Carmel Animal Face Hash: Craft, Culture, and the Fight for Better Cannabis

In a market flooded with innovation, novelty, and fast-moving trends, Bam and Carmel Cannabis are doing something deceptively simple: bringing hash back to its roots and doing it right.

Built on decades of hands-on experience, Bam’s approach to hash isn’t about shortcuts or flashy gimmicks. It’s about honouring tradition while navigating the realities of a legal cannabis industry that is bringing consumers what they want!

The Carmel Moment (October 2022)

When Bam toured Carmel's facility in October 2022, the day they signed their 2.0 license Drew showed him their new hash lab equipment. Bam’s response was immediate: "If you need somebody, I'm your guy". By December 2022, he was hired. Thirty years of experience from that first hash hit had finally led him home

From Buckets to Legal Labs

Bam’s relationship with hash started early long before legalization, before compliance, before branding. As a young adult he was already learning from family growers, experimenting with bubble bags, and figuring things out through trial and error.

That foundation still defines his process today.

While his operation has evolved from hand-processing in buckets to refined machine-wash techniques in a licensed hash lab the philosophy hasn’t changed. Quality in equals quality out. No fillers, no distillates, no shortcuts. Just water, ice, heat, and pressure.

“If your starting material is good... all I do is bring out the quality that is given to me by the farmer. So thank God for Drew because without them, without Drew, Billy, and our partners and without the grow teams that make all that happen, I couldn't make a good product if I wasn't having good input material." - Boyd aka Bam

Elevating the Experience Through Design

The craftsmanship doesn’t stop at the hash itself.

Each temple ball is hand-rolled and hand-weighed, then packaged in a custom bamboo-topped container, a deliberate move that elevates both presentation and experience. It’s a nod to tradition wrapped in a premium, modern format. It also compliments the packaging Carmel uses for their prerolls! In a category that often gets overlooked in terms of packaging innovation, Carmel’s approach stands out. It signals care, quality, and intention before the product is even opened.