Claybourne's Hash Burger: Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year, Sold Straight — No Frills, No Infusion

Claybourne Co. built its name on the elaborate end of the menu — hash-infused pre-rolls, collaboration drops, packaging that reads more like a streetwear release than a dispensary jar. Founded in 2017 by childhood friends Nick Ortega, Brent Barnes, and Jonathan Griffith out of California's Inland Empire, the brand grew into one of the state's largest flower and pre-roll houses on the back of that theatrical presentation. Which makes its Small Buds line the odd one out: no fancy tin, no infusion, just hand-trimmed indoor smalls in a plain glass jar at 7, 14, or 28 grams. Right now the strain running through that line is Hash Burger, and it happens to be the biggest name in flower this year.

Hash Burger comes from Respect and Mrs. Respect of California Seed Bank, who started the cross in 2019 by pairing Han Solo Hash Plant with Double Burger — a lineage that ultimately traces back to Chemdawg through Double Burger's GMO parentage. The result is a roughly 60/40 indica-dominant hybrid built for funk over sweetness: garlic, onion, cheese, and black pepper up front, with gas and musk underneath. It's a deliberate departure from the "candy-gas" terpene profiles that have dominated legal flower for the last few years, and that departure is exactly what got it noticed.

Leafly named Hash Burger its 2025 Strain of the Year, citing a run of roughly 9,000 monthly page views and demand that kept climbing all year on "unapologetic funk and no small amount of style." Top cuts have tested as high as the low 30s on THC and the plant is a notably efficient hash source, reportedly yielding upward of 7% by weight when pressed — a detail that matters given the strain's namesake. It also picked up a silver award at the 2024 California State Fair Cannabis Awards.

Claybourne's own shelf numbers run cooler than the strain's headline THC figures — lab results on recent Small Buds batches at California retailers have landed around 22–24%, not the 28–35% sometimes quoted for standout cuts elsewhere. That's the tradeoff the Small Buds line is upfront about: smalls are pulled from lower on the plant, so the number on the jar is a true batch test rather than a cherry-picked flagship cola, and the price reflects it. What doesn't change is the effect — a heavy, sedating body high that settles in fast and holds, built for the end of the day rather than the start of it.

It's a strange pairing on paper — a brand known for dressing flower up, selling the year's most-hyped strain completely undressed — but it works. If you want to know what Hash Burger actually tastes and smokes like without paying a premium for the cut, Claybourne's straight, no-frills jar is the honest way to try it.