Hash talk

[Gingerbeard]

Farmbuck asked me to process his hash as I have processed my rosin with the winterization/gravitation thing I just did and I am curious.
How about it? Dissolve hash in alcohol. Freeze it real frozen. Put it on a filter. Add gravity. Evaporate the alcohol. That is pretty much RSO without having to soak an entire plant. We're talking working grams in jars at a time with little mess instead of ounces in buckets with lots of mess.
You wouldn't waste the hash. Hash is perfect and cannot be improved on. Gingerbeard is a fool. Fine. I get you. Let's just talk about what I'm talking about. Eyes on the prize.

[Gingerbeard]

Scrape your stash jar or get a grinder with a kief catcher.
I would say anything with a screen will work. Bubble bags can be used for dry sift which does not need to dry out like ice water hash and you do not need to deal with dry ice.
Realize you do not make hash from weed. You make kief from weed and hash from kief.
Dry kief from dry sift or dry ice needs to be heated and pressed to make hash.
Ice water kief can be pressed so you have kief that is easy to handle but has not been given a heated hash treatment.
I've pressed bud and kief one time each. That is the easiest product I have extracted. But it is also the most wasteful and needs a big-honkin' press.

[Farmbuck]

Putting the jokes aside, are you satisfy with your ratio of Hash ?

[Mollisol]

What is the simplest and least expensive way for someone to make hash? Someone like me, who has never made it before?

[Gingerbeard]

No, no... I said you are someone. Not, someone else. You are something else. Something else, entirely!

[Farmbuck]

Don't swear too much that someone is someone else.

[Gingerbeard]

Waaait, I just reread that. The land of fruits and nuts is California! Yeah, even sitting on top of Tijuana we are worried about getting our faces burned off in 'm'rica. We care more.
We care more and, being the fifth largest economy in the world we freely feel free to force our neighbors to do the same.

[Gingerbeard]

10%, got it. I swear someone said they were good with 220, and you are someone.

[Farmbuck]

Young Ginger the 3 "balls" equal to 12 grams, a ratio of 1 to 10, 1 gram of hash for 10 grams of dried cured flowers. As for my screen I use a 120 micron kind. Sometime less if the flower is less frosty.

[Gingerbeard]

Are those a gram each or a pound each? Give some scale, please. What % return do you average with a 220 screen?
Would you like me to winterize and gravitize them, senor?

[Farmbuck]

My last batch of Hash, Mazar Kush from last fall.

[Gingerbeard]

Winterization, the ghetto days.
I dissolved a solution of the 3.7 gram puck in a jar with ISO. The jar went to Jr.'s -20° coffin freezer for a few hours. The dissolved resin got poured over a coffee filter rubber banded over a glass bowl. The percolation got de-ISO'd overnight on my grow light that kept the bowl at 105°. Scraped some. Dabbed the scraped some.
Much less nasty. Still not conglomerate resin but I am not ashamed to share it with friends who give a hoot about what they use.
I don't think this was so much winterization as it was gravitation. Making resin forces solvent and particulates through a filter. Letting the solution fall through the filter does not force the particles. They lay on the filter instead of being pushed through.
I do not know how much dewaxing happened in the column, so I do not know how much wax was getting filtered by gravitation. Winterizing is about congealing and floating lipids in a solution of alcohol. The wax is more easily removed because it will no longer go through a filter. But what does it do to the particulates?
Can a 10 micron piece of plant matter rehydrate to a 20 micron piece of plant matter in alcohol?
My aim was to get rid of the particulates. I think I did a good job of it! Still some work to out. Equipment purchases to ponder. But I did it and I did it small scale with ghetto goods. Red-neck, if you prefer.
I am so cool... I love experimenting with drugs...

[Gingerbeard]

Although it is illegal to buy or sell spirits higher than 151 in California, 200% food grade can be ordered from culinary supply stores, my Brocaholic. If ordering it online were a thing, banning it would not be a thing. I guess. One thing I read is we banned it because people were lighting their faces on fire with flaming drinks. Flaming drinks? My god, man! I have a moustache!!! Plus, I'm 53 and still learning how to work with the surge in nose-hair production.
Amazon may be evil but they are top notch compared to the bastards at the USPS.

[Going2fast]

The evil Amazon has it delivered to o your door.

[Gingerbeard]

But can you buy or is it convenient to drive to another state to buy the high-test Everclear? Closest I know about is two states away.