How is hash made? The methods compared
How hash is made depends on what you start with, but the hash making process is the same idea every time: free the resin heads, then collect them. Dried and cured material suits screens and hand methods; material frozen the day it’s cut suits ice water. The table puts the methods side by side.
| Method | What you need | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Dry sift | Dried flower or trim, stacked screens, a cold room | Kief up to high-grade sift |
| Ice water hash | Bubble Bags, a bucket, ice and cold water | Bubble hash, up to full melt |
| Static sift | Good dry sift, screens and a static charge | The cleanest heads from dry material |
| Hand-rubbed and pressed | Hands, heat and time | Charas, temple balls, pressed hash |
| Rosin | A press, heat and rosin bags | Hash rosin or flower rosin |
Every method starts from the same raw material: trichomes, the resin glands on the flowers and sugar leaves. That is what hash is, however you collect it, and it is why the plant matters more than the gear. Some strains wash into piles of resin and others barely give any. Bubbleman has worked through all of it live, every Sunday since 2014, in the Hash Church episodes.
How to make hash at home
How to make hash at home starts with what you already have. The kief a grinder catches can be pressed into hash by hand, dry sift needs only stacked screens and a cold room, and ice water hash needs a bucket, ice, cold water and bags.
How to make hash from flower
How to make hash from flower depends on how the flower was kept: dried and cured flower goes through screens for dry sift, and flower frozen the day it was cut goes into ice water for bubble hash.
Hash making guides
Hash making guides for each method, from kief and dry sift to ice water hash and drying it right:
- Ice water hashWhat bubble hash is, and why it meltsExplainer
- How to make bubble hashBubbleman’s method, step by stepStep by step
- Dry sift hashScreens, cold, a light handStep by step
- What is kiefThe resin a grinder catchesExplainer
- What to do with kiefNine ways to use itGuide
- Kief pressingTurn kief into hashStep by step
- Fresh frozen hashHarvest and freeze for live hashGuide
- How to dry bubble hashWith or without a freeze dryerStep by step
- Bubble hash micron sizesWhat each bag catchesReference