenes from your freeze dryer.
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How To Dab Bubble Hash the Right Way
Most solventless extraction artists use loose resin, or bubble hash, to make rosin for dabbing. Although it’s not as common to dab bubble hash as it is to dab rosin, the finest quality hash is actually great for dabbing. If you know the right techniques, loose resin can actually rival rosin dabs.
Can’t you just dab bubble hash the same way you dab rosin? Yes you can, but there are certain ways you can improve bubble hash dabs.
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Washing Hash: Ice vs Iceless Water Extraction
Ice water extraction is the method of removing trichomes from the cannabis flowers on which they grow to produce a solventless extract called bubble hash. Ice Water extraction, or washing hash, involves using cold water and a set of nylon sieves, called bubble wash bags. Hash makers mix together cold water and cannabis material to remove the trichomes from the material, then filter out the trichomes using the sieving bags.
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Introducing The Press Club’s 5G and 32G Stainless Steel Vessels
A washing vessel is the central piece of equipment in the ice water extraction process for making hash. Mixing together ice-cold water and cannabis material, hash makers isolate the trichome heads which contain the prized ingredients for solventless concentrates. Everything starts with the loose resin, and washing vessels are where the magic happens.
With seamless construction using top-quality, food-safe stainless steel, The Press Club’s advanced design facilitates fluid transfer and optimizes the efficiency and integrity of your hash-making process.
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What's the Difference: Home vs. Pharmaceutical Harvest Right Freeze Dryers & What We Recommend For Drying Bubble Hash
Freeze drying utilizes the process of sublimation to remove moisture from wet objects. Most commonly used for drying and preserving food, freeze dryers also work great for drying loose resin, or bubble hash. While it’s possible to allow wet hash to air dry loose resin through the process of evaporation, sublimation inside a freeze dryer speeds up the process, reducing oxidation and preserving more terpenes.
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Harvest Right Pharmaceutical Firmware 4.0.56 - Required Update For Home Freeze Dyers
The Harvest Right brand of freeze dryers is arguably the best brand for drying bubble hash. However, there are two separate versions of Harvest Right freeze dryers that include different default settings, and this leads to a difference in performance between the two. These two versions are the home and pharmaceutical Harvest Right freeze dryers.
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How To Make Tincture Using Bubble Hash or Rosin
Tinctures offer an alternative way to ingest cannabis without smoking or vaping. Dabbing is the most popular way to enjoy rosin, while smoking is common for high-quality bubble hash. But both bubble hash and rosin can also make great sources for creating potent tinctures. Tinctures themselves have something in common with our favorite solventless cannabis products: they’re straightforward to make with minimal equipment right from home.
What Is a Tincture?
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How to Use a Harvest Right Freeze Dryer to Make Bubble Hash (& Recommended Shelf Temp / Freeze Times)
Freeze drying is the ideal way to dry bubble hash. Loose resin that’s collected using ice water extraction comes out wet. If it’s not properly dried, it can quickly and easily get moldy. While it’s definitely possible to air dry bubble hash, and create a premium hash while doing so, there are some downsides to air drying. Air drying takes several days, and requires lots of space to spread the trichomes in a thin layer. Air drying also allows oxidation to occur
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Can You Use the Same Water To Wash Bubble Hash Multiple Times?
Collecting loose resin via ice water extraction is a relatively low-cost and extremely effective way to make bubble hash. Everything starts with high quality cannabis material which are the mature flowers and trichome-covered leaves that surround them. Mixing cannabis with ice-cold water creates an environment where trichomes (most notably the globe-shaped heads of the trichomes) can fall away from the plant they once grew from. The heads get mixed in with everything else until the hash maker sieves them through a series of filters called bubble wash bags.
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How to Use Gravity to Drain Water from a Bubble Hash Washing Vessel
Washing hash involves two main stages, agitating cannabis and ice water together, then running that water through a series of sieving bags called bubble wash bags. Agitation happens inside a mixing vessel, which could be an automatic washing machine, or a simple bucket or barrel that allows hash makers to mix cannabis and ice water with a paddle by hand. Washing machines come with a drain already installed, although it’s a good idea to change out the drainage hose if it’s a corrugated hose.
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Top 10 Tips on How To Prepare Your Harvest for Fresh Frozen
Here at The Press Club, we love using fresh frozen cannabis to wash bubble hash. It’s tough to beat the explosive flavor, unmistakable aroma, and stunning clarity of loose resin that’s collected from cannabis harvested with fresh frozen preparations. Fresh frozen captures the most vibrant and unique qualities of the ripe cannabis flower, preserving terpenes and slowing down the process of oxidation to levels that dried and cured buds can’t match.
While correctly harvesting cannabis for fresh frozen starting material isn’t the only trick to producing
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Hash Wash Labeling: First vs Second Wash and Microns Collected
Hash makers collect loose resin multiple times, and from multiple wash bags, throughout the course of washing a single batch of cannabis material. The loose resin, or bubble hash, is gathered throughout the process in increments rather than collected in aggregate at the very end. This allows hash makers to differentiate between resin collected from the first wash all the way to the last wash, and from each individual sieving bag.
The two primary phases of washing hash are mixing/agitation, and sieving.
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How Does Terpene Volatility Affect Hash Rosin?
Bubble hash and rosin are two solventless cannabis concentrates both capable of chaning texture and consistency in rapid, sometimes unpredictable ways. This propensity for transformation is possible thanks to the volatile nature of high quality hash. So what is volatility, and how does it affect hash?
Volatility can be defined as the tendency of a substance to evaporate at normal temperatures. Terpenes are the most volatile compounds in hash, and it’s largely the terpene content that determines how volatile a specific run of hash will be. Terpenes are hydrocarbon compounds
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Gravity Drainage vs Hash Pump for Washing Bubble Hash
A hash pump is a specialized pump that moves trichome-infused water from one vessel to another during the ice water extraction. Hash pumps automate the movement of water from the mixing vessel into the collection vessel, which otherwise needs to happen with the force of gravity. In labs with certain constraints that make using gravity suboptimal, hash pumps are a great alternative to moving water efficiently. And most importantly, in a way that doesn’t damage trichomes in the process.
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