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Manufacturing
Milestones
Papa & Barkley's first
balm recipes used lipid
infusion. Courtesy photo
Traditional 2.0
Papa & Barkley blends tradition and innovation
for a manufacturing makeover
By Omar Sacirbey
O
ne of Guy Rocourt's earliest
attempts at making
solventless, extract-infused
gummies involved rosin pressed from
kief, but that left the gummies tasting
bitter.
The CEO and chief product officer of
Papa & Barkley, a Eureka, Californiabased
product manufacturer, also
considered soaking whole flower in
oil-so-called lipid infusion-like he did
to create infused balms, patches and
other topicals. But when the resulting
oil was used in gummies, they tasted
too much like the cannabis plant.
Ultimately, Rocourt realized that
if he performed a lipid infusion
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by soaking kief in coconut oil, the
resulting extract was " very sweet. "
" Our hash rosin gummies are not
technically powered by rosin but by
kief hash that's been infused in coconut
oil, which has a sweet taste with no
bitterness, " Rocourt said. He added that
Papa & Barkley doesn't use any artificial
flavors or preservatives in its gummies
to mask the cannabis taste.
" The way to get around the
bitterness is by being a cook and
figuring out how to use that ingredient
in the right way, " he said.
While manufacturing technology
has dramatically improved since
the advent of regulated markets,
successful cannabis product
manufacturing depends less on
technology and more on plant
expertise, Rocourt said-especially at a
time when consumers are demanding
more whole-plant products.
" The real trick to solventless is
TLC-tender loving care of your
product-and really understanding
how to manipulate the cannabis
plant, " said Rocourt, whose company
manufactures ice water hash, badder,
capsules, rosin, softgels and topicals as
well as hash-infused gummies, rosininfused
chocolates and other THCinfused
products sold in California, as
well as CBD products sold nationally.

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