Solventless Cup
A cannabis event built around solventless products, whose 2025 edition was listed for Buffalo, New York.
- 53results on record
- 2024–2026years in our data
- 3editions
- 17matched to strains
- Sol Buffalo Pool Bar & Restaurant, Buffalo, NY, USAlatest location
01Beginnings
The Solventless Cup is a cannabis event centred on solventless products. Where it came from is a different matter. The sources gathered for this page do not say who founded it, when it first ran, or why it was started. No earlier editions are documented either, so the first year of the Cup is unknown here. The only Cup-specific source available is a promotional event listing for the 2025 edition1, which describes that edition rather than the event's past. Until a better source turns up, the origin story stays blank.
02The Story So Far
What the listing does reveal is how the awards are meant to work. It says competition categories are evaluated by both industry experts and consumers1. The listing does not name the categories or list past winners, so those details are not documented here. Controversies, rule changes and milestones are also absent from the source.
For wider context, and not as a claim about the Cup itself, Weedmaps dates the rise of rosin pressing to around 2015, when it caught on with small hashmakers and people extracting at home2. In place of agitating and filtering resin, the method relies on heat and pressure2. That is general craft background, useful for understanding the world the Cup sits in.
03Culture and Community
The listing presents the Cup as a place where leading producers and innovators in the solventless sector can network and display what they make1. Trade networking gets its own slot, a B2B Industry Night, for meeting brands and industry leaders1. The event also includes a People's Choice Awards1. According to the listing, the event highlights advances in solventless methods such as sifting, ice water extraction and pressing1.
Some general craft background, none of it specific to the Cup. Weedmaps traces deliberate hand-rubbing of resin from live plants, known as charas, to around 800 AD2. It credits Dutch hashmaker Mila Jansen with introducing tools in the 1990s and early 2000s that made resin collection more consistent2. It also names Frenchy Cannoli among the educators and hashmakers who contributed to modern bubble hash techniques2.
04The Cup Today
The 2025 Solventless Cup is listed for 10 to 12 July 2025 at Ironworks, 49 Illinois St, Buffalo, New York, and described as taking place in Western New York1. The listing frames it as a celebration of the best solventless cannabis products1. As of 29 October 2026 those dates have passed, and the page carries no publication date of its own, so how current it is is not documented.
The programme is more than a contest. It lists an expo, educational speaker panels, music performances and an awards gala1. Brands can take part in the expo to present themselves to cannabis enthusiasts and potential partners1.
05What Comes Next
No announced plans for editions after 2025 were found in the sources gathered for this page. Dates, venues or formats for any later Solventless Cup are therefore not documented here.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 53 results from this cup across 3 years (2024 to 2026), 17 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 818 Headband | Live Rosin | Grow Space Killa |
| 2025 | Peach Pie | Ice/Water Hash | Trout Hash |
| 2025 | Gmo | Traditional Hash | Static Room |
| 2025 | Animal Face | Rosin Cart | Rythm |
| 2024 | Big Foot Glue | Hash | Red Leaf Cultivation |
| 2024 | Kitchen Sink | Solventless Cart | Juicy Concentrates |
Editions on record
- 2024 · Buffalo, NY, USA
- 2025 · Iron Works, Buffalo, NY, USA
Sources
- Solventless Cup | Distru
- A history of solventless concentrates: From traditional hash to modern rosin | Weedmaps
Written from the sources above and checked on 2026-10-29. Spot an error? Tell us on the contact page.