Welcome, fellow professionals and cannabis aficionados. Every now and then enough things come up to warrant writing a little summary and making our voice heard. While we have received overwhelming praise and appreciation for all of our flavors, service, and lightning quick delivery (with a 100% success rate!), a couple of minor topics deserve a quick and hopefully brief monologue.
It's Slightly Dry. Dry as compared to what?
Since most never dealt with fresh press rosin and the buddering game, understanding dry rosin in terms of badder is, well, an interesting topic. Don't get us wrong, if live rosin is old, improperly stored, and dried out, it loses a significant amount of terpenes, thus lessening flavor, taste, and possibly even effect. This warrants the title (at times) of a dry rosin badder. One that simply crumbles.
But when the rosin is remarkably fresh (insanely fresh as compared to retail markets where products take months just to reach the shelves and then sit for up to two years before expiring) and the nose is strong, the flavor is deep, and the effects are monumental, then calling the rosin dry is a touch... off topic or irrelevant. This is the plant's unique fingerprint and expression and if you touch her right, she will get wet for you. The terpenes and moisture are locked inside and you can transform it with ease.
Single Gram Jars Dry Faster
Single grams would be the first to dry. The more there is the better in terms of surface area and the terpenes locked inside.
If the rosin is scentless, tasteless, and appearing to be dried out, and crumbling, then yes, that is a dry rosin badder. This isn't the case with anything on our menu. However, calling one rosin badder dry simply because it doesn't mimic the texture of another cultivar doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
What determines wetness?
The plant. The process remains the same for all of our cultivars, with something like the Zberries turning into a dripping wet badder, or the Dulce De Papaya or even the Moroccan Peaches everyone loves, that is just noticeably moist when condensed and agitated correctly. The process remains the same and the plant and that particular cultivar is usually the determinant factor for how moist or dry a final rosin badder will be. Everything on our menu is harvested, frozen, and washed right on the farm with flavors hitting our menu mere days after being finished. Each cultivar will result in slightly different textures and consistency, an end result largely out of our control.
It's often the best and most flavorful Tier #1 rosins that come pure white and in a doughy consistency. Even some of our wettest rosin like the zberries can appear dry if it sits still for a number of days without agitation or when it's cold. Rosin should always reach room temperature and be carefully condensed, agitated, and given some time to settle before judging moisture content. Dive right on into the #baddertech...
More often than not, trying to "whip-up" a jar of cold cure rosin badder will do more harm than good. The idea is to compress and keep the rosin together, not break it up and cause it to crumble. We often refer to it as "whipping" but the action is nothing of the sort. Actually whipping or stirring the rosin works with a few of the wettest, but will do more harm than good on cultivars like the Dulce or Peaches.
You would be absolutely shocked at the vast changes in appearance and consistency that the same jar of rosin can undergo. This many years later and we are still surprised quite often when a rosin badder changes in texture, consistency, and even color depending upon a list of factors that include time, lighting, temperature, agitation, pressure, and even camera angle.
What Doesn't Have an Effect on Moisture
-2 day shipping
-A few days at room temperature and up to 90+ degrees. If anything heat would help moisture, making the rosin softer the hotter it gets. How do you think we melt it down to put in Vape Pens?
Our Jars and Packaging
This seems like a good time and place to discuss our jar tech. You will notice that we use different jars from the doubles + to our singles. Both jars are some of the best brands on the market. The pop vac jars are actually more expensive than the bigger black jars, but fit perfectly for single grams. Both styles of jars are industry leaders, with a sea of generic junk out there. Rest assured your thca live rosin will arrive safe and sound and remain as fresh as possible.
A Brief History Lesson
Long before rosin badders became the popular way to sell rosin, we only knew of- (well beside flower rosin that was/is always a form of a badder)- Fresh Press Live Rosin or Ice Water Hash. The very first time fresh press rosin warms up it loses its translucent appearance and liquid-like form, as seen below. This is where the term whipping originated, whipping and stirring the translucent oil-like consistency seen below into a cold-cure or rosin badder texture.
Left at room temp., the fresh press will harden and turn white appearing completely and totally dried out. This is what we often think of as dry rosin. Dry fresh press rosin that is. The amount of grief and disappointment caused by buddered up fresh press rosin is what led to the minor consumer discovery known around the world as the #baddertech.
Using some simple tactics and techniques, we learned it was possible to turn the dry and hardened/buddered fresh press rosin into a dripping and gleaming live rosin badder. The same techniques can be applied to cold cure or rosin badders to help bring out some moisture if desired.
Wrap It Up B
Today many producer's like ourselves elect to transform the fresh press rosin (as seen 2 photos above) into a live rosin badder aka cold-cure (picture directly above) to eliminate the bummer that can be buddered up fresh press rosin. Rosin badder or cold cure is much easier to deal with, dab, transport, and preserve, not to mention an easier product for producers to package and consumers to handle.
After we allow our fresh press rosin to sit and cure, we whip it into a rosin badder and jar it up just for you. It truly cannot get any fresher. We aren't joking in the least when we say, "Farm to Rig" flavors. ENJOY and thank you all so much for your support.
And regardless, we will always help you out and ensure your satisfaction. Just reach out.
One Love,
The Exotic One
Thanks for taking the time to drop this knowledge bomb. Learned a lot. I love the cold cure and don't think I would notice a difference between the two, but there is just something special visually about a nice glassy fresh press. Totally get the decision from a business perspective. Keep da fire coming
Well written.cleared up a couple things for me.you guys are doing it right bro! I saw someone said the hive was dry.I haven't seen it's equal in consistency that's for sure.