Making Hashish Yourself
Greetings oh Elder of the most high, My quest is to make my own hash. I’m very interested both traditional
I have been experimenting with silk screens with some success and
disasters. Time of harvest and cure seem important aspects, shaking or
rubbing presure on the screen seems to vary the quality. I’ve heard of cold water extraction.
There is a machine on the European market but haven’t as yet located it.
Afghani Black is a good standard. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years, How?
May the long time sun shine upon your website
ONE LOVE
herb Al
P.S. Don’t panic my herb is strickly organic.
Sounds like you have very high standards. I’m impressed! The Old Hippy is
very fond of high quality hashish from Afghanistan (as well as Nepal,
Pakistan, India, and of course Morocco). I just finished reading a great
book (not available in the US at present) called Mr. Nice. It’s the
autobiography of Howard Marks who smuggled hashish into England and Canada by the ton. He witnessed the tribesmen making hashish on the
Pakistan/Afghani border (known as border hash). The technique he saw them using required them to pound the cannabis using a huge stone suspended from a see-saw like contraption. It was smashing the THC from the plant in a big wok shaped bowl. Underneath a fire was heating up the mixture, turning it black. So their technique forces the breakup of the resin glands and the
heat activates the THC.
You should be aware that sometimes black hash contains opium. But usually
it is black due to the heat processing or because they gather the resins by
hand (thus heating it) forming black charas (finger hash). In Amsterdam I
have had the pleasure of comparing the various types of hash and savoring
the finest. Now my preference is for the least processed. My favorite is
the top quality from the Rif Mountains (see the story Kif in the Rif on our Hip Guide to Morocco site). The resin is coaxed from the plant by
pounding it with sticks. It falls into a sack and is then gently pressed. It
doesn’t get touched by hand and is not heated. It has the purest sweetest
flavor (when it’s top quality).
The Dutch also make fine hashish (called Nederhash) from their super strong
Dutch bio and hydro weed. The color of this varies from very light almost
white to light brown to green (not usually good as it has too much plant
material). This hash is made in small quantities and taste and quality
varies but it can be excellent. The Dutch use a machine that’s like a
small tumbler (pollinator – see below) that spins allowing the cannabis to fall thus knocking loose
the THC. It accumulates and then they press it. The big advantage is that
the hash is usually very, very fresh. Imported hashish can sit for years in
storage before it gets consumed.
-The Old Hippy
UPDATE: First let me warn people about the Black Hashish flooding the market in 2002. It seems there’s such a surplus of opium thanks to the Taliban and the Northern Alliance releasing their three year supply to help pay for the war in Afghanistan, that it’s finding it’s way into hashish in unprecedented proportions (perhaps more than 50%). There are some ways to identify it, but its always very soft and pliable, and sometimes sticky. Unless you want to find yourself addicted to opium I suggest you stay away from it. Stick with the lighter Moroccan or locally produced hashishes from your area.
Secondly, the best machine on the market for doing quantities of hashish is the Pollinator made in Holland. You can visit their website and check it out. On that site you can also find out about the latest method of extracting ice-o-lator hashish, which uses ice water to separate the tricomes from the plant material. This yields the purest hashish using special bags with built in screens and a hand mixer. The main problem with this method is that the result must be dried thoroughly otherwise it will get moldy. I recommend any isolator hash be consumed immediately!
And lastly the Old Hippy doesn’t advocate breaking any laws. The making and possession of Hashish is some areas can result in far worse penalties than that of unprocessed marijuana. Please keep this in mind.
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