what we changed this year.

spring is the quarter where you can hear yourself think. two months of orders steady, no new products launching, lab results filed, the polytunnel closing for the last of the cold nights. we use it to go back over everything we sell and ask: is this still the best version of it?

three answers this year, in descending order of confidence.

01 · the cbg oil is now cold-run.

we used to warm-process our cbg distillate to speed the reaction. it worked — a pale, clear oil, reliable mg, consistent batch-to-batch. but cbg is volatile. the heat drove off a portion of the minor terpenes that we believed (and now know) give it the bright, grass-cut character we kept hearing about in customer notes.

so from batch cg-2601 onwards the cbg runs cold. the process takes three days instead of eight hours. yield is lower. taste — we think — is the point of the product, not a side effect. the numbers are identical on paper: 500mg cbd + 750mg cbg in 5ml. the bottle looks the same. the mouthfeel does not.

02 · we pulled the 99.8%.

the isolate oil used to list "1000mg · 99.8% pure" on the label. the 99.8% was accurate for the batches we ran through our original lab — an average of 11 batches over 18 months. but when we moved to the new iso 17025 facility in january, the average settled at 99.1%. still pure. still a cbd isolate by any meaningful definition. but the 99.8% was a specific number, and specific numbers are a promise.

so we pulled it. the new label says "1500mg · 15ml · 100mg per ml · neutral taste". we bumped the strength while we were at it — the old 1000mg bottle was the smallest on the shelf and customers kept underdosing with it. the full coa is on lab results, as always, showing exact purity batch-by-batch. if a specific batch hits 99.8% again, the paperwork will say so.

03 · a new extract, not yet ready.

for the past six months we've been quietly working on a solventless live-rosin extract. pressed from fresh-frozen flower, no co2, no ethanol, no heat past 93°c. the intention is a bhp take on a full-plant concentrate that sits alongside our feco but reads completely differently on the palate.

it isn't ready. we've run four pilot batches and the yield is too small to commit to a price, the consistency varies more than we'd like (some batches are honey, some are sugary), and the coa shows a terpene profile we can't yet promise to reproduce. we're sharing it here because we'd rather tell you it's coming than surprise you, and because it will only launch once we're sure of it.

expect it with the autumn edition. or later, if it needs longer.

small print.

the vape flavours (zours, fire og) stay the same for the summer. the balm — the quietly highest-rated thing we sell — is being retested against two alternative beeswax suppliers. no change planned, just checking. the capsules have a new batch (cp-2602-a) whose d8 content came in 2mg higher than usual, which we noted in the coa and then decided to leave the label alone. the variance is within our dossier tolerance and we don't think you need to know about it to buy it — but if you're reading this letter, you do now.

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— the bhp team
brereton heath · 29 march 2026