Later in his career, Lyons and his wife became private chefs for many of the( former) St. Louis Rams NFL players, as well as several St. Louis Cardinals MLB players. If that wasn’ t already a stacked resume for a chef, Lyons’ last job as a chef was for the Royal Family of Morocco. Around the same time Lyons finished feeding royalty and training their culinary team, Missouri was accepting applications for its medical marijuana program. Lyons had been a cannabis consumer since an early age and had already been experimenting with washing hash as far back as 2005. With little information available to the public back then, Lyons experimented a lot to make cannabutter without that plant taste in his infused brownies and cookies. A problem he would eventually solve not just for chefs, but also for all the NOT-so-chefs / microwavers out there( more about that later).
Back to Missouri’ s license applications for MMJ. Lyons put his entire life savings into his MMJ applications, and like many others, he did not emerge as a winner. That’ s when Lyons decided to head west to chase his cannabis career dreams.“ In 2019, I would make trips out to California to some legacy licensed cannabis farms I had connections within the Mendocino County area. I would show up around their harvest season with a camper that I converted into a mobile hash lab,” said Lyons. Then later, down the road— literally— he helped launch a few hash brands like House Exotics in Arizona and Rif Mountain in Nevada.
Lyons had always wanted to return to his home state of Missouri with his hash-washing dreams, and through his network, he finally got the opportunity when another team reached out after securing a MIP license. They commenced operations a little over a year ago and entered a deal to bring Stellar brands to the market in Missouri. Lyons’ team is currently washing and pressing around a million grams of hash for cultivators like the previously mentioned Borealis, as well as Sinse, Stability, Vertical, and others. Stellar is the definition of a small business— made up of a group of friends who are passionate about cannabis and specifically hash. Lyons and his wife, who press all the Stellar Solventless Live Hash Rosin, work hand in hand with Director of Operations Dan Gutierrez and his wife Dawn, who operate the day-to-day operations.
One of Stellar’ s most popular products is its unique aged full-melt hash-infused pre-rolls, which are basically Piatella for a much smoother, more enjoyable smoke.“ Aged hash infusion is a totally different experience, and we are the first and only group doing a hashinfused pre-roll that uses hash that has been carefully aged for six to seven months, and possibly the only one in the country,” said Lyons.“ One thing to equate it to is the wine industry. A world-class Cabernet wine is good at one year, but it doesn’ t live up to its full potential until year 10. Hash is very similar when it is aged between 60-65 degrees with no light and no oxygen for around six months to a year. Peak ripeness happens between six and 18 months.” The oldest hash Lyons has in his experiment is just over nine years old.
The Stellar Solventless team( left to right) Aaron Lyons, CEO; Dan Gutierrez, director of operations; and Jarhett Wirth, lab director, are holding vacuumed sealed bags of Piatella, a hash rosin.
Stellar’ s other very popular product is its infused cannabis powder called Highdrate that comes in three flavors: lemonade, sweet tea, and electrolyte lemon lime flavor. It also has a non-flavored infused powder that you can literally put into any of your baking recipes( excluding frying— too hot) or on top of any foods or drinks. Ask for it at dispensary near you.
Highdrate Sweet Tea flavor( on left) hash rosin beverage powder mix by Stellar Solventless. Simply add Highdrate( Hybrid, THC 25mg, full-spectrum) to water or your favorite drink to create your own rosin-infused beverage wherever you are. Stellar Solventless Hash is never made using harsh chemicals or solvents.
Highdrate is available in three flavors: sweet tea, lemonade, and electrolyte lemon lime flavor. It’ s also available as a non-flavored infused powder.
That brings me to the most exciting news of the summer for all you chefs or non-chefs out there. Our readers have been asking,“ What happened to the infused recipes we published for several years?” Well, the Stellar team will now offer readers monthly infused recipes made with non-flavored Highdrate! Finally, you’ ll learn an easy way to infuse your favorite foods and drinks. See page 33 for this month’ s recipe.
Clayton Stallings is the Director of Sales & Marketing for
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