// Who They Are
Highly respected hash maker and competition winner known for air-dried resin and advocacy for traditional hash-making techniques. Experienced with lighting technology (Gavita background) and IPM. Pioneered observations about hash crystallization and terpene behavior 10 years before piatella became a branded concept.
// Notable Quotes
" by removing all these bags removing that filtration then we're putting it through a freeze dryer and it's keeping that light color that they're looking for they're not able to really evaluate whether it's going to be melt or not "
" when we have it on drying racks we're able to get in there with our fingers and actually see how it's going to melt "
" it was the freeze dryer that kind of steered us away from looking for that melt and being able to produce it "
" another component like if we think about traditional hash what is the purpose for aging hash right so a lot of it has to do with allowing those terpenes to age and break down any of the material that is not cleaned out "
" I think part of it also comes from not only the misinformation out there, but also people get a little scared to treat. "
" Make sure that you're following that research — if it says to use this amount, use that amount to start, rather than under dosing and creating that resistance. "
" LEDs don't actually run cooler — they just run differently. That heat is evaporating off the top as opposed to coming down from the bottom. "
" I've had some really great greasy stuff that by those standards would just get passed up. "
" Every time the topic of piatella comes up I laugh because the reason I was invited onto Hash Church 10 years ago was because of that consistency and everybody telling me it was whited out. "
" We do need all these little craft farmers that are continuing to keep a lot of these cultivars, otherwise they're going to get lost in the fact that they put out 4% instead of 7%. "