Golden Tiger by Moment’s Peace

I don’t really have a story to tell about Golden Tiger, at least not as I begin writing this review. My regular readers may already be wondering something along the lines of “Then why review Golden Tiger?” or “I wonder if after rambling for a few hundred words, will you realize you’re telling a story anyway?” I can answer the first of those hypothetical questions, and I guess we’ll see about the second in a few hundred words or so.

With all due respect to all of the other growers whose flower I have smoked, vaped, sold, bought, photographed, written about, reviewed, and otherwise fawned over, Golden Tiger by Moment’s Peace is one of the single finest cultivations of a strain of cannabis that I have ever experienced. I have smoked some of their other strains, and they are also fantastic quality, and I have smoked strains from other growers that I have enjoyed as much as Golden Tiger. Golden Tiger, for me at least, very clearly and inarguably belongs in the highest tier of strains and cultivations for both quality and overall enjoyment.

And I guess I found my story already, but it’s not terribly long or involved. It could start in a couple of places, but I’ll stick to a chronological accounting.

Not long at all after I had started working at the recreational dispensary where I budtend, we received a lone, small batch of rosin concentrate amongst our regular order. It was from a grower none of us had heard of, it was a strain which none of us were specifically familiar, and it was uniquely priced in our system at the highest and most premium level. Lacking, at that moment, direct access to a human we knew who could answer any questions about said rosin, I began digging around on the internet for anything I could find. It wasn’t hard to find the Moment’s Peace’s website. But I was new to this kind of cannabis investigation, and wasn’t 100% on some industry terminology, and I hadn’t any experience dabbing concentrates at that point, so once I found what information was immediately available (strain info, some number with a “μ” after it, etc.), I did some more digging independent of Moment’s Peace.

I believe the words I used to tell my coworker what I had found were something along the lines of “I think this may be the finest product we sell now.” His response was just to make giddy noises. I know this is a review of a particular strain, but I think a lot can be said for Moment’s Peace generally as well which only lends weight to my review of the strain. Before even smoking or dabbing their products, I was (and continue to be) terribly impressed with their transparency as a business, both by including information about their MOFGA Certified Clean Cannabis status (including links to MOFGA’s C3 website) and general organic growing methods, but also by including on their products QR codes to the testing data sheets, so you can see the actual test results for cannabinoid and terpene contents.

There are mixed opinions in the industry on how much of this information growers should want to share, and I am firmly on the side of providing more information for the consumer should they want it. I think of it like food requiring an ingredients lists. If I’m putting something into my body, be it smoke, vapor, medicine, or food, I would like to know what’s in it. Given that there is actual lab science showing the entourage effects of various terpenes with cannabinoids when they enter our systems, and since these responses vary from person to person, and some of those responses are negative, it can only benefit the consumer to know what to seek or avoid in their cannabis. But I’ll jump down from my soapbox now. Growers can do as they will; it’s their product, and I respect wanting to keep some things proprietary.

Back to Golden Tiger. So, we got this Moment’s Peace rosin (which was not Golden Tiger). It was fantastic. But that was all we had of theirs for a few months. Jumping ahead, and suddenly Moment’s Peace flower arrived in our store, including a sativa none of us were familiar with which had an uninspiring 12.4% THC. But, looking more closely, I found its lineage to be very intriguing: two landrace strains. For those unfamiliar, briefly, landrace strains are basically those varieties of cannabis that pre-exist intentional human hybridization and possibly human cultivation of the plant as well. It’s the wild weeds. Some other noteworthy offspring of only landrace strains include White Widow (Brazilian and South Indian landraces), Northern Lights (Afghani and Thai), and Skunk 1 (Afghani and Acapulco Gold).

Golden Tiger is the offspring of Thai and Malawi landrace cannabis varieties. So I thought “What the hell, let’s try it. Bring it on low THC sativa. Whatchu got?”

What it’s got is absolutely beautiful buds. Nice medium to bright green, orangey tendril-like hairs throughout, fluffy but not delicate, visible trichomes that made the little sugar leaves look almost like tiny little prickly pear cacti.

What it’s got is an enticing aroma. The smooth earthiness and bright citrus notes compete for dominance, immediately giving the impression of complexity. The afternotes leave a gentle fruity softness in the nose, gently sprinkled with just enough black pepper to again keep it interesting.

What it’s got is a smoke that is clean and easy, with a pleasantly medium body. Smoke that while bringing forward some bitter and tart overtones as the earth and fruit compete with each other once again, leaves a lingering flavor of rich earth and pepper. Some strains don’t taste at all like smoke, and some do. Of those that do, some are good and some not so good. Particularly as someone who only smokes cannabis and not tobacco, I am picky about smokiness, and Golden Tiger passes this test. The smokiness has the kind of flavorful quality that reminds me of the way smoke enhances the flavor of foods like barbeque: perhaps on its own it would not be enjoyable, but in this context it very much is.

And what it’s got is a fantastic high. I feel relaxed, both physically and emotionally. It’s a gently euphoric, thought-provoking high. I never feel dumbed down, but instead social and well-balanced. In a funk? It brings me up and out. Feeling good already? It only makes things better. And I’ll trade getting the tiniest bit of dry mouth for the light pain relief and lack of munchies accompanying it.

Following that first experience with Golden Tiger, the next time I was at work, all I wanted to do was sing its praises to my coworkers and customers. It was the strain that truly not only convinced me but demonstrated in no uncertain terms that low THC can still provide superior highs, if cultivated correctly.

There’s something to be said for intense highs, getting stoned out of my mind, or couch-locking and passing out, but I have really been enjoying my more subtle and lucid highs recently. It was a perfect time for Golden Tiger to come back into my orbit. This is a strain that for me falls into the same group as Princess Magic Girl and Lotus Blossom. Some strains just make you feel better. While they certainly won’t monopolize my future reviews, be assured I’ll be reviewing more gentle but quality strains in the future.

But for now, do yourself a solid by trying Golden Tiger by Moment’s Peace if you haven’t already. You won’t regret it.

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