small changes, april.
notes from a re-drawn house. why we added a second distillate alongside the h4, what it actually is, and a coa that came back this morning.
three things since the spring letter went out, none of them planned to coincide. but they all landed in the same fortnight, so this is an off-cycle note rather than waiting for june.
01 · we redrew the house.
the site has had its first ground-up rebuild since we opened in 2021. the old setup had outgrown itself — the cart was awkward, every shop page was its own little island, and the journal had no proper home. we started over.
the new bhpcbd.com is faster on a phone, the journal lives in one place (the one you're reading from), the lab results have a permanent shelf instead of being filed under the wrong heading, and the checkout takes about a third as long as it did before. nothing about the products has moved — same hemp, same extraction, same independent lab. the prices haven't shifted either. the only difference is that you can actually find what you came for, and we can ship it faster.
02 · a full spectrum distillate, alongside the h4.
since the spring letter we've added a new product: a full spectrum distillate. it sits next to the h4cbd on the shelf — same form, same price (£34.99), same 1g jar — but the chemistry is quite different.
h4cbd is hydrogenated. four extra hydrogen atoms locked into the cbd molecule for shelf-stability. it's clean, predictable, and — if you're pressing tinctures or filling vape carts — it stays where you put it for two years sealed. it is, on a coa, almost pure cbd by another name.
the new full-spectrum distillate is the opposite end of that conversation. nothing's been refined out. you get cbd, plus cbg, cbn, traces of cbc and thcv, plus the original terpenes — the ones that give this material its plant-forward smell when you crack the jar. it sits at 80–85% total cannabinoids by mass, runs darker amber, and doesn't last as long as the h4 — twelve months sealed, refrigerate after opening.
we made it because customers kept asking for a base ingredient that wasn't isolate but also wasn't h4. the entourage effect, or whatever you want to call it, lives in the minor cannabinoids — and isolate strips them out, while h4 is cbd-only by design. this fills the gap. raw, plant-forward, intended for blenders. £34.99 for 1g.
03 · a coa from this morning.
batch dt-2614-a — the first production run of the new distillate — came back from the lab this morning. 84.2% total cannabinoids: 79.4% cbd, 2.8% cbg, 1.1% cbn, traces of cbc, no detectable d9-thc. terpenes registered at 1.9% with a noticeable myrcene/pinene profile, which tracks with the nose on it.
the only thing slightly off-spec was moisture content — 0.34%, against our internal target of below 0.25%. it's still well within the ph eur threshold for a finished extract, and it doesn't affect shelf life or potency. but next batch we'll dehydrate longer. the kind of small note that lives on the lab results page rather than getting emailed out — except that you're reading the letter, so you'll know to look.
small print.
the live-rosin extract promised in the spring letter is still on track — pilot batches 5 and 6 came back this week, the consistency is finally sugar-stable, and we expect to launch with the autumn edition. we'll write properly about it then. we've also opened a quiet instagram at @bhpcbdshop — mostly things we'd otherwise turn into a letter, which means smaller updates than this one will probably end up there first.
— the bhp team
brereton heath · 26 april 2026