Hash Burger is a cross between Han Solo Hash Plant (Han Solo Burger x Black Triangle Kush) and Double Burger (GMO x Donny Burger).
For those of you who are not big GMO-heads, the “Burger” family is a GMO pheno (Garlic Cookies, to be specific) that traditionally leans more toward the garlicky, meaty side of the GMO spectrum, with less onion bite.
As for Hash Burger, I find the strengths lie more on the mushroom-and-onion side, making it an interesting iteration of what has become an iconic, savory line from Skunk House Genetics.
Appearance: Dark Deep Prophecies of Pleasure
Nature has a way of warning us of danger. From high-contrast banded venomous snakes to neon colored tree frogs, wherever potency lies, there are often clues.
Hash Burger is no different. If I had to look at the entire top shelf where I bought this and pick the jar I thought would have one of the highest THC testing percentages, this would probably make the list.
Not that I select based on THC, which I don’t. In fact, I usually don’t get to that until I’m at home and ogling my newly acquired preciouses from the comfort of my own couch.
These nugs are absolute weapons. Medium-sized nugs of extremely backish purples dominate the surface, allowing just enough fatigue green to poke through to let you know you are consuming cannabis flower and not raccoon poop.
Personally, I think they’re gorgeous. If you lean dark purps, you’ll probably be mesmerized too.
They’re also pretty dense nugs. Takes way less visual volume of Hash Burger to grind up a cone’s worth than something fluffier like a Trop or haze.
Smell: A Challenging Profile To Pin Down
Hash Burger, at least this batch from Midnight Fruit Company, is one of the most complex noses I’ve smelled in a long time. I put it up there with Fried Ice Cream Cake, Velvet Glove or Grandpa’s Gunchest.
Terpenes jump from the jar to your nostrils, eager to rub their oily molecules all over the insides of your olfactory system.
The pungency is strong, very strong. This is the potency making itself known, warning the user beforehand, for they are about to consume THE Hash Burger.
It’s not just burgers all the way down the line. The first notes detected are fresh-cut celery and incense; the middle then comes in with star anise, cedar, and leather. The body is gassy, with a burnt-meat smell, reminding me a lot of lighter-fluid-doused charcoal grills at ignition.
There’s a subtle basketball rubber and pickled ginger that punctuate things on the tail-end.
A damp temperate rainforest mossy fog saturates the entire experience, seemingly causing the smell particles to linger in your nostrils, and the flavor to linger in the mouth when consuming.
The GMO here is more on the damp sock/mushroom side, with the onion astringency a bit more tempered, and not as sharp a garlic twang as other GMOs or even other burger crosses.
Donny Burger, for example, a cross between GMO and Han Solo Burger, had a much funkier garlic burger experience, whereas Hash Burger is more subtle in its funk, luring you in for a deeper inhale like a good kush.
Perhaps it is the dank lushness from the Black Triangle Kush genetics in the Han Solo Hash Plant parent that skews this burger a little more kushy than others.
The flavor is just as engaging as the smell. Notes detected when vaporized at 580 through my Honest Waterpipe are sand and a fresh herbal roasted flavor, like a grilled piece of meat with some fresh chimichurri.
The vapor is quite rich, in a fine dining kind of way, unsurprisingly from these dense little 36.28% nuggets, and hard to resist knocking out in rapid succession until your lungs start to get a bit spicy.
It’s a different story when combusted. Walking into a room where people have been smoking Hash Burger, and it’ll smell like incense, burnt meat, Cheetos, and a damp rubber doormat.
Sensation: Brace Yourself For Impact, Brother
Interestingly, this weed hits different depending on whether it is smoked or vaporized. I’ve never actually noticed such a stark difference between consumption methods.
When vaporized, the high is very friendly and approachable. It waves to you from down the street before coming up to hug you. You want to keep hugging it.
When combusted (preferably via OCB hemp and bamboo cones here), there is no waving, no warning; it just jumps up onto your back from behind with all its weight, shouting “surprise!” as you cough and struggle to maintain your balance.
The only other weed that comes close to doing something similar, at least in my limited experience, was Soul Train.
Both this and Soul Train hit with the force of a heavyweight boxer to your cannabinoid receptors, causing you to just sit the fuck down and submit to the plant’s awesome power.
It will make sense once you light Hash Burger up and notice how much smoke it makes and how thick and tarry a resin ring it forms as you burn it down.
It’s quite rich. It’s quite an experience, but not for the inexperienced lungs.
Summary: A Full Robusto In Every Measure
Hash Burger couldn’t be a more appropriate name for this strain because it’s so damn resinous, so dense, and so potent that, of course, it would be likely to yield some killer hash.
From the insanely complex bouquet (think coffee, wine, or whisky levels of complexity) to the unrelenting potency and effect, this is solidly in the “diamond tier” of cannabis strains.
If you like GMOs, you will naturally be smitten with Hash Burger. I think most aficionados of kush would appreciate Hash Burger, if not for the full-body, dominating effects when combusted.
Tested THC percentage aside, this is potent stuff, so I wouldn’t recommend it for critical thinking or coordination tasks. Hash Burger has definitely been a late evening/unwind for me.
Hash Burger to me is a connoisseur’s strain, full potency and incredibly complex, throwing me for a loop every time I take a whiff and causing me to shake my head in amazement every spark it up.
No doubt Hash Burger would be a killer strain for making some old-school Cannoli-style hash balls if you farm or process.
But cannabis is all about community, so I must ask YOU, the reader, what YOUR take is on Hash Burger?
Let us all know in the comments below!
