What signs show VERY GOOD QUALITY moroccan hash

[bobmerlay]

hi guys, What signs other than smoking show really good quality *MOROCCAN ONLY hash?
Its pretty easy to judge by smelling and "working" hash in your hand when judging charas without smoking, but moroccan hash is much less pliable and drier due to the way its harvested

Ive never seen best grade moroccan hash, and only blonde hash once in my life, that was some of the best hash ive ever smoked, it was sativa type high

What difference in high is blonde hash going to be compared to the hard pressed dark brown/blacker hash?
What should be the main things I look for when trying to judge good moroccan hash. Other than smoking it..... blonde or hard pressed darker better? etc
cheers

 

[bongoie]

MR Nice AKA Howard Marks says in his book that he looks for a blue flame
I have had moroccan smuggled by a friend . DYNAMITE , it blew me away and is far by miles superior to anything else i have had , including temple ball etc from amsterdam
It was squidgy black , it bubbled up when heated
Was called 00 due to the screen size , me thinks or if i remember right .
TIP= rolling a UK or 3skin tobacco joint
Take a joints worth . flatten to the size of a cent . place on top of a mound of tobacco in palm of hand . then heat till it bubbles and fluff's up , mash the two together . this works a treat but try not to burn yourself
Think whot i got was cream of the crop as the smuggler knew the farmer . he used bags of mint to mask the smell when smuggling it home to spain
Never had anything like it since , or before.

 

[chubbynugs]

MR Nice AKA Howard Marks says in his book that he looks for a blue flame
I have had moroccan smuggled by a friend . DYNAMITE , it blew me away and is far by miles superior to anything else i have had , including temple ball etc from amsterdam
It was squidgy black , it bubbled up when heated
Was called 00 due to the screen size , me thinks or if i remember right .
TIP= rolling a UK or 3skin tobacco joint
Take a joints worth . flatten to the size of a cent . place on top of a mound of tobacco in palm of hand . then heat till it bubbles and fluff's up , mash the two together . this works a treat but try not to burn yourself
Think whot i got was cream of the crop as the smuggler knew the farmer . he used bags of mint to mask the smell when smuggling it home to spain
Never had anything like it since , or before.

I am loving hash but lets get real if you say the zero zero is with a zero micron mesh you wouldnt get any hash at all. LOL. That shit needs to melt into the weed bowl under it to be the legit bomb. I am not a hater on vintage head stash hash but none of the imports shots i have seen are FMCD.

 

[bongoie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKJ54TikP4
FMCD ? sorry you lost me there

00 is still available to those who know where to get it and is the most expensive hash on the streets of scotland


Copied from wickipedia
A visitor to the Rif Mountains and the town of Ketama in Morocco in December 1976 described the production of hashish. In unheated huts, each worker placed his hands and arms inside a fertilizer sack. The depths of the bag was filled with leaves of the cannabis plant. In the mouth of the bag was a plastic washing-up bowl, over which was stretched a sheet of "zero-zero" grade muslin. The worker rubbed the leaves of the cannabis plant against the muslin, resulting in a fine powder falling into the bowl. 100 grams of the powder would be wrapped in more of the same fine muslin, put onto a heated metal plate, and rolled down with a bottle. This process produces a slightly sticky solid brown mass in the form of a rectangular slab, quite a bit smaller than a paperback book and 5 mm thick. The block was then wrapped in cellophane. Sellers of this Moroccan hashish pointed to the imprint of the muslin on the surface of the block, and declared it proof that the product was "zero-zero", top quality.

 

[purple_man]

high all!

maroccan comes in all types of grades... from the euro-bricks which contain nearly 0% thc, to the caramellos (the egg shaped pressings). the best way is to smoke some of it, actually the only real way to measure, since the "craftmanship" of the "fake" hasj "producers" became very sophisticated....
else, when burned in a spliff should release a milky/blue smoke, when you hit the hash piece with a lighter it should bubble.

the zero micron was a good one mate

blessss

 

[chubbynugs]

FMCD full melt clear dome

 

[Kaneh]

Color doesn't tell really anything, light or dark, it can be the same stuff:

Moroccan is always first light colored.
From that shit they make dark colored "caramellos" by heating it little so they can shape it to small 3-5 gram bullets that are easy to swallow.
This is the stuff that people usually go to get personally, so it's good.
But you can also buy it in light colored coldpressed 100g bricks. and it's still good.

Commercial quality can look like anything, but is usually pretty easy to see if you have som experience with Moroc hash. This is the worst thing to smoke!

Bubble test is only way I know how to tell if it's really good.
...Oh, and ofcourse smoking it!


BTW

 

[gertnaerd]

hey guys...the bubbletest has to be done carefulöl in these days....because...there is marocaanse hsj that is bubbling like crazy...but it really isnt high grade! these hasjs have all the same kind off flavor...some synthetic flavour...hard to discribe...and hard to make out bcause...its an an hash like smell...(sorry libit weird..but its likethat!!)..imo ...the taste tells a lot about quality

 

[Papulz]

there are many adulterating materials used in traditional hash making countries to give the look/feel/smell of good resin when its crap.

some things that can be used to add oily/stickiness: mulberry sap, turpentine, animal fat, wax.. etc many many ingredients can be added to commercial hash.

and think... if theres wax in the hash i wonder if it will bubble?

 

[purple_man]

high all!

done know guys!!! thats why i feel that the best way is to smoke it... same as "bricked" stuff in some countries...

blessss

 

[limey]

'lo

Zero-Zero, sputnik etc are all nicknames given to moroccan resin and are essentially meaningless. Practically every moroccan dealer I have ever met will chant a litany of these names but in truth, they are usally an indication that the dealer is trying it on. The best moroccan doesn't need silly nicknames.

Kaneh is spot on about colour and caramellos. Carmellos are produced from a wide range of quality of resin and they are shaped for swallowing. The best are made by the smugglers themselves and, as Kaneh points out, that usually means the quality is reasonable at worst. However there is a cottage industry in, for example, Chefchaoen, of dealers who make caramellos for sale to lazy or poorly connected smugglers (almost always from Spain) who just want to pick up a belly load. Having sat in on a few of these caramello making sessions, I am sorry to report that the quality of resin used isn't often that great and the quality of manufacture usually quite poor.

So... how to judge the quality? well... the quick answer is: same way you judge quality for any other hashish (though not necessarily charas):

1. (well pressed) it should be stiff at room, cool temperatures and snap cleanly with no dust
2. at body temperature or slightly higher, it should become soft and highly plastic/malleable. It should also smell strongly if it is at all warm
3. when broken, i.e. under the dark oxidised surface, you should be able to see resin glands and nothing else. If it is very well pressed most of the glands will have broken so this doesn't always work. But the colour insde should always be 100% consistent - variations in colour suggest adulteration or sloppy manufacture.
4. it should be highly volatile under a flame (noting previous comments about the flame test). The very best quality should actually melt. The colour of the oils fizzing on the surface should be the same as the colour of the unoxidised resin (what you see inside the block) and it should smell only of hash. It is best to do the flame test in strong natural light so you can really inspect the fizz. However, if the fizz is not immediately apparent, or if the flame actually has to touch the resin before it bubbles, it's not pukka.
5. Ash test: put some resin in a pipe and smoke it! any resin should be pure white-grey, soft and of a 100% same consistency. No grit or anything in the ash. A residue normally indicates adulteration with vegetable oil.
6. Smoke test: any smoke should be pure white smoke
7. taste test: the majority of moroccan hash, even very good stuff, has a slightly acrid taste. As a rule of thumb, the more acrid the hash, the worse it is. Very very good moroccan doesn't have this acridity and should taste slightly floral.
8. High test: you should only need a very small amount to get a big hit, even if you are a hardened smoker.
9. Comparison test. go to Amsterdam and buy some moroccan hash made by the Rifman, you can usually pick some up at de Dampkring, for example. OK, it isn't absolutely the best of the best of the best but it's still better than what you are likely to find from a street deal in Morocco. If what you are offered doesn't compare with what you can buy in Amsterdam, it's not the best.

The description bongoie has posted from wikipedia is typical of the farmers' powder method and indicative, usually, of commercial grade hash, certainly not the best quality on offer. I have made hash in exactly this way in morocco and nepal but only becuase I didn't have any decent screens.

A quality manufacturer in morocco will gently tumble flowers over a screen and the finest quality resin is collected immediately, without much further agitation of the green matter. This results in a tiny extraction rate, maybe less than 1%: you will seldom if ever find this quality for sale and it produces a hash of pure, large resin glands and is seldom pressed more than lightly ; the next quality is produced from the same flowers being gently broken up and lightly tapped on the screen ; the next from these broken flowers being worked, usally by beating them gently with some stalks and stirred on the screen ; the commercial quality is, finally, these flowers being thrashed vigourously on the screen and stirred. By the time you get down to the commercial quality, alot of leaf dust is being forced through the screen with the resin glands, which is why it is acrid to taste, presses poorly, dry and uneven in texture.

Hope that helps!

 

[gertnaerd]

very nice one---limey ....thx alot

 

[Chamba]

great post Limey, keep the good info coming.

how to test Maroc?..........as many have said, obviously smoke it..the proof is in the pudding!

but that's more easily said than done in many situations, more often than not the last thing you want to do when buying hash in a foreign country is to have to hang around in a room with lots of strangers, money and hash in the same spot hoping there's no knock on the door or a knock on the head while you are trying to evaluate this hash.

If your tolerance is up and your paranoia level is also up, you might not catch much of a buzz at all and that's worrying to say the least, or if the stuff is much better than what you've been smoking and it blows you away so much that you have to count the cash 4 times very slowly. ha!..and it's foreign cash! "how many of these green colored funny money notes is it to the dollar again mate?"

 

[British_Bulldog]

Nice description limey!

It could also be added that light blue smoke is also an indication of high purity.


Peace

 

[BERED]

Nice description limey!

It could also be added that light blue smoke is also an indication of high purity.


Peace

yep really..light blu-purple all the best Moroccan hash in amsterdam..

 

[Yarkand]

Great thread & discussion everyone

 

[Hazy Lady]

Great info everyone, Limey - super post, most informative.
This video show's the exact process mentioned in the thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuYQln6P428