Racecar is a solventless rosin from Punch Extracts, the Los Angeles house that has been pressing hash in California since 2013. No hydrocarbon touches it. The resin is washed off the plant with ice and water, dried, then pressed under heat through mesh. The whole process is mechanical, start to finish.
The house that runs the press
Punch Edibles & Extracts was founded in 2013 by Andrew O'Donnell, who still runs it as CEO alongside co-owner and CFO Samantha O'Donnell. It started as a Proposition 215 operator, crossed into California's adult-use market in 2018, and now operates in California, Oklahoma and New York.
It is also one of the few self-funded multi-state operators in the category, and that shows up in how the solventless line runs: small batches, a narrow release calendar, and a drop list instead of a permanent menu. The wider catalog sits on the Punch Edibles and Extracts brand page.
Fresh frozen is the whole argument
Punch presses its rosin from fresh-frozen flower rather than dried and cured material. Freezing at harvest keeps volatile compounds locked in the plant that would otherwise boil off on a drying rack, and those compounds are most of what reaches your palate.
The frozen material is washed into hash with ultra-purified ice water in a climate-controlled room, then pressed through fine mesh so the plant matter stays behind. Less material going into the press means less to purge coming out of it.
Four tiers, one line
The solventless catalog is graded across four tiers. The tier reflects which fraction of the wash made it into the jar — the cleaner, more selective screens sit at the top, yield less, cost more, and disappear faster when a drop lands.
It is the most consistent signal on a Punch jar from one release to the next. Farms rotate, cultivars rotate, and the tier grading stays put across the line.
Neither one is a grade. They are two finishes on the same press. Batter loads a cold-start banger without running off the tool; fresh press rewards a lower temperature and a quicker draw. Colour is not a grade either — filtration, plant maturity, storage and age all move it.
What sits next to it on the drop list
The rest of Punch's solventless work makes the natural comparison. GMO Rosin is the savoury, garlic-forward end of the house style. Garlic Punch Rosin pushes that same direction harder. Fatso Rosin brings the doughy, heavier side of the catalog.
Across all of them, heat is the lever that decides what you actually get. Rosin this clean gives up its character in a narrow temperature window, and the difference between a good dab and a wasted one is often 50 degrees. The low-temp versus high-temp dab breakdown covers where that window sits and why it moves with texture.
Browse the concentrate archive for other Punch releases, use the brand directory for producer context, and consult the dab-temperature guide for handling choices that can affect aroma and vapor. The strain library keeps cultivar histories separate from concentrate formats.