Butter Mints, spelled Butter Mintz nearly everywhere it gets catalogued, is Blue Chip Genetics' cross of Kush Mints and Peanut Butter Breath. It reads as a savory dessert cultivar rather than a candy one, and the flower is dense and heavily frosted.
Where It Comes From
There is no published breeding diary for this one, so the honest way to date it is through its parents. Kush Mints came out of Seed Junky Genetics in Southern California in the late 2010s. Peanut Butter Breath is credited to ThugPug Genetics, founded around 2016 in Michigan, and built from Do-Si-Dos crossed with Mendo Breath F2.
Butter Mints therefore sits downstream of both. It is a cross that could only exist once the mint and Breath families were already circulating, which puts it in the first wave of work in that lane rather than among the later imitations.
One naming caution: Butter Mintz is not Peanut Butter Mintz, and it is not Peanut Butter Breath Mintz from Aeque Genetics. Similar names, different crosses, different plants. Menus mix them constantly.
The Cross
Blue Chip Genetics is credited with the cross. The documented genetics run Kush Mints x Peanut Butter Breath, and both sides are well mapped.
Kush Mints is Bubba Kush x Animal Mints, with Animal Mints commonly given as Animal Cookies x SinMint Cookies and Bubba Kush tracing to OG Kush and Northern Lights. Peanut Butter Breath's Do-Si-Dos x Mendo Breath F2 pairing pulls in GSC and Face Off OG on one side, Mendo Montage and OGKB on the other.
That is a lot of Cookies and a lot of Kush stacked on both halves. It explains the density and the resin load. It does not predict any single plant's chemistry, and terpene rank shifts batch to batch, so it belongs on the current lab panel rather than on the strain name.
Flower is typically dense and heavily frosted, with chunky, tight structure. That is the shape both parents tend to throw, and it carries through here consistently.
What It Left Behind
No competition placement is documented. Its real footprint is genetic rather than competitive: it is one of many crosses that carried the mint-and-Breath lane onto modern menus, not a strain that reshaped the market itself. That is a fair place for it, and an honest one. A well-built cross in a crowded family, doing the work without the mythology.
The High Rise Take
Butter Mints is Blue Chip's Kush Mints x Peanut Butter Breath: dense, frosted flower off two thoroughly documented parent lines. Buy it on the grower and the batch panel, and check the spelling before you assume you have the plant you think you have.