Mighty Melts Grape Mountain Live Rosin Custard Review

Much solventless rosin these days in Colorado has to at least be pretty good to have a chance at selling given the level of competition. Case in point: Mighty Melts’ Grape Mountain raises the bar for citrus-laden hash varietals and offers a distinguished terpene profile that you can taste as much or more than it smells. Even though the Tropicana Cookies/Wedding Pies of the world and their massive family of similar strains are grown and washed far and wide, this particular one is special. Mighty Melts has really stepped up their game recently and if you’re a fan of uncommon sweetly floral and fruity flavors, it’s a must try.

We grabbed a gram of Mighty Melts’ Grape Mountain live rosin custard from their dispensary, Mighty Tree, along with a handful of other exciting hash strains. Their standard packaging nowadays is a foil-accented cardboard box which contains a sleek, black POP-VAC jar that has a convenient metal airtight seal to preserve freshness. It wasn’t refrigerated when we got it so I did some evaluation of room temperature texture versus chilled. This rosin is pretty sticky in either scenario and like Mighty Melts’ other “live rosin custards” it is an accurate description of how it behaves. It’s like a little blob of soft, egg yolk yellow, terpene-loaded Play Doh but stiffens up appreciably after 3-6 hours inside a fridge. The wet terpene sheen is very noticeable and shiny when it warms up slightly. That said, I prefer to keep all of my rosin cold within another airtight glass jar for maximum shelf life.

Grape Mountain is a genuine Bloom Seeds creation and we’ve come to generally expect high quality results whenever their genetics are getting grown and washed. Its aroma is immediately sweetly floral upfront with a solid backing of a tangerine-reminiscent citrus. The cultivar they washed and pressed here does also have a little hint of Concord grape, but it’s rather subtle. This strain is a three way cross of Mtn Trop x (Grape Pie x Wedding Crasher), which is basically just one giant citrus fruit salad. It’s our understanding that Mtn Trop is a particularly coveted cut of Tropicana Cookies and Bloom Seeds is famous for their many prized fruit-heavy creations, including Melted Strawberries, Grape Cream Cake, and Tallymon just to name a few. In sum, this hash rosin smells incredible. 

Over the course of a few days I tried the Grape Mountain both in my Puffco Peak Pro at around 480-490°F and took a few dabs in my glass rig plus quartz banger combo at about the same temperature. Regardless of the vehicle you use to consume it, your lowest acceptable heat is strongly suggested here to maximize the flavor opportunity each time. Rosin can offer a lot of variety in this way, but as you’ll read next I found it to be some of the tastier stuff I’ve dabbed recently. The sub 500°F range will leave you with a little extra to clean up in your bucket but I promise it’s worth it!

In case you didn’t know, grapes are indeed grown in the mountains, but pretty much exclusively for wine. This strain in rosin form however tastes only a little bit grapey, and more than anything delivers a beautifully soft, sweet orange sorbet flavor that you just want to keep as long as possible on your tongue. Even though it wasn’t apparent on the first or second dab, it also offers a floral, orchid filled greenhouse sweetness in small quantities that really amps up the flavor package. It smokes very, very smoothly at each temperature I sampled but does lose some of the delicacy factor when I tried it even in mid 500°Fs. If you really care more than anything about flavor in your solventless hash, you’ll be hard pressed not to finish the entire gram off quicker than most of what else is hanging out in your stash.