At a glance
ColdFire Extracts is a family-owned Southern California cannabis-extract brand founded by Nick Coburn and launched around late 2020. It became known for terpene-focused “ColdFire Juice” cartridges made through low-temperature extraction and frequent collaborations with California cultivators. The current catalog includes cartridges, disposable vaporizers, concentrates, batteries and merchandise, with drops tracked through a live locator.
Founder and early extraction work
Coburn told LA Weekly that his concentrate work began with open-blast butane extraction around 2008 or 2009, long before ColdFire entered the licensed market. The family business emerged from Los Angeles street and concentrate culture and launched its first badder products in 2021, followed by the cartridge line that drove wider recognition.
The official About page does not publish a complete family or co-founder roster. Nick Coburn is therefore identified as the documented founder without assigning ownership roles to unnamed relatives.
What “ColdFire Juice” means
ColdFire’s central product idea is to preserve the aroma and flavor of the source cultivar in oil. The company describes a low-temperature extraction process and hand-selected cultivation partners. It does not foreground distillate or botanical-flavor formulation; its brand language focuses on cannabis-derived profiles and collaboration batches.
Terms such as “live,” “cured,” “resin” and “rosin” describe different inputs and processes. The package or product page should control the category; consumers should not assume every ColdFire cartridge uses the same extraction method.
Current products
The official store lists cartridges, disposable vapor products, concentrates, batteries and accessories. “Juice Bar” identifies the all-in-one vapor format, while the broader ColdFire Juice identity is used across cartridge releases. Products arrive as rotating drops rather than one permanent strain list.
Lab pages and package identifiers are more useful than copied potency percentages. Cannabinoid and terpene results change by collaboration, cultivar and batch, and this profile does not turn a lab number into a quality score.
Collaborations
ColdFire has built its catalog with cultivators and creators rather than treating source flower as anonymous. Documented partners across releases and competition entries include Team Elite Genetics, Lumpy’s Flowers, Blueprint, Green Dawg Cultivators, Valley Grove and Mountain Man Melts. A collaboration credit applies to the named release, not to the entire partner’s catalog.
Awards and recognition
At the 2024 Emerald Cup, ColdFire Extracts and Mountain Man Melts won first place in the solventless cartridge category for the Spritzer ColdFire Juice Bar. A multi-partner Mimosa #3 release placed third in the live-resin cartridge category. LA Weekly also included ColdFire in its 2022 cannabis and 710 coverage.
The Emerald Cup results are product- and collaboration-specific. They should not be simplified into a claim that every ColdFire release is an award winner.
Where to buy
ColdFire is a California licensed-market brand sold through dispensaries listed in its locator and recent-drops pages. Retail inventory changes quickly; the brand is not a nationwide direct-shipping vape company. Online shops or cloned pages that offer unrestricted shipment should not be assumed authorized merely because they use the logo.
Counterfeits and verification
Popular cartridge brands attract copied packaging and unauthorized sellers. The safest checks are the licensed retailer, California universal symbol and warning information, manufacturer and license details, UID or batch number, and matching lab result. Social posts and package appearance alone do not establish authenticity.
Claim limits. The official site describes flavor preservation and quality priorities but does not disclose a patent number, exact sub-zero temperature, or universal additive statement for every SKU. Those details circulate in retailer profiles; this page leaves them out unless tied to first-party process documentation. It also makes no medical or safety guarantee from terpene content.
Research notes and sources
- ColdFire’s About, product, drop, locator and lab pages establish the current business model and categories.
- LA Weekly’s founder interview supplies Nick Coburn’s name and pre-brand extraction history.
- Emerald Cup results establish the two specific 2024 cartridge placements and their collaborators.
- Founder year and early product sequence are corroborated by multiple retailer histories but treated as approximate where ColdFire’s own site is silent.