Pastries Live Hash Rosin Badder is Society C's fully solventless take on a dessert cut — washed from fresh-frozen flower, pressed to rosin, then cold-cured into badder. It is the jar that put a real cup placement behind the brand's solventless line.
A Michigan operation with caregiver roots
Society C launched in 2019 under parent company Natrabis, founded by Nick Simpson, Ben Puraj, and Michael Thomas — all of whom came up through Michigan's caregiver market before the adult-use system existed.
In 2021 they opened a 54,000-square-foot cultivation facility in Orion Township running nine flowering rooms. That scale matters for a solventless program: washing needs a constant supply of flower grown specifically for it, and a company that controls its own rooms can select for resin rather than buying whatever is available.
The three-part build
Live hash rosin badder is made in three stages. First, ice-water hash is washed from fresh-frozen material — flower frozen at or near harvest rather than dried and cured. Second, that hash is pressed with heat and pressure into rosin. Third, the rosin is agitated through a cold cure until it sets opaque and spreadable.
No hydrocarbon solvent touches any stage. The whole process is mechanical, which is what the solventless label actually guarantees, and Society C's line is made with ice, water, heat, and pressure only, pressed from single-sourced flower.
Why the cold cure matters
Fresh off the press, rosin is glossy and unstable. A cold cure — holding it at low temperature while it separates and reforms — turns it into a consistent, spreadable badder that scoops cleanly and stays where you put it.
It is also the step that costs the most in time and in cold storage, which is why not every producer bothers. The trade-off is a texture that handles like a solvent badder while keeping the flavor of a pressed hash.
The cup run
The credential is specific: 3rd place, Adult Use Non-Solvent Concentrates, at the 2023 High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan, People's Choice edition, for Society C's Pastries Live Rosin.
The same brand took 1st in Adult Use Indica Flower that year for Spritzer, and returned in 2024 with a 3rd in Indica Flower and a 2nd in Non-Distillate Vapes. A People's Choice edition is judged by consumers rather than a panel, which makes a placement a measure of how a product actually performed in people's hands.
The dessert lane in solventless
Pastry and cookie profiles dominate solventless menus for a practical reason: vanilla, dough, and cream survive a wash and a press better than delicate fruit notes do. A cultivar built around baked-good sweetness keeps its character where a bright citrus cut would thin out.
The Oreoz line is one of the clearest examples of that profile, and it shows up across the category. Society C's other solventless jars cover neighboring ground — the Spritzer press runs brighter and Gummiez rosin leans candy — and the rest of the textures line up in the High Rise concentrate library.