Step aside, ice water hash, the pendulum is swinging toward extracts purified by the power of electricity in the mid-2020s.
Hash connoisseurs and the mainstream that follows them have made a type of kief purified by static electricity all the rage.
Clumps of hash heads, by Wolverinedabs. Photo by Marvin Lee – @surfacearea999
Coming out of the hash contests of Spain, so-called static dry sift promises a hit that’s the soul of the plant, unadulterated by even water as a solvent.
You can make a version of it at home during trimming, and the big hash labs on the international medical stage are deploying static filtration machines costing up to $250,000. The final product can sell for more than the price of gold per gram ($126/gram).
David Polley, founder of the award-winning Preferred (formerly Preferred Gardens) in California, told me in Los Angeles this October, “All the guys want my trim to make static. It’s huge in Europe right now. It’s going crazy.”
Dan Egan, founder of Happy Dreams Genetics, just sent a crop of Humboldt County, CA, outdoor to static processing.
“For the people who love fresh frozen live rosin, the next step after is full melt static,” Egan said. “This just seems like the 2025 new way that’s really catching on among the top hashmakers in Europe and few in California as well.”
“It’s ascendant,” said iconic Canadian growing figure Breeder Steve. “Nobody had been pushing high-end sifting tech.”
“2025 has been our strongest year to date,” said a spokesperson for leading brand Static Room in Los Angeles, winner of seven medals this year.
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Author: David Downs / High Times
