10/20/2026
There is a useful habit in extraction: when two materials share a chemistry, they tend to share a solution, and it is worth knowing which industry got there first.
Hops are the clearest example for anyone working with cannabis. The two are close relatives in the Cannabaceae family, down to the terpenes they hold in common, and both keep their prized compounds in resin glands where volatile aromatics sit exposed to any heat the process introduces. Brewers faced that problem long before the cannabis industry existed at scale, and they settled on CO₂ for reasons that will sound entirely familiar: it protects the aromatic fraction, it can be tuned for selectivity, and it leaves nothing behind.
The lesson is less about hops than about pattern recognition. The compound behaves the same way regardless of the plant, so the method that respects it tends to as well.
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