Hash Rosin
Lazy Bee Gardens Partners with Knots Cannabis Produce Hash Rosin
Do you love concentrates? We do. Nothing beats a dab of high-quality, sustainably sungrown extracts. A fun part of dabbing is the process—picking a rig, torching a quartz nail or turning on the e-nail, then capping it off as you blow fat clouds. But what we love most is how concentrates capture the flavor of strains and bring out terpenes not always tasted in flower or joints.
Over the last seven years we’ve provided Clean Green Certified source material to the i502 industry for BHO and hydrocarbon extracts. However, solvent free is the crème de la crème, so we couldn’t be more excited to announce our partnership with Knots Cannabis for hash rosin. We spoke with their team to learn more about the hash rosin process and what sets solvent-free apart from all other extracts.
What is Hash Rosin?
What is Hash Rosin?
Hash rosin is a a solvent-free extract made from the biomass of cannabis. Processors like Knots Cannabis collect the bulbous trichomes of plant, dry them, then squish out the essential oils. Using ice, water, heat and pressure, hash rosin is the closest concentrated thumbprint of the cannabis plant in an extract form.
BHO or hydrocarbon concentrates take out some of the cannabinoids in the extraction process. With solventless extracts using only ice and water, you collect 100 percent of the cannabinoid profile. “It doesn’t make it better or worse,” says the Knots Cannabis team, “just a more full-spectrum, full flower effect in a concentrated form.”
The Hash Rosin Process
Ice, water, heat and pressure are the only ways Knots Cannabis collects the product. First, they use Lowtemp Plates’ Osprey commercial hash washing machine to give buds an ice cold water bath and are only one of three processors in the state who have this technology. Then product is spun for an allotted time to separate trichomes using micron bags. Next, they move product to a freeze dryer to dry each bag.
But here’s where things get squishy. Using heated plates from 0 to 2000 psi over a certain period of time, Knots Cannabis presses the ice water hash to produce rosin. Each strain has its own set “cooking time.” Finally, rosin gets a cold cure before hitting i502 shelves.
“For Hash Rosin, You’re Mining Trichomes.”
What makes for good rosin? The Knots Cannabis team says hash rosin is “quality in, quality out.” There’s no way to hide the quality of starting material unlike, other extraction methods. With hash rosin, it’s very strain-specific. In Knots Cannabis’ experience, the best rosin comes from soil-based growing. “It gives you a higher yield and higher-quality product,” they say.
But quality isn’t everything. Genetics also play a big role in top shelf rosin. When growing for hash rosin, you grow for trichomes and not for biomass. It’s important you are “paying attention to the product’s bulbous trichomes as it’s developing,” says Knots Cannabis. If it “over develops the color of the hash will show that, under develops the terpenes won’t come out.”
About Knots Cannabis
Knots Cannabis has been making hash rosin for about five years. Their team started in a 5’x5’ shed with a garden and a goal to bring affordable solvent-free concentrates to the i502 market. Three years later, their team now resides in a 10,000 sq. ft. building with a facility designed to create and extract hash.
Their team wants to emphasize Knots Cannabis is a commercial hash rosin company and feel it’s important to distinguish as the industry grows. There’s always been craft cannabis, but hash also started as a craft niche market. So their goal is to bridge the gap for someone who’s a high-end BHO consumer and wants to try solventless product.
We couldn’t have teamed up with a more perfect partner to bring hash rosin to the cannabis community. If you want to learn more and peek inside their facility, Knots Cannabis on Instagram at @Knots.Cannabis.
