Before finding LB and this Afghan I hadn't seen excellent dark solid since I travelled in a white Merc with a trio of crazy Dutch. Started in Ireland and reached India, with smoke in our wake but not from the exhaust. So blazed I'm surprised we managed to steer the thing. Came back on the thumb & Magic Bus ( yes it was a thing back then, not just a song...) via everywhere, slowly.

That was in 1973 I think.. uhm ... We haven't lived in a city since, so couldn't find any
decent solid. This Afghan IS decent, not excellent but for the price ....a bargain, works well in DynaVap or Boundless, softens in the fingers, bubbles with a flame, smells good & I'm very wrecked.

Don't hesitate titntin, enjoy.

Hi guys, this is my Afghan, I think it looks more like leb? Doesn’t smell like I expected!

A few words on black hashish - Black hash is produced in several methods, all including kneading the trichomes to the point that all the gland heads breaks apart and the resin inside them mix together to a solidity. this process is (usually) what gives the hash it's black color, it's oiliness and stickiness (and the lack of this process, or partially doing it leaves the hash brighter in color and sandier in texture). further more, the more you knead the resin together the sooner (still take months though) you'll get the plant terpenes to combie and create the lovely terp called "Hashishene" that we all love. "Hashishene" terp gives all the original, producing countries hash that "hashy" smell we all adore (differ a bit according to the terpene profile in the plant and the growing country). by the way - modern hashs who don't cure as long as a year or two like most producing countries hash are, totally absent this terpene, which is created by comabining all the other cannabis plant terpenes (kneading and breaking the trichomes heads) + time. this is the reason most bubble hash and modern dry sift do not smell like hashish but like the flower they were produced from. Black hash is produced all over east and middle asia, so a traditional black hash can come from several different countries and usually is not easy to tell which is which. there are certain characteristic that can imply a hash is of a certain region for an example: some of the great hashish produced in afghanistan get a golden seal stamped on it before distributed. golden seal stamp usually means that the hash is of afghani origin. taste and smell can change by location or even the year of harvest. Cheers to all!

Cool, informative post. Thanks.

You probably(!) know this. The word “assassin” first popped up in English around the 16th century via French and Italian from this Arabic word “hashishin”, meaning “hashish eaters”, which at that point was the commonly accepted name of the legendary 12th century Isma’ili group of assassins which by then may have been wiped out.

I first heard about this while watching a screening of the film 'Performance', released in 1970. Turner (Mick Jagger) reads from a book about 'The old man on the mountain.' A valley is sealed and fortified at both ends and the athletic, cultured young men, the Hashishin, are doped and carried to the remote site, believed that they were in Paradise. They spent their days developing martial skills, and their nights with '..maidens who dallied with them so that they had what young men want.'

They were sent to carry out their duties of killing prominent people. Their fearlessness came from the belief that if they perished while executing (sic) their tasks, The Old Man would '... send my angels who will bring you back to Paradise.' Some good chaps to have in your corner, then.

The book that is featured in the film is 'Fictions' by the Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges, though the reading is not in this collection of short stories. Anyone know where this text comes from?

Hi! what you referring to is the "Asāsiyyūn sect/order" of Hasan ibn al-Sabah who lived in the mountains of Persia and in Syria between 1090 and 1275. the tale which originated in the account given by Marco Polo in "The Adventures of Marco Polo" saying that "The Old Man kept at his court such boys of twelve years old as seemed to him destined to become courageous men. When the Old Man sent them into the garden in groups of four, ten or twenty, he gave them hashish to drink. They slept for three days, then they were carried sleeping into the garden where he had them awakened. When these young men woke, and found themselves in the garden with all these marvelous things, they truly believed themselves to be in paradise. And these damsels were always with them in songs and great entertainments; they; received everything they asked for, so that they would never have left that garden of their own will." and in this manner it's believed by some that they became so dedicated they would kill on commend for the chance to be back on this "garden".
This story is today believed to be a myth and might have been used to delegitimize nizari Isma'ilis sect(branch of Shia Islam)/hashish use in general, as there is no historic evidence that the 'asasiyun order' have actually used hashish.
The modern etymology of the word hashish is believed to be derived from the arabic word ḥašīš which means “hay" or "dried herb".
If you are interested on further reading about the 'asasiyun sect' there is a wikipedia article about it called "Order of Assassins".
Btw, today 'Hashishin' is a name for a master hash maker in some parts of the world and might have originated in afghanistan. cheers!

Can't always tell from a photo of course, but if you showed me that picture I would bet it was black..
Leb is not as dark as this normally, and even when its dark its dark brown and its often lot more red (unless its a blonde leb).

I suspect you have the gold seal mate....

Memory fades over time! I just expected it to smell ‘different’ although the only way to tell
Is of course !!!!

In a word - score! In several words, this is authentic Afghani hash. I stuffed a date with a piece, about ten minutes after it arrived this morning and I've been at the back of the blue bus since then.
As you have Tintin, I've thoroughly enjoyed the D/F Lemon, the 00, etc. I'm so enjoying this right now.
In the interest of a good review, I'm gonna introduce some heat to this clay. So. Small piece on pin of badge, match, which was to hand and away we go. The flavour is good and it burns well once I get it going. Using a jar to catch the smoke, I was able to keep drawing on it as it glowed to nothing. The jar, now sans dates, has the odour of the used bowl.
The buzz, coming on through the puff this time, is very sweet, dreamy, risible. I have been motoring on this and now the turbo has kicked in. Hee hee! Anyway, I've got a rocket to go off in. Gone!

Old school hash puffed in an old school way. Yes whatcanido234, if you weren’t knocking the arse out an iron bru bottle for hot knifes it was a badge on an LP cover with an upside down pint tumbler. You’d watch the smoke rise and fall in the glass until it layered all the way to the top then slid the tumbler to the edge of the album cover, drawing the smoke from there. I also have the Afghan from TGT. Deffo a nice traditional hash with a clean smoke, sweet taste and mellow stone. It's soft and bendy but not so oily to touch. With a little heat and a light rub between your fingers it crumbles nicely without turning into an oily mess. Its up there with the Red Leb currently listed from TGT. Both very nice hashes, neither are to be missed if hash is your thing. Lovely stuff :) R.

A Scotsman? The knocking the arse outa an irn bru bottle gave it away! Now a true Scotsman was doin this by the side of the local burn on school nights as well as weekends

I got the Red Leb on order. I have the Afghani which is authentic traditional black. Word is that the Leb is also stellar: it certainly looks it. This is such a good opportunity to enjoy the nostalgia this will bring to the 70s/80s Toker, along with the chance for new adventurers to turn on to these rare delights. This is the actualization of a traditional process, an artisan product. Sticky like this only comes round now and again. Like about thirty years for some of us on here! Comets may be seen more frequently. Given the recent disruption to supply and the unit price increase, this is a good value deal being offered. He who hesitates may miss out.

Gold seal

This stuff really is giving me flashbacks to ten years ago when the stuff was rife round my way. The red leb is very similar, I just put up some pics of that too on its page

Gold seal

Ace images, Golmagnum. Fine quality subject shown in all its loveliness. Got mine today. I've stuffed some dates and chomped them. Really good. So really good.

whays the technique amount for stuffing dates please never done it before very intrugued

Well. Good quality dates with stones

Slit the date and prise out the stone. Roll a sausage from a spliff's worth or three,depending on desired effect from gear to hand. Get chomping on an empty stomach and eat a meal after an hour or so. For me, late afternoon, a gram or so then tea, then spaced out for the evening.

Dates have a somewhat similar texture and the two give you the chance to really chomp it up.

Another one is 500g unsalted butter in a slow cooker on low. Freeze some 15g hash and grate.it. Or, using a sharp knife on a big board, chop it up small as you can. add the puff to the butter, stir every few hours for 14 - 18 hours. Cool then spoon into greaseproof cupcake things. There may
be a 20% loss to water evaporated from butter. 25g pat will contain about 1g. A 50g pat about 2g. 8 big or 16 small. Then you get to lick/scrape the bowl!

I put a small portion of porridge with a lot of milk into microwave, half heat for 5 minutes. Butter in, dissolve, cook some more, add a little muesli and granola to flavour. A whole new way of looking at the day.

Heat some soup. Same thing, maybe a little chilli sauce. For me, a little more chilli.

I do experience a mild queasyness from ingestion sometimes, but it passes without incident.

Both in the post will let you know when dropped and tested,,,,,,,

Can you let me know what these are like. Smoked a lot of both in the 90s but don’t know if they would do the trick now, don’t know if I would be better sticking to good flower.

Wowser! See my review in Tintin's comments. Hash or herb? Puff this and see!

Thanks bud, I'd really appreciate it.

No worries a luv my hash so was nice to see both up on the listings old skool puff but a recon it's better than the stuff about back in the day,,,

I would have taken a punt immediately, but in the last week I've had:
14g gorilla Glue from RB
7g Kandy Kush Caramel from Drugs uk (whenever that turns up!)
4.5 g Double filtered hash egg - 24K gold from hashlover420
...and I have 7g G13 haze hash and 7g strawberry haze hash from gent called 'the postman' from a dark market.

If I buy any more I fear my wife will divorce me! But I so want these two as well.....

Holy shit. I thought my weekly deliveries were getting out of hand. Great choices btw. Afghan turns up tomorrow (hopefully)

Mate I know what you mean about the divorce, I stupidly left my bank app open on my phone and my mrs was like “what the fuck have you been sending so much money to buy bitcoin”........ although when she added all the transactions up, it is actually pretty scary how it adds up..... she’s cool though.....

No wonder lol nice orders

Wow and I thought I had problems with self control!

LOL Good to have you guys around..

Tintin, I got the haslover stuff, amazing.. but what about the others you got, any especial mention ?

Yo Jon - nice to be able to discuss your hobby with other like minded types eh? Love biggie for that....
Nothing gets close to those double filtered cali strain hash eggs - they are insane! I've had the gellato sorbet and now the 24 K gold one, and they are both extraordinary..

As for the ones I mentioned earlier, I've yet to receive three of em! RB's Gorilla Glue is fine and that's tonight's hash of choice, but I am a hoarder and I'm sitting on 18 varieties of hash and three buds right now, so there's a lot of competition! I'd rate the gorilla glue maybe mid level of the ones I have, but I have been collecting the best strains I can find from the Dark Net, so mid level is still a very nice smoke :)

Discounting the eggs, one of my faves was TGT's Royal Ketima Gold.
I got a bit of that and still have about 10g left - its not the strongest (The premium red leb from druksinc takes that crown), but its the one I enjoy most overall, but they all pretty good. I finished TGT's lemon amnesia hash yesterday and I really enjoyed that one, but reception on it was mixed, so that's not maybe everyone's choice.
I prefer indica buzz mainly, and I'm keen on traditional Macaroon strains, of which there's not many on biggie right now, but TGT had some wonderful marocs about two months back, so I expect we'll see more soon!

Good call on the Ketima. Very good call. And I've had the eggs, which are elsewhere. Man knows his blow.

Good indeed ! Thank you for your reply man !!

I'm sitting on 8 diff hash types and looking fwd to add the Leb and Afg from TFG asap (payday today.. :) Also we have semi blonde leb and "black hash" from hashisin.. and there is a new Icesolator from RB I think.. finally we have some varieties here, looking fwd to hashlover new batch.. I missed last one..

Ah! A fellow hoarder :) Yeah its nice to see variety improving and price coming down again.

You may be aware that the largest DM, Emp, has gone down. One of their best UK hash vendors shifted onto another DM i'm on, and I've been persuading him to set up here on biggy too and he tells me he will - once he gets his head around it!
Look out for 'The Postman' - amazing hashes at just over £10/g.
Current hash strains:
G13 Haze
Strawberry Haze
Premium Zero Zero
Royal Afghani
OG kush
All critical 'A' grade, mostly 25%+ thc , and free postage.
Hopefully on biggy real soon. I wont stop badgering him till he's here :)

Wow! He's setting up on lb? Cool.

We need Mr Postman in LB asap pleeeease !! :)

Re bud, any recommends ? I think I will give the Mimosa from TGT a try...

I hear good things about that bud, and many have praised the buds TGT offer, so I doubt you'd go wrong with that.

I tend to buy hash, but I like a few buds in the bag too :)
I personally wont buy bud on biggy as imo its priced far too highly. I get my bud from a UK collective and pay £35 for the 3.5 and under £220 for an oz, and its just about the best bud I've bought (easily Amsterdam coffee shop quality).

You are spoilt for choice here on biggie though and TGT strains look real good, you are unlikely to go wrong with them.
However, there's tons of choice here and shout outs to Hootan and RB and druginc who all deliver banging bud, but some of the new vendors look real interesting too.

I'm taking a punt on a new vendor here shortly, blame canada, as I've heard amazing things about Canadian quality since legislation and its been suggested its cali quality at very affordable prices, so I want to see for myself. You can only buy oz or above though, and you have to wait for that to ship from Canada, so I wouldn't recommend it unless you are comfortable with the risk and wait.

I am now deff more into hash also..

But I always loved green, it would be nice to know how to get in touch with this UK collective..

I just couldn't resist and sent my order for TGT Nep.. lol

I'm sorry dude I'd risk my account if I tried to share.

I considered trying to be clever and started writing you a chat message, but biggy is coded clever and knew what was happening and reminded me I'd lose my account.

I love biggy and wont risk it!

Wow, good to know.. I should probably read the rules.. lol

Sorry about that..

I thought I was rippin the arse outa it with 4 hash’s n 6 diff weeds :)

Yeah. I've got a lockable medicine (sic) cabinet with jars on the three shelves. I have had something in most of them once but now it's the other way round!

Is this hash the soft squishy type or does it need to be burnt?

Roll a sausage and then stick and flatten it in on empty skin tobacco over and roll!

Do it the indian way.

Pick it onto baccy. Then squidge the whole lot up and crumble that.

You can do it twice even. It should mean that it coats the baccy for a more consistent creamy smoke.

i personally roll a sausage then pick bits of the sausage into the joint. Putting a full sausage in usually just side burns to fuck for me

Roll it!! It’s the only way to do it! Takes me back to my youth and by the looks of it most people who buy this are looking for the same feeling!!!

Depending on the hash. If it is a hard powdery hash I use a scalpel and scrape the hash to make a powder and then either smoke in a joint with tobacco or even better in a DynaVap with some organic cotton as a filter. The latter is pure dynamite and a little really does go a long way. If it is "squidy" mould the hash into a sausage and add to a joint and make as usual. You can also sprinkle onto your weed joints for an extra kick which can be tasty as well.

Im only use to pollen where I am so usually I burn and sprinkle into joints. This afghan is squidgy so will follow your advice and roll in sausages and put in a joint. Cheers for the advice bud.

Get a piece for one joint and burn it on something like a pin or paper clip as it burns way better that way then in a joint. Discovered this thirty years ago and it has always been the case with this sort of Afghan.

You mean similar to a hot knives type setup as oppose to joints? Nice to be able to get a range of different smokes on LB and experiment. Cheers man.

Yeah, exactly that setup.

OK sweet, I'm aware of it but never actually tired it. Will give it a go. Cheers bud.

Just don’t use wife or significant other’s new knifes.

The best black i had Gold Elephant stamped on it!!!

Jeeez.... and here’s me thinking i was the only one greedy enough to buy both of these hashes. Great to know there are more than a few old school smoker in here. Enjoy...

Hello Rogan. I've turned on for almost a bullseye now. Authentic fine quality hashish from traditional artisans is one to grab when it comes up. I got the Afghani and have reviewed it in Tintin's comments. So good.

Hello whatcanido234, yes its a fine hash to be smoking. Reminds me of the red and gold seal blacks of yesteryear. Where did all this stuff go eh. Paki Black, Sputnik, Zero Zero, Nepalese Temple Ball etc. Replaced by various types of light and dark rocky which i believe evolved into Soap Bar through late 80’s and the 90’s. Wind the clock back! the prices were better !!!

The producing countries still produce.... you just need to know where to find it ;)
I sell a vareity of original land race hashish from different producing countries on my shop. you are more than welcome to check it out! cheers

'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' (Mary Wollenston 1729-1797) Interesting point. Cheaper puff, lower incomes.

With the authentic Afghani and Red Leb, the Katima and the Zero Zero, along with modern classics like double-filtered Lemon Kush et al, we have, IMHO, never had it so good here.

For me, it's Bope Hope over Oliver Reed. (Bob's appellation is rhyming slang for dope, which he was reportedly furious about, as he was part of an anti-fun outfit including Hilary (big John) Wayne and Ron Reagan. He was from The Smoke himself. Perhaps he at least enjoyed the irony.
Good Ol' Ollie! He drove his green Rolls Royce into the end of a wall of a bridge on his plot, the road being less wide than the jamjar. He staggered out and yelled: 'I hated that fucking car!'
Renowned for his heavy drinking, he once remarked: 'I knew my way to the bar. Keith Moon showed me the way to the bizarre.'

Anyway, I don't smoke now and grass back in the day was usually Congolese of Jamacian, so the block was my puff of choice. Apropos herb, where are the Thai sticks now?
Somebody somewhere to be sure. Gear like that can often be moved and consumed among a small wealthy group with none left for the Proles.

I once had to beat off an idiot who thought it would be amusing to give me what what like the Heinenken (or whatever) Manoeuvre in the middle of a crowded pub. I was wearing a carefully put together waistband holding a bandolia of Thai Sticks under my jacket. I'm big, but I had to convey, with all the subtlety I could muster, to someone bright enough to get it, to get him the fuck off! PDQ! No harm done, in the event. I'll probably laugh about it one day. Ha ha!

No lunch today. Straight to the dessert of two cored Bramleys, studded with stoned dates, stoned being the operative word! Lovely!

this is one of the best things I've read in quite some time. Chin chin old horse.

The past is a different country is an LP Hartley quote.

Ha! The quote is from P.L.Hartley (1895-1972). I would get out more but ...