Success?
It's like weed light, less flavor same punch. Water cured on right, air cured on left.
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It's golden goat. Water took away most of the fuel/oily (neem) smell and left a more citrus note. From a smoke flavor it's kind of like reds vs. 100's (from what I can recall, having quit 20 years ago). The nugs look like they compressed more (or maybe shrank more is the right way to say it), they left airy spaces between nodes, where air cured tightened down to more of a rock. It dried out much faster when pulled from the water than fresh trimmed bud dries when cut. It actually speeds the process a little, I'm still waiting for air cured buds that were cut at the same time to get "smokable".
There is probably a happy medium for each strain/user. I'd like to slow down the final drying and maybe try fewer days in water. It had a real acrid eye watering funk on about day 4 or 5 that was mostly gone by day 7.
Lesser know fact coors light finishes brewing at some thing like 9-10 percent before it is "cold filtered". It is yummy too, wish they would sell coors fat.