We're thrilled to share this conversation between Sonoma Sungrown and The Bryantist from a recent episode of the Homegrown Hashishan Podcast here on our blog. Thanks to the team at Homegrown Hashishan for making it happen!

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Sonoma Sungrown: Today, we're excited to welcome a special guest—a Hashish educator from California, the Bryantist. We're thrilled to have him on the show. How's it going, Bryantist? Thanks for joining us so early!

The Bryantist: Yeah, thanks for having me. I’m happy to be here. I'm up in Ukiah, California, just going about my day, working from my van. It’s always an adventure out here in Mendocino.

Sonoma Sungrown: So your van is all set up to keep you moving and making fresh rosin, right?

The Bryantist: Yeah, exactly. It’s got freezers, a bed, a fridge—the essentials. You have to stay mobile sometimes to get fresh rosin where it needs to go.

Sonoma Sungrown: Sounds like you’re living the Northern California life! You mentioned you're from Sonoma County?

The Bryantist: Yep, born and raised in Cloverdale, a small town in Sonoma County. I've always loved the Northern California vibe. Especially in the fall, you can smell the plants in people’s backyards. There’s something special about that time of year around here.

Sonoma Sungrown: Yeah, I know what you mean. I live in Santa Rosa, and it’s the same. Walking through neighborhoods, you just know what's going on in people’s gardens.

The Bryantist: Exactly, especially in small towns like mine. Everyone knew each other, and my first job was helping a friend’s family trim their weed. They'd pay you either $100 to $200 per pound or an ounce of weed for each pound you trimmed, so you could earn your own medicine.

Sonoma Sungrown: It sounds like a laid-back way to get involved in the community. Was your family part of the scene?

The Bryantist: Not really. My dad was a hippie from San Francisco, so he definitely smoked weed, but in the '90s, it wasn’t as accepted. Parents had to hide it, so we weren’t involved in that way. But somehow, it still called to me, and I ended up helping with trimming.

Eventually, I got more interested in the processing side of things. In 2007, I learned hash-making from a local legend we called the Reverend Hash Man. He was an ordained minister, always making hash, super chill. He even made and rode around on tall bikes.

Don't Worry Be Hashy: We need to start a hash religion, with hash churches in every city!

The Bryantist: I’m all for it! Reverend Hash Man would be leading the ceremonies for sure. He was the type who didn’t sell hash. If you wanted some, he'd just invite you over, get you high, and that was it—good vibes all around.

It was really cool learning from the Reverend Hash Man. We were working with those small washing machines, the plastic ones, doing 15-minute cycles because that’s what the timer was set for. Just the classic way of life, running trim most of the time, but I learned a lot. That was back in 2007.

Sonoma Sungrown: In terms of your industry experience, how did you transition to the commercial side of things? Did that start back in the Prop 215 days?

The Bryantist: Yeah, it was definitely a progression. One of my bigger gigs from 2013 to 2016 was running larger trim operations. My partner and I would hop in the van and head deep into Humboldt, past Garberville, Alder Point, and Blocksburg, all the way out on dirt roads, completely off the grid. We’d stay there for a month or two during the harvest season, usually October and November. 

It was an amazing time—back in the Prop 215 days, when it was technically still illegal. There was a lot of paranoia, but we worked hard. They were growing thousands of plants, mainly sour diesel and green crack, which really dates the flavors. It was intense work, but you could trim two pounds a day per person, and we’d work straight for a month or two. It was a beautiful experience.

The pay was solid too. You could get paid in cash, but often I’d take payment in trim. A lot of farmers didn’t want to deal with the trim, so instead of money, I’d come away with a few hundred pounds of it. For the last week of the season, I’d spend my time sifting through trim bins with screens and came down the hill with eight pounds of sour diesel kief and four pounds of green crack kief—12 pounds in total.

This was back in 2014, before rosin was really a thing. At that time, I was taking the kief and pressing it with a little warmth and pressure, trying to get it to look more like hash. I’d heat up a spoon, use parchment paper, and press it into hash-like blocks. One time, I pressed it, and some liquid oozed out around the edges. I thought it was water and didn’t think much of it, but in hindsight, it was probably an early form of rosin. I was just missing a bit of filtration. So, I was almost there, just one step away from making actual rosin.

Sonoma Sungrown: It seemed like the industry consciousness was already moving toward the rosin tech, but I have to give massive props to Phil Salazar, aka SoilGrown Solventless. He’s a true legend, and he deserves all the credit for not only stumbling onto rosin but also sharing the tech with the community rather than hoarding it. He put it out there for everyone, and that’s why the scene is where it is today—so evolved, with so much new tech. It’s why I believe in sharing knowledge and being part of the community because that’s how we keep progressing.

The Bryantist: But to your question—skipping ahead from the trim scene into the extraction side—I can tell you we were living the nomad life for a while. We’d trim for a couple of months, make some hash, and then travel for the rest of the year. We had a van, so we’d hit the road, visit family, come back for harvest season, and just rinse and repeat. We did that for about three years, and it was amazing. But legalization was looming. By 2017, the laws were about to change, and by 2018, everything was going into effect. I saw that happening and knew things were shifting.

In 2015, right before the big legal changes, I was still riding the tail end of the trim scene, pressing keif here and there. But back then, BHO (butane hash oil) was really prevalent, and I started open blasting like a lot of people. We were doing it outside, but the tech was super sketchy. I was using glass tubes, packing them with keif, which was risky because it made a lot of pressure. The purging process was rough back then, and honestly, it just wasn’t my vibe. Around that time, I was also taking a two-year break from smoking, so I wasn't really into the BHO scene.

There wasn’t much tech or knowledge out there yet. It was still very much trial and error. No one was really teaching the methods—there weren’t even rosin presses at that time. So, we were just working with what we had. You’d run the hair straightener for a second, then notice it was bubbling and steaming, so you’d turn it off, let it cool, and try again. The lowest those things would go was around 230°F, so it was a lot of trial and error. I had plenty of keif to experiment with, though, so I spent a lot of time figuring it out.

Eventually, I broke those hair straighteners, cracked them right in half. But I didn’t stop there—I took them apart, epoxied them to a bench vise, and made my own DIY press. You’d just turn it on for a second, then off. If you scroll back on my Instagram, you’ll find some posts about it. It still works to this day. Someday, I’ll probably end up putting it in a Rosin museum!

After that, I was on a mission to scale things up, so I bought a 12x12 shirt press. I thought I needed the biggest metal heat plates possible, but that wasn’t the move either. Those presses wouldn’t go below 250°F, so I was still in the same on-and-off situation, using a heat gun to manage temperatures.

I kept experimenting with what I had, but the tools just weren’t fully there yet. Eventually, low temp plates came out with a set of pucks that could fit into a Harbor Freight press, so I went ahead and did that. It was a slow progression, but things really started moving forward in 2016 and into 2017.

At that point, the scene was evolving, but I knew I didn’t want to jump through all the legal hoops to launch a licensed brand. I had been doing some solventless work under the name Baskin Rosins in the traditional market. It was a fun brand name, but I realized it wasn’t something I could scale or push into the legal market without running into a cease-and-desist. So, I started looking around for my next move.

In my hometown, there was a licensed cannabis facility called Beezle Extracts. They’d been in the game since 2012 and were known for their large-scale BHO extraction. By 2017, I joined Beezle, knowing I wanted to be part of a licensed brand. But my real goal was to introduce solventless extraction to Beezle. They had dabbled in hash, but the solventless scene, especially rosin, wasn’t fully there yet.

I started at the bottom, just doing packaging. It was cool to have a legal job in the cannabis industry, and I got to package some fire extracts with really unique textures. It was a great learning experience. There was also a lot of movement within the company, and I saw an opportunity to work my way up into extraction. I did well with packaging and soon found myself helping out with extraction.

To really make it in extraction at Beezle, the goal was to become proficient enough to run three closed-loop systems on my own for an entire day.

I was usually part of a small team working on a lot of fresh frozen runs, handling some really fire material, especially around 2017 and 2018. The quality of the material was incredible, with the perfect texture, color, and terpenes that were typically destined for solvent extraction. At the time, we were a bit behind on the rosin side. The flower guys, particularly the growers, were hesitant to let us squish their flower, saying, “You’re really going to squish my flower?” They weren’t fully on board, and the same went for the hash makers—they couldn’t understand why we would want to squish their hash when they were already happy with their full melt or traditional hash.

Being a second-source hash maker and not having my own grow, I relied heavily on working with farmers, which is a critical aspect of the process. For those growing their own material, they had more control, but I was often at the mercy of what was available. And for a while, most of the quality material was going to solvent extraction. 

I stayed at Beezle for about four years, and after a couple of years, I transitioned into handling more post-processing and some lab management duties. At that point, we had a couple of people extracting, and I was overseeing runs to ensure everything got done smoothly. A big part of my role was whipping up butter, processing anywhere from five to ten pounds of butter a day, four to five days a week, for over a year. I hand-whipped hundreds of pounds of extracts, which was when I developed my technique and created a specific hand tool that made it possible to mix all these extracts without causing myself injury, like tennis elbow.

Having the right ergonomic tools is key to longevity in this field. I've been involved in hash-making, post-processing, and manipulating textures for years, and it definitely takes a toll on your body—your hands, wrists, and shoulders all take a beating. I used to experiment with mechanical whipping, especially around 2018, when the rosin scene was still evolving, but I quickly learned the importance of finesse. 

At Beezle, we occasionally used a scientific drill mixer when hand whipping didn’t work, but only in worst-case scenarios. If you’ve got the right balance of THCA content and terpenes, you can do the job with just the right amount of agitation and heat. A little warmth, maybe 80 to 90 degrees, and you can start mixing, whipping, or packaging without putting unnecessary strain on your body. Even for cold material, adding just a bit of heat makes it easier to handle without sacrificing quality.

From there, I dove deep into learning the nuances of temperature, time, and agitation, realizing that strain-specific factors like terpene and THCA ratios play a huge role in how each strain behaves. That was something I had to understand to perfect the post-processing.

During this period, I saw a lot of gatekeeping in the industry, especially when it came to textures. Even when I was working with solvents, it was during the height of the “sauce and diamond” craze, where everyone was chasing the biggest diamonds possible. I remember growing a massive 9-gram diamond—it just sat in a Mason jar in an oven at 90 degrees for two months. We had forgotten about it, but it turned into an amazing specimen. It was a fascinating lesson in cannabis chemistry and how the material behaves under different conditions.

While I was at Beezle, I always continued solventless work on the side for myself and friends. My mission was clear: if you can achieve these textures and results with solvents, then you can do it with solventless techniques too. The same compounds are at play—THCA and terpenes are the magic. The butane isn’t magic; it’s just a tool for extraction. What really matters is what's in the plant, and that’s what we can work with to create incredible results.

In 2020, I decided to leave Beezle and found myself at Heritage Mendocino in Ukiah, the world’s first public cannabis hashery. It was the perfect next step for me, focusing solely on solventless techniques in a space that celebrated that craft.

If I'm only as good as what I get, I can put fire tech on mids, but it's still going to be mids. You really have to cultivate a good relationship and keep up with it. You've got to keep the growers happy, communicate a lot, and make sure you're on the same page. It's crucial to find good quality growers and be able to talk to them, visit the grow, and spend time with the plant. Just because you’re not growing it doesn’t mean you can’t learn and understand it. I’ve spent so much time trimming, harvesting, packaging for fresh frozen—it all matters.

Sonoma Sungrown: The farmer needs help on the resin side, and you need experience on the growing side. So, it’s a symbiotic relationship. That’s your most important factor if you're a second-source extractor like myself. All these years, I’ve been at the mercy of what I’m running, and if it's something from a couple of years ago, there’s just no promises.

Don't Worry Be Hashy: Yeah, those growers aren’t just looking to produce another product for patients; they truly appreciate the craft.

Quick question. I’ve got friends bringing material from their home grow this year—just their legal six plants—and we’re not doing a split or anything. We just want to wash it in my garage since I’ve got a freeze dryer. But they’ve got to drive up from Marin, which is about an hour north of here. What would you recommend for moving fresh frozen material if you don’t have the proper kit, like an inverter and deep freeze in a van?

The Bryantist: Ideally, as cold as possible for as long as possible. If all you’ve got is an ice chest, throw in a couple of layers of ice—one on the bottom, material in the middle, and another layer on top. If you can get dry ice, even better. That’s ultra-cold and will preserve the terps. If this is competition-quality material, you need to preserve those terps with dry ice—it’s the coldest and works the longest.

If you’re working with a bit more material and have access to a chest freezer, freeze some one-gallon bottles of water to retain thermal mass. You can create a kind of chilled case that will stay cold for a while, even for a decent drive. I personally use a solar panel and an inverter in my van, which converts 12 volts to 120, allowing me to plug in multiple freezers. That way, I know for sure everything stays frozen solid. Also, if it's summertime, definitely drive at night to avoid heat exposure. It’s all about keeping things cold.

Sonoma Sungrown: Thanks, that’s really helpful. Problems of scale, right? Going from operating huge machines at Heritage to working with smaller setups at home. Is that when you started with the sculptures? I remember seeing you make things like axe handles with taffy tech. Can you talk about how that came about?

The Bryantist: Technically, I was doing sculptures and taking pictures before that, but it was BHO back then. They were really cool, but it was during that era of not showing your tech or what you were doing. If you look far enough back on my page, you’ll find videos of mixing different resins with crazy colors and textures. But yeah, at Heritage, it really took off because we were producing so much resin so quickly. We were running three of the low temp presses...

We had a manifold system that allowed us to juggle multiple presses at once. We were highly optimized for throughput, running 60 to 90 grams per press, and since we had three presses going, we were producing a quarter pound of rosin every five or six minutes. We were moving so much material that it became hard to keep track of everything.

I’ve scaled down a lot because I recently became a parent. Finding that balance between maintaining quality control and efficiency has been challenging, but it’s also important. Big shout-out to all the cannabis parents out there! It’s all about balancing work with family, and optimizing your workflow to be as efficient as possible is crucial, especially as a parent.

Don't Worry Be Hashy: I’m in the same boat. I’m constantly looking into ways to speed things up—like washing machines—to spend more time with my family and less time breaking my back. In the beginning, I enjoyed the physical labor because I work from home, but eventually, you realize it’s not sustainable. Moving around five-gallon buckets of RO water and lifting 10-gallon collection vessels manually gets exhausting, and at some point, you’re bound to get hurt.

As for post-processing, one of the things I’ve noticed is how different terpenes affect how greasy a product will be, especially when it’s pressed in the bags. What are the things you look at when reading the resin before you get to the point of sifting and handling it?

The Bryantist: For me, I focus on trichome stability and the smell. Anytime there’s a heavy citrus presence with high limonene content, it’s going to grease up in the bag faster. Resin texture plays a big role here, too. If the trichomes feel sandy or tacky, it’s usually a good sign that there’s a solid amount of resin with good THCA content. On the flip side, if it feels slippery or lotion-like, it’s usually high in limonene or other citrus terpenes, which tend to create a thinner cell wall. During agitation, these terpenes can leak out.

Sonoma Sungrown: You’re right. Citrus terpenes mixed with a thinner trichome skin tend to wash away more easily. When we agitate the resin heads, it’s almost like creating a wound, opening up space where cannabinoids and flavonoids can be lost. It’s a delicate process, but when done right, you can gently remove the heads, wash them, and still preserve all the good stuff inside.

The Bryantist: If you don’t have the luxury of feeling the plant in its early stages, you’ll have to gauge things during the hash-making process. At that point, it’s more about adjusting based on what the material tells you. You can start to predict the final texture—whether it will be drier and stiffer with high THCA content or saucier with a higher terpene ratio.

Don't Worry Be Hashy: That makes sense. For me, I tend to make those decisions right off the press. If it’s easy to handle, it’s usually a good candidate for fresh press, especially when the terpene percentage is lower and the THCA content is higher. But when that happens, I notice it tends to crumble quicker and isn’t as stable in a jar, so I end up applying heat to keep it more stable and presentable.

The Bryantist: Exactly. Some batches naturally want to batter up and become juicy due to the terpene structure. But people often ask me how to deal with dry rosin, and to me, that’s not a problem. It just means you’ve got a higher concentration of THCA, which is what you want.

The next phase is that you’ll start to see it melt down further. Once it goes past that chalky, nucleated point, the rosin will begin to liquefy. As it melts, you’re aiming for it to become more fluid while maintaining a slight viscosity. This is where the strain-specific variations come into play, as each strain will behave differently when exposed to heat. Some strains will start breaking down faster, while others will hold their shape longer.

So when you're watching this process, the idea is to allow the rosin to melt down evenly without rushing it. Once it hits that more liquid state, you’re at the point where it's no longer in a butter form, and this is where the true sauce begins to form. The terpenes and cannabinoids start separating, and you can sometimes see the THC-A crystals forming at the bottom while the terpenes rise to the top, creating that iconic terp layer. 

At this point, your sauce is well on its way, and from here, you can either stop and jar it up, or you can go further if you're aiming for a more refined, high-terpene extract. It’s all about experimenting and understanding the behavior of your rosin during this process. 

A key tip for anyone attempting this at home: keep an eye on it and adjust accordingly. If you see it getting too runny or soupy, reduce the heat slightly, or if it’s not melting as expected, bump the temperature up a bit. Each batch of rosin will react differently, but that’s part of the fun—playing with the variables to create your ideal texture.

So at that point, you've got a few options depending on your setup. You can use a vac oven if you've got one, which is ideal for maintaining a stable heat for long periods. The vac oven's heated sides ensure even heating and allow you to maintain that temperature for as long as you need. But if you don’t have a vac oven, don’t worry—there are other creative ways to keep your rosin at the right temp. Some people use seedling or clone mats, which provide a consistent low heat, while others have even used the top of their Xbox or PlayStation as a heat source! The key here is to keep it in that 80-100°F range, where it can incubate slowly and allow the crystals to fully form.

Don't Worry Be Hashy: The seed mat is my budget friendly option. I just stuff a rag in the top and bottom and put a rubber band around it. 

The Bryantist: When you’re doing this, the goal is to create that sauce texture, where the THCA crashes out and forms the crystals, while the terpenes separate and form a more liquidy layer. And that can take some time. You might see it start to happen within a day or two, but it could also take up to a week. So patience is key here, especially if you're working with different strains, as they all behave differently. For example, GMO might crash out in just a couple of days, while other strains could take a week or longer.

Once you've gone through that process, you’ll end up with a really nice sauce, where you can see those clear, defined crystals of THCA suspended in the terpene-rich liquid. At this point, you can decide whether you want to keep it as is, or whip it up into a different texture. There are lots of different ways to manipulate it once you have that sauce—some people like to mix it back into itself to create a more homogenous consistency, while others prefer to leave it as a two-part product with the terps and crystals separate. It really just comes down to your preference and what your end product goal is.

So, when you're working with different processes like mechanical separation, there are a lot of variables at play that can impact your results. One thing I've noticed is that people in the solventless community tend to be overly cautious about things like oxygen exposure, temperatures, and curing times. For example, some people go as far as vacuum sealing their jars to remove air before curing, but in my experience, that's not always necessary. While it's a good preservation method, it's not a make-or-break factor for creating high-quality sauce or diamonds.

This can be useful if you're dealing with terpenes that have undesirable colors or flavors, and it’s definitely a method worth experimenting with.

However, mechanical separation is typically more time-consuming. It often takes hours—some processes even span six hours, starting at lower temperatures like 110°F and gradually increasing heat and pressure. The key is getting the THCA to crash out while expelling the terpenes, but it requires patience and the right setup, especially if you're doing this at scale.

In my experience, I've been able to speed up the process by pressing fresh press directly onto screens. I’ve seen results in as little as 20 to 30 minutes, where most people take hours. Using this method, I apply pressure in stages, starting at around 150-160°F, which helps nucleate the THCA faster. I managed to achieve about a 50% conversion—meaning I separated 50% THCA from the terpenes in that short time frame, which is pretty solid for a mechanical separation.

That said, you can always fine-tune the process by experimenting with different variables like heat, pressure, and time. For instance, you could play with temperatures like 140°F or 150°F if you're working with buttered-up rosin, which contains nucleated THCA. It's important to remember that nucleate.

Sonoma Sungrown: Ultimately, the key takeaway is to keep experimenting and playing with your process to see what works best for your specific batch and conditions. There's a lot of room for optimization here, and it’s all about finding that sweet spot for efficiency and quality. ed THCA requires a higher temperature to melt down, often between 250-300°F, compared to when it's in butter form. So, by adjusting your temperatures and experimenting with these different factors, you might be able to achieve faster mechanical separations without compromising quality.

The Bryantist: Totally, hardware is evolving to match the progression of concentrates, and having the right tools makes all the difference in producing quality rosin carts. Over the years, I've experimented with all kinds of cartridges, trying to find the best option for preserving flavor and avoiding that “burnt out” taste after a few uses. The latest breakthrough I’ve found is with a fully food-grade ceramic cart from Eukera, which eliminates cotton wicking and offers consistent flavor all the way through. Their approach aligns with the way concentrates have been evolving over the past decade, and the hardware needs to keep up with that progress.

For me, while I love testing new rosin-focused carts, I still lean towards dabs and cold cure. Carts are more of a market necessity—they’re accessible and easy for consumers to use. Not everyone who smokes rosin will jump straight to dabbing, so carts offer a bridge for those people. I used to be against carts, especially due to the waste from disposables and batteries, but when I considered that people will buy them regardless, it became clear that it's about giving them a healthier, better alternative.

Sonoma Sungrown: The waste issue, from disposable carts to gloves in the lab, is a reality we have to face. We try to reduce waste, but at the end of the day, clean resin is the priority, and certain compromises have to be made, like burning through gloves to maintain sterile environments. It's a necessary cost to produce clean medicine.

The Bryantist: Bringing it all together, I think the core of all these different techniques—whether it’s cold curing, applying slight heat to help THCA crash out, or fully decarbing for carts—is about controlling time and texture. You're essentially manipulating mechanical processes to accelerate or decelerate chemical reactions. Like, when you apply heat, you're speeding up the cold cure process, giving you flexibility in how long you want the resin to sit. If you look at decarbing graphs, for instance, you’ll see temperature and time are the critical factors. Left alone, rosin will naturally degrade over time even at room temperature, but applying heat can accelerate certain changes, like making it butter up or crash out faster.

This is where the magic lies: you're able to take resin, press it at 150-180°F, and in this small window of time, it doesn’t immediately crash or nucleate. The resin gives you that golden extraction window where you can pull it into a perfect oil. Sometimes, you’ll encounter strains that behave unpredictably and flutter on the press, releasing terpenes after, but it’s fascinating how consistently you can extract high-quality oil within that window.

Temperature and time really do coexist, and every curing method revolves around “when do you need it” and “what texture are you aiming for?” If you’re working against the clock and need your product ready by Monday, you can accelerate the process with heat. If you have time, you can let it sit for a couple of weeks in a cold cure. Essentially, you’re guiding the rosin to achieve the texture you want, but in the end, the rosin also dictates its own outcome based on its strain-specific properties.

Sonoma Sungrown: It’s all about balance—understanding the interplay between temperature, time, and the natural behavior of the resin itself.

The Bryantist: With solventless extraction, especially, you're dealing with water-soluble compounds, so the challenge is keeping that purple hue intact through the process. From what you're saying, it sounds like you're experimenting with ways to reintroduce or preserve those anthocyanins throughout the extraction and curing phases, which is really interesting. I'd love to see where that research goes, especially since the visual appeal of resin is becoming more important in the market.

It also makes me wonder if there's a way to control or tweak environmental factors in the grow or post-harvest stages to boost anthocyanin expression. I've heard some people play around with things like colder temperatures towards the end of the flowering cycle to bring out purples and other colors in the resin. If you could combine that with your method of reintroducing anthocyanins, I bet you could develop some stunning concentrates with consistent color profiles.

Sonoma Sungrown: It sounds like you're really on the cutting edge of hash and resin extraction tech, and hosting a class to share your methods is going to be a game-changer. People are definitely going to want to learn about the nuances you've developed, especially when it comes to balancing anthocyanins for visual appeal without sacrificing flavor or effect. I imagine it’ll be a delicate process teaching that balance to students because, like you said, you can overdo it and end up with a concentrate that looks great but doesn’t taste quite right.

The Bryantist: The idea of anthocyanins showing up in the taste is something I hadn’t considered before. It really highlights how much chemistry and artistry goes into hash-making—you're not just looking for potency and yield but also a harmony of colors, textures, and flavors. That interplay between visual appeal and the sensory experience of taste is something that’s really becoming more important in the market, especially with the increasing popularity of solventless concentrates. 

I also love the idea of how this whole craft still feels like an ongoing experiment. The introduction of things like ultrasonic cleaners and centrifuges for faster cures is mind-blowing. It's incredible to think about how far the solventless extraction scene has come in just the past few years. The level of innovation, combined with the artistry you’re talking about, really makes it feel like a golden era for hash-making. I bet that even within the next few years, we'll see even more advanced tools and techniques become mainstream, much like what's happening now with ultrasonic cleaners or centrifuges.

Sonoma Sungrown: And yeah, I’ve seen your Neapolitan treatments—absolutely jaw-dropping! You’ve definitely captured the essence of combining science and art, and it's obvious that jar appeal has become a huge part of the equation. The way you're able to manipulate and elevate the aesthetics while still keeping the concentrate’s integrity intact is a real feat. What’s the next step for you in terms of innovating? Are there other concepts or methods you’re eager to explore after the hash class?

The Bryantist: The Neapolitan treatment really seems to have hit a sweet spot with the community, and I can see why—there's just something about that rich purple that captivates people. I love how you're blending the boundaries between food, art, and hash, creating something that almost looks too good to be true. It makes sense that purple would be a favorite color for this process; it’s vibrant and mysterious, and it adds a whole new layer to the visual appeal of your products. The idea of being able to control the color with anthocyanins opens up so many possibilities for creativity, and like you said, it turns hash into something almost otherworldly. People want to eat it just from looking at it!

Sonoma Sungrown: It’s inspiring to see how you use these posts to spark creativity in others. You're not just giving away the playbook, but you're giving people the inspiration and freedom to experiment and develop their own style. That’s the kind of leadership the community needs—encouraging innovation while staying humble about your own ongoing learning process. It must be so rewarding to see people send you their own Neapolitan jars after trying out the techniques you’ve shared. That’s when you know you’re truly making an impact.

The Bryantist: When you talk about solventless, it’s fascinating how each person's approach brings out different textures, flavors, and nuances, even when working with the same material. That uniqueness is what makes solventless extraction such an art form, and it’s great that you're fostering that individual creativity while also offering tools to support people's journey. I think the toolkit you’ve put together, combined with consultations, is such a smart way to empower the community. You're not just providing the tools—they come with the knowledge and guidance to help people take their craft to the next level.

Sonoma Sungrown: Your open-door policy for support is invaluable, and I can tell it’s making a huge difference for new hash makers. It’s not just about having the right scraper or hand tool—it’s the deeper knowledge, the technique, and the personal guidance that makes the biggest impact. And that’s where your willingness to be available on IG for questions is so powerful. You’re not just selling a product, you're creating a connection and building a community.

It's awesome that you’ve found a way to integrate your love for hash-making with a strong sense of responsibility to help the community grow, while still growing yourself. You’ve created something special that encourages others to explore, experiment, and learn, and it’s clear that you're truly making a difference. Thank you for sharing your insights, your experience, and your passion—it's clear that the community is better for it!

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