Originally Posted by Far-L

The color / clarity is a consumer perception issue imo. The light tan or translucent green tinted stuff sells better, but that doesn't mean it is better. So many factors play on the color, consistency, potency etc. - filtration, solvent, vacuum, temperature, humidity, etc. so something that is light tan doesn't necessarily mean it is better, nor whether it comes out as a wax/shatter/sugar. For example, even the external temperature in relation to the relative humidity can play a factor whether one run comes out wax and the very next comes out shatter.

I don't think there is a single what I would call "Budweiser" solution, where no matter where it is produced it will still taste and look the same. Budweiser has super strict quality controls to produce a consistent product the world over and any one that has done or knows microbrews will tell you how difficult that would be to achieve for beer, let alone canna concentrates.

In terms of weed, even two buds from the same exact plant can have wildly different qualities in terms of potency, terpene profile, etc. so that complicates things significantly. I think the industry will evolve to that level of quality control but it is not there yet imho.

Propane I think is the dirtiest solvent, especially since there are different qualities of propane, and the cleanest propane's expense goes back to the same issue I mentioned earlier - profit over health concerns.