Grower: Golden Temple
Rating: 4.6
Yā Bin is the much celebrated, deservingly so, cultivar from Golden Temple. The bud is super strong and has left many an experienced toker grasping for reality and questioning gravity. I would suggest that those readers curious about the effects of combusting this bud read the original article written a few months back. This time around I decided not to combust the bud but vape it. Golden Temple buds are incredibly unique and wonderful to behold and consume—but they are very strong. I suspected that vaping the buds at a low temperature would reveal more about the bud so I previously vaped Redwine Bubblegum at 180 Celsius. The results were a profound and deep high similar to combusting—but with added flavor. I then decided that with Yā Bin I would drop the temperature further down.
To begin with and by way of background, the aromas of this batch of Yā Bin came through strong with gas, citrus and peach schnapps. I vaped the buds at 170 and 175 Celsius which revealed flavors of apricot, orange peel, sugar, sweet syrupy liquor and port—at 175 Celsius a clean herbal mintiness also came out.
The highs were spectacular, and unlike combusting were incredibly mellow and controllable. At 170 C I felt awake, alert, with a pleasant and welcome pressure around the head from ear to ear. At 175 C the high became more amusing, happy, giggly—easily startled but then also completely delighted with the act of being surprised.
I very highly recommend dry vaping Yā Bin. In fact I rate it higher than combusting the bud as the high is more controllable and enjoyable. But this brings me back to just how incredible Golden Temple buds are. There is so much going on—there are so many levels and layers to these buds—that it takes breaking them down by temperature to get the full picture. Indeed, I feel like my experiments have just begun and I wish I had more free time to continue playing around with the temperatures. I believe I am on to something special.
